The Artist-Gallery Partnership: A Practical Guide to Consigning Art

by Tad Crawford

Essential reading for artists, art dealers, and gallery owners, The Artist-Gallery A Practical Guide to Consigning Art offers a unique and thorough discussion of consignment that clarifies all aspects of this crucial art world relationship. The book presents a provision-by-provision explanation of the Standard Art Consignment Agreement, a model contract between artist and dealer suitable for use. The contract is flexible, making it ideal for establishing consignment arrangements that are mutually beneficial. It covers agency, consignment, warranties, transportation responsibilities, insurance coverage, pricing, gallery's commission, promotion, return of art, and much more.

Genres: Business, Art, Reference

197 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

My new novel, A Woman in the Wild, has just been published by Arcade Publishing (distributed by Simon & Schuster).
The novel tells of Thea, a psychologist in crisis who leaves her established practice in the city for an open-ended retreat in the mountains at the Institute for Healing and Transformation. Feeling lost, betrayed, and stricken by guilt not to have saved her daughter from sexual abuse, she hopes to find a new path to ease her pain and uncertainties. Soon after her arrival, a “wild” man who roamed the forest with a bear is brought to the institute. When the man is given to her care, she performs a suspenseful balancing as she seeks to heal him as well as herself. Hiking and meditating each day, she initiates an inner journey that shakes her free from the familiar. As the months pass, she engages her guilt and sorrow, confronts her failures, weighs the limits of therapy and self-forgiveness, and seeks to unleash the healing powers of the unconscious and of love.

I'm happy to do book clubs and library talks about the novel.

Reviews

[Eva Weiss · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned much up to page 67. The rest of the book is a reference. I read up on my states’s laws and identified those with more and less protection for artists against galleries’s creditors. I heard of a gallery just seizing consigned artwork and had no idea- before reading this book- that this is actually legal in many states, like New Jersey.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fairly helpful in dealing with the legalities of art consignment. However, over half of the book is a state-by-state breakdown of consignment laws and acts! Pages 68-176 are purely each states laws, etc, so much of this info will be completely useless to the reader. It seems this info would be better found at the time needed, as it might change, takes up he majority of the book, and could possibly contain serious typos. I would reference my own state's website when needed. Should have been a much shorter length.