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Don’t miss this informational conversation with art historian, dealer, auctioneer, collector, and addict James Bakker, on the joys and perils of collecting. Topics include acquisition and de-accession, galleries, art consultants, and auctions. We’ll also cover maintaining focus, accumulating versus collecting, framing, and using the internet to your advantage in your pursuits. Feel free to bring questions.
James R. Bakker opened the doors to his first antiques shop at the age of fifteen. He was an exhibitor at major antiques and art fairs throughout the country and a frequent advertiser in the American Art Review, Art & Auction and Antiques. Bakker has had galleries in Littleton, Boston, Provincetown and Cambridge.
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James R. Bakker is an auctioneer, private art dealer, appraiser, consultant and independent curator specializing in American paintings and prints, and a member of the Antiques Dealers' Association of America. Bakker graduated from Phillips Academy at Andover and attended Harvard University where he developed an interest in the fine arts. Bakker is a trustee and past President of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, former Executive Director of the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum, on the Town of Provincetown Art Commission, and the President of the Cape and Islands Historical Association.
For many years, Bakker specialized in the discovery and sale of furniture and pottery of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Together with Arts and Crafts historian and scholar Robert Edwards, Bakker mounted an important exhibition, Arcady to Byrdcliffe: The Whiteheads' Circle of Artists featuring important furniture and related objects at the Newbury Street gallery in 1999.
He curated numerous exhibitions including Provincetown Portraits-The First Eighty Years; Teachers-Artists with Schools in Provincetown; Frank Carson 1881-1968: A Retrospective; Jewels in the Collection; and Bernard Simon-1896-1980: A Retrospective at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. He also curated Memories of Provincetown- The Helen and Napi Van Dereck Collection at the Cape Cod Museum of Art; Picturing Provincetown at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum, Provincetown: A Creative Colony at the New Bedford Art Museum; and two retrospective exhibitions on the artist William H. Littlefield at the Cape Cod Museum of Art and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. www.bakkerart.com
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