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| Welcome To Midwest Fine Arts On The Web |
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 MidWest Fine Arts is a regional leader in art packing, crating, transfer, and all varieties of handling and supplements these services with experienced monograph, catalogue, and paper collection relocation capabilities. MidWest has established its reputation by combining an intimate knowledge of the art world and the science of conveying everything from the smallest of paintings on canvas to massive installations of brick and steel.
Many art galleries, private collections, museums, and conservatories also boast an impressive array of printed material. Books, both circulatory and rare, manuscripts, art catalogues, and various periodicals and manuals often augment the striking works of art that collectors, curators, and conservators hold so dear.
MidWest offers a veritable one-stop shopping experience for those seeking art handling and transportation needs. Combining award-winning expertise in the art genre with a stable of experienced collection and library movers offers the customer a truly unique opportunity to solve all of their delicate moving needs.
The library movers associated with MidWest have relocated art libraries, university libraries (including thousands of rare books requiring special attention), municipal libraries (featuring antiquated local history material and original maps and charters), and private collections. MidWest’s combination of astute art handling and sagacious collection relocation services represents a delectable and smart solution to the starving artist and keen collector alike.
- Complete fine arts shipping services
- Climate controlled, team operated, dedicated truck and shuttle route transportation & shipping service
- GPS equipped trucks
- Museum quality crating and fine art object preparatory services
- Installation, de-installation & art handling services
- Exhibition space planning & renovation
- National & world-wide service
- Modern temperature controlled storage facilities
- Museum and gallery relocation planning services
- Emergency disaster & recovery service for special collections
- Relocation service & consulting for libraries, archives, wine, and all special collections
Thank you for visiting Midwest Fine Arts on the World Wide Web. We hope your visit is helpful and informative. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or need any additional information for the relocation services you require.
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| MWFA FAST Magazine :: Latest News & Articles |
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Welcome to our portal magazine where we have gathered interesting and informative news and articles from a wide range of sources which we hope you will find instructive and enjoyable. Please visit our Magazine Home Page to browse and comment on all our magazine news.
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Cleveland, OH – A trio of art handling specialists from MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation, LLC, complimented by their rigging colleagues, the Norris Brothers, stopped traffic on busy Carnegie Avenue on a recent August Saturday to move the monumental sculpture, "Three for One." The sculpture was the creation of Dennis L. Jones, the renowned artist and Director of the School of Art at the University of Arizona. The move took place on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic and forced the...
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YOUNGSTOWN, OH - MidWest F.A.S.T. was the fine art transport company hired to collect and move the exhibition pieces for "AGENCY: Art and Advertising" currently at The McDonough Museum of Art on the campus of Youngstown State University. This will open its 2008/2009 exhibition season and will be featured in the galleries at the Museum beginning September 19 and continues through November 8, 2008. An opening reception will be held on Friday, September 19 from 6-8pm. This event, and the...
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OXFORD, Ohio – MidWest F.A.S.T. recently moved the “Philip Morsberger: A Retrospective,” exhibition of the artist’s works from the 1960s to the present assembled by the Morris Museum of Art to the Miami University (Ohio) Art Museum, from the artist’s studio in Augusta, Georgia. Morsberger describes his work as a continuum of “color, craft and things theological.” Curated by Miami's curator of collections, Edna Southard, the Morsberger show and exhibition catalog include 19 of his early...
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Seattle – MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. LLC recently moved Brian Tolle’s “Stronghold” for the University of Washington campus from the artist’s studio in New York. Brian Tolle, best known for his city-block-sized Irish Hunger Memorial project in Battery Park City, completed this monumental work of sculpture for the University of Washington campus in Seattle. Stronghold (2007) is a 23-foot diameter effigy of the base of a massive old-growth tree, like the ones that may have...
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St. Louis, Missouri - MidWest F.A.S.T team van operators and fine art moving specialists Kirk Lanning and Shawn Marcum recently transported a collection of large-scale paintings by LA-based artist Thaddeus Strode from the international air freight terminals at O’Hare Airport to the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis. The show called Thaddeus Strode: Absolutes and Nothings is curated by Sabine Eckmann, director and chief curator, and Meredith Malone,...
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Columbus, OH – MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. LLC of Lorain, OH recently moved an exhibition that included Claude Monet paintings from Columbus, Ohio to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The collected works were subsequently shipped to Paris for Masterpiece International.
Veteran van operators and art handlers Dave Boughton and John V. Carney, along with traveling couriers and a follow car armada transferred the exhibition celebrating the influential Impressionist...
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| CMCN Magazine Spotlight |
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Songs For Sale is Music to Our Ears
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Carney-McNicholas, Inc. Fine Art Transfer and Handling Service recently completed a successful relocation of David Salle’s massive original oil on canvas, “Songs for Sale,” from the Key Building in Cleveland, Ohio to an exhibition in New York City....
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