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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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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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PITTSBURGH, PA: MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation, Co. agent for Mayflower Transit recently moved a major traveling exhibition organized by the Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh to JFK International for air forwarding to Seoul, Korea. In fact, according to Yoo Hee-Young, director of the Seoul Museum of Art, "This is probably the biggest Andy Warhol retrospective exhibition ever in Asia".
The exhibition offers highlights from Warhol's entire career...
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Cincinnati, OH - Tanya Hoggard started collecting letters, cards and artwork sent by children to New York City firefighters and rescue workers eight years ago in the aftermath of 9/11. As a volunteer at ground zero, she saw the power of the drawings and messages, many of them simple but heartfelt. She saw how they put smiles - if ever so briefly - on the faces of the weary workers searching the World Trade Center rubble. She eventually collected nearly 3 tons of such tributes and couldn't...
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MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. driver Alex Rivera and handlers Dennis Cleland and Nick Matos collected the exhibition pieces that bring together the rich holdings of contemporary African American art drawn from preeminent collections of contemporary art in the region - the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, the Akron Art Museum, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Progressive Corporation, and the Cleveland Museum of Art for display at the Museum of Contemporary Art...
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CLEVELAND,OH – MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation recently transported and installed a major work by the renowned minimalist sculptor Ronald Bladen (1918-1988). The work titled "Light Year (Garden)" 1979 is the first from an edition of three. The piece is made of painted aluminum, measuring 80" x 156" x 19" and weighs approximately 600lbs. The work was acquired by Director and Professor Emeritus Harvey Buchanan for the John and Mildred Putnam Sculpture Collection. The sculpture was...
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CLEVELAND - Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt, whose abstractions in metal have earned acclaim for decades, finds inspiration everywhere, but finds a fine art shipper in Lorain, Ohio. The Sculpture Center show, organized by director Ann Albano, is a revelation; and one of the best sculpture exhibitions in Cleveland in recent memory.
Hunt, 72, is an art-historical survivor. He is one of the last major living exponents of Abstract Expressionism, which reached its apex in the 1950s, when Hunt was...
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OBERLIN, OHIO – MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. recently re-installed the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s treasured Claes Oldenburg "Three Way Plug". The monumental Cor-Ten steel and bronze sculpture is a favorite landmark on the campus of Oberlin College and had been off view for over a year while undergoing conservation treatment at the Intermuseum Conservation Association in Cleveland.
You can review the article about Midwest FIne Arts de-installation of this work by...
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