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, ....

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 ....

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 ....

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 ....

MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. LLC just completed the shipping leg of the Arms and Armor from Imperial Austria traveling exhibition for Masterpiece International. This exhibition of about 280 items includes examples of the armorer’s craft, including imperial suits of armor, from this important historic collection. These spectacular examples of armor and weapons offers a comprehensive overview of arms and armor produced in ....

CLEVELAND - A 1975 Lincoln Continental Mark IV once owned by Elvis Presley arrived at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum on Thursday January 31 inside a climate controlled Carney-McNicholas, Inc. United Van Lines moving van. The move was arranged by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame through Mayflower Transit agent MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. LLC of Lorain, Ohio. Moving industry veteran driver Kirk Lanning and co-driver Shawn ....

Oberlin, OH – Midwest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. recently was called on to move the monumental Claes Oldenburg sculpture, “Giant Three-Way Plug,” from its home at the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio to the Intermuseum Conservation Association in Cleveland for conservation treatment.

The sculpture is made of Core Ten steel and bronze and weighs an estimated three thousand pounds. It is ....

Big Rapids, Michigan – MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. LLC recently moved the exhibition Hateful Things from Ferris State University to Virginia State University. The exhibition is part of celebrations planned for Black History month at Virginia State and opens Monday, Feb. 11 and will be returned to the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State after a two week run.

The 39-piece, traveling exhibition contains pictures, ....

Lorain, OH - MidWest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co. LLC recently moved two stops of "The Graphic Imperative: International Posters of Peace, Social Justice and the Environment 1965-2005”. In December the exhibition moved from the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University Los Angeles in a Carney-McNicholas, Inc. United Van Lines agent van with company contractor and veteran van operator Jason Rauscher to the School ....

MidWest Fine Arts Services and Transportation Co. completed the relocations of the outdoor sculpture collection for Akron Art Museum as they prepared for the grand opening of their new wing. MidWest art handlers Andy and Keith Rock, working closely with Akron Art Museum Registrar Arnie Tunstall and his crew of handlers, along with MidWest F.A.S.T. equipment operator Tim Carney and Carney-McNicholas flat bed driver Dan Fernback worked two days ....

AKRON, OH – MidWest Fine Arts recently completed the moving and installation of the Claes Oldenburg piece “Soft Inverted Q”. Soft Inverted Q is a life-size painted concrete and resin sculpture weighing about 3 1/2 tons and measuring 72 inches high, 70 inches wide and 63 inches deep. The “Q” was at ICA in Cleveland for conservation work while construction in Akron was going on. It is typical of ....

CLEVELAND, OH CMCN’s MidWest FAST recently moved two inspiring textile objects: historical United States flags. Interestingly enough, they were moved to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The mission of the center is to “reveal stories about freedom’s heroes, from the era of the Underground Railroad to contemporary times, challenging and inspiring everyone to take courageous steps for freedom today.” ....

Cleveland, Ohio - CMCN’s crew of dedicated art handlers, packers, and conveyers was hired to relocate the outdoor sculpture Urns installed in the outdoor public space in the heart of downtown Cleveland known as "Mall B". After being selected for the 2003 International Call for Artists competition, Brian Tolle created the 2-year, temporary public art sculpture, "For the Gentle Wind Doth Move Silently, Invisibly," on commission ....

IN 1906, J.V. McNICHOLAS PULLED HIS HORSE- drawn wagon up to the railroad tracks along the banks of the Mahoning River for the first time. He must have wondered what the future would bring.

After all, he had just left his job at the steel mill, borrowed $100 from his mother and bought two horses and two wagons so he could deliver goods that were unloaded from the trains in downtown Youngstown.

He was gambling that freight hauling had a bright ....

Cleveland, Ohio (Sept. 12, 2006)- Carney-McNicholas, Inc. of Berea, Ohio has announced it has acquired Midwest Fine Art Services and Transportation, also known as Midwest F.A.S.T. of Kipton, Ohio. Midwest F.A.S.T. was founded in 1990 by Marvin Fannin who saw a specific need from his position as Technical Shop Supervisor at the Oberlin College Art Department and the Allen Art Museum in the regional transportation market for specialized art handlers ....

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. The postmodernist’s piece, composed of 17 individual 5’x10’ panels, was hung 30 feet above the lobby floor and removed by a combination of mechanical lifting equipment ....

Carney-McNicholas, Inc. recently moved the Indian Museum of Lake County from its former home, a brick house in Painesville on the campus of Lake Erie College, to its new location on school grounds in Willoughby, Ohio.

The move, completed by six CM movers over the course of one long day, was unlike any others for the veteran movers. “We moved rocks that were used to shape other rocks. Totem poles, buffalo heads, stuffed bears… just ....

LORAIN, OH - Carney-McNicholas’ MidWest Fine Art Services and Transportation division is pleased to announce that moving industry veteran and long-time Carney-McNicholas, Inc. employee has invested in and is now owner-operator of a new climate controlled Freightliner Sprinter van. The van is equipped to move temperature sensitive art-work between exhibitions, to and from collectors or conservators, and is especially useful in serving art ....

John Carney, a Carney-McNicholas, Inc. fifth generation mover, attended a UniGroup sponsored “boot camp” training recently to improve customer service practices and customer service leadership skills. CMCN and affiliated company Midwest Fine Art Service and Transportation Co., LLC belong to quite a transportation organization. They are each part of an industry leading major van line. CMCN is part of United Van Lines, the country’s ....

AKRON, OHIO - Carney-McNicholas, Inc. owned MidWest Fine Arts Services and Transportation Company, in collaboration with Andy Rock Fine Arts, LLC recently completed the relocation of the Akron Art Museum’s -- www.akronartmuseum.org -- entire collection of Stieglitz, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Weegee and other internationally known artists work from storage at the Intermuseum Conservation Association --www.ica-artconservation.org ....