Anahita
Gallery, Inc.
Fine
art, photography & textiles from Central Asia.
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Anahita
International Photography specializes in 19th to 21st century international
photography with a focus on Russia and Central Asia. Our Canyon Road gallery
shows artists from early Soviet modernists to underground artists from
the 1960s and 1970s and straight edge contemporary work by Russia's top
art photographers. We supply ethnographic and art photography from Uzbekistan,
Tibet, Africa, Japan, and the USA.
We provide reliable, expert appraisal services for insurance, museum donations, identification, and loss for all forms of art from Central Asia and the surrounding regions, including antiquities, Islamic art, metalwork, ceramics, carpets, kilims, ikat, embroideries and other textile arts. We have substantial experience in documenting and valuing collections, both for private collectors and insurers. Call Andrew Hale at 505-231-7216 or email info@anahitagallery.com to discuss your appraisal needs.
Kate Fitz Gibbon, a nationally recognized specialist in collections management, provides professional collections consultation and management, from museum-level database documentation and web-based access to plain good advice. 505-412-2209 or info@anahitagallery.com.
In the gallery:
Vintage work by Bulla, Dudin, Eremin, Grinberg, Penson, Rodchenko, Shagin, Shokin, Zelma, and others. Contemporary Russian photographers include Boris Savelev, Sergei Gitman, Elena Darikovich, Alexander Lapin, Igor Moukhin, Alexander Slyusarev, Boris Smelov, and Maria Snigerevskaya. Other contemporary artists include Uzbekistan photographers Marat Baltibaev and Anatoly Rahimbaev, Irish photographer Trina McKillen and Colombian photographer Hector Acebes
Online:
Anahita Gallery online offers fine, collectors' textiles and ethnographic ornament from Central Asia. We also carry a wide variety of antique, mid-20th century and contemporary decorative wall-hangings and bedcovers (suzani). Ancient, ethnographic, and textile art shown by appointment. Skilled, experienced consulting and appraisal work related to ethnographic and ancient art, with a special focus on textiles.
Who we are:
Gallery
owners Andrew Hale and Kate Fitz Gibbon each have more than thirty years
of experience working in the art of Central Asia. They have published
numerous articles and three books on Central Asian art, focusing on photography,
urban and nomadic textiles, architectural materials, Islamic metalwork,
and the Central Asian Bronze Age. Their second book, Ikat: Silks of Central
Asia, The Guido Goldman Collection, received the George Wittenborn Memorial
Book Award for Best Art Book of 1997. A book on Central Asian embroidery
for the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts will be published in winter
2007.
Kate Fitz Gibbon works as a consultant and writer on collections management and cultural heritage issues. She served as a cultural property advisor to Presidents William Clinton and George W. Bush. She is editor and contributing author of Who Owns the Past? Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and the Law, Rutgers University Press, Rutgers Series on the Public Life of the Arts, September 2005.
Anahita International Photography
616 ½ B Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501 USA
505-231-7216
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textiles,
jewelry
ethno arts, Islamic arts, and
antiquities
textiles,
jewelry
ethno arts, Islamic arts, and
antiquities
textiles,
jewelry
ethno arts, Islamic arts, and
antiquities