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Ted
Cooper
2727-29TH ST. N.W. # 504, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20008-5545
TEL: 202-965-3800 FAX: 202-265-3395 EMAIL: ted.cooper@mindspring.com
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| PROFESSIONAL
HISTORY & CREDENTIALS |
| EDUCATION |
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Muskingum
College, New Concord, OH 1961-1965
Bachelor
of Arts, 1965 Major: Art History Studies
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 1965-1967
Graduate
Studies in the History of Art
with
Teaching Fellowship 1965, 1966, 1967
George Washington University, Washington, DC
Graduate
Special Studies in the History of Art 1967-1969
Georgetown University, Continuing Education Program
1994
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| EXPERIENCE |
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Assistant
Professor, Muskingum College and Indiana University
various
Art History courses 1964-1967
Director, The Studio Gallery, Washington, DC 1968-1969
Assistant Director, Adams Davidson & Co., Washington,
DC 1969-1971
President and Owner, Adams Davidson Galleries, Inc.,
1971 - present
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| PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS |
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President,
American Society of Appraisers, Washington Chapter,
1983-1984
Member, Board of Examiners, American Society
of Appraisers 1982-83
President, Washington Art Dealers Association,
Washington, DC 1981- 1987,
1991-1993
Senior Member, American Society of Appraisers
1978-present
(Senior
Member Recertification in 1984,1991,1996, 2001)
Senior Valuer, International Institute
of Valuers 1981- present
Board of Directors, Archives of American
Art, 1980 - 1986
Member and Donor, Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC
1980-present
Member, Art Dealers Association of America,
1988 - present
Sponsoring Member, Smithsonian American
Art Museum, 1992-present
Circle Member and Donor, National Gallery
of Art, 1996-present
Board of Directors, Washington Art Dealers
Association, 1987-1991, 1993-1997
Certified Member, Appraisers Association
of America, 1997-present
Board of Directors, Art Dealers Association
of Greater Washington, 1997- 2003
Personal Property Committee Member, American
Society of Appraisers,
Washington, D.C. Chapter, 2001-present
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| PUBLISHED
WORKS |
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Minerva
Chapman: A Retrospective Exhibition, H.K.Press,
Washington,
D.C., 1971
French Classicism in the 19th
Century, H.K.Press,
Washington,
D.C., 1972
The French Impressionists and
Their Followers, H.K.Press,
Washington,
D.C., 1971
Contemporary American Genre Painting,
H.K.Press,
Washington,
D.C., 1972
William Broadhead, H.K. Press,
Washington, D.C., 1972
100 Years of American
Painting 1840-1940, H.K. Press,
Washington,
D.C., 1973
August F. Lundberg: A Retrospective
Exhibition,
Hoechstetter
Printing Co., Pittsburgh, 1974
A Selection
of Important Works on Paper by American Artists
of the
19th
& 20th Century, Evans Publishing Co.,1975
Bonnard and Vuillard: An Exhibition for the Benefit
of the Phillips Collection,
Evans
Publishing Co., 1978
Portraits of Places:
A Survey of 19th Century American Paintings,
Museum
Press, Washington, D.C.,1979
I.M. Pei &
Partners, Drawings for the East Building, National
Gallery of Art: Its Evolution in Sketches, Renderings
and Models,1968-1978, Good Impression
Publishers, Washington, D.C.,1979
Edgar Nye
Reconsidered, Museum Press, Washington, D.C.,1979
Delight and Deception: Important American Still-Life
Painting, 1850- 1890, Museum Press, Washington,
D.C.,1979
American Art in the Barbizon Tradition, Museum
Press, Washington, D.C.,1979
Works on Paper
from Thomas Cole to Andrew Wyeth, Good Impression
Publishers, 1980
American Luminism, Garamond
Pridemark Publishing, Baltimore, Md.,1980
The
American Landscape, A Century Later, Museum
Press, 1980
A Retrospective Exhibition of
Jervis McEntee, Museum Press, 1980
Washington
Collects: Important American Art in Washington Collections,
Garamond Pridemark Press, Baltimore,
1981
Legacy of the Hudson River School, 1860-1880,
Garamond Pridemark Press, Baltimore, Md.,1981
Quiet Places: The American Landscapes of Worthington
Whittredge, (co-authored by Cheryl Cibulka),
Garamond
Pridemark
Press,1982
Marble and Bronze: 100 Years of
American Sculpture 1840-1940, Garamond Pridemark
Press, 1984
The Artist as Explorer: Luminist
Visions of 19th Century America, Museum Press,
Washington, D.C., 1986
Masters of the American
Landscape: Cole, Gifford, Heade, Church and Kensett,
Garamond Pridemark Press,
1986
Masters of the Medium: Important American Drawings,
Pastels and Watercolors, Museum Press, Washington,
D.C.,1988
Allen Philbrick Rediscovered: An Exhibition of
Paintings and Etchings from 1905 to 1936, Museum
Press, 1988
Explorations of an American Impressionist:
The Art of Wilson Irvine (1869-1936), (co-authored
by Cheryl Cibulka
Gordon),
Garamond Pridemark Press, 1990
Intimate and
Visionary: 200 Years of American Master Drawings,
1790-1990, Weadon Publishing, 1990
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| QUOTED
OR CITED
IN THE MEDIA |
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"Still
Lifes by Minerva Chapman," The Georgetowner,
Sept.19, 1973
"Group Show Month,"
The Washington Post, August 5, 1974, p. B6
"Galleries," The Washington Post, October
21, 1975
"Careful Appraising is
Essential for a Collection," Antiques Monthly,
June 1977
"Washington's 2nd Million
Dollar Dealer: Ted Cooper of Adams Davidson
Galleries,"The
Washington Art Newsletter, December 1977
"Design Process of East Building seen in sketches,"The
Washington Star,
January
6, 1979, p.C-2
"Galleries File,"
The Washington Post, May 4, 1979
"Delightful Discoveries," The Washington
Star, July 8, 1979, p.E-2
"Washington
Gallery Boom - The Rush to Invest," The Washington
Post,
January
20, 1980
"The Man Behind the Luminist
Show: One of a New Breed," The Washington
Post,
February 17, 1980
"Sketchy Delights,"
The Washington Post, April 26, 1980
"The Light-Brigade of American Art-Record
Sales for Luminist Paintings," The
Washington
Post, June 5, 1980
"Know-Nothing Dealer,"
The Washington Post, July 13, 1980
"Withheld Within," The Washington Post,
October 18, 1980, p.B9
"Artists
Immersed in American Wilderness," The Georgetowner,
Nov.4,1980
"A Century's Pleasure
in Washington Collections," The Washington Star,
March
1, 1981
"Washington's Very Best Art Galleries,"
Washingtonian Magazine,
September
1981
"Around and About at the Galleries,"
The Georgetowner, Oct.30,1981
The Bargain Hunter's Guide to Art Collecting,
by Steve Naifeh, Quill Publishing,
1982
"Whittredge's Quiet Places," The Washington
Post, May 1, 1982
"Long-Lost
Masterpiece Rediscovered" (front page), The Washington
Post,
November
17, 1983
"Rediscovered Cole Goes to Texas," Art
News, February 1984, p.20
"Erastus Salisbury Field," The Washington
Post, July 12, 1984
"The Status of Statues," The Washington
Post, October 13, 1984
"Sain's True Colors." The Washington Post,
November 9, 1985
"Views on Hudson River Painters to be Heard
in Art Center Series," The Journal
News,
Tannersville, N.Y., May 17, 1985
"Beauty and the Budget: Building a Corporate
Art Collection" by Michael Shaw,
U.S.
Chamber of Commerce newsletter Business Action
Network:
Washington
Watch, November, 1985
"A National Treasure of Art" The Orlando
Sentinel, May 9, 1986
"Art Dealers Honor Adelyn Breeskin," The
InTowner, July 1986
"The Poirers' Echoes of the Ancients," The
Washington Post, Oct.25, p.G-2
"19th and Early 20th Century American Art-The
Boom Continues," Art News,
December
1986
"Investing in American Art," The Nightly
Business Report PBS Television
(national),
December 2, 1986
"Washington: A Public City with a Private
Heart," Art and Auction, January
1987
"Shifting the Focus to Antique Frames," The
Washington Post, Washington Home
Section,
January 19, 1987
"ASA Stars on
Public TV," Newsline, American Society of
Appraisers, April,
1987,
p.4
"Daniel Terra's $35 Million Gamble,"
The Washington Post, April 21, 1987
"The Art of Running a Successful D.C. Gallery,"
The Washington Post, June 29,
1987,
Business Section
"Painters as Explorers
in the Catskills," The Windham Journal, July
16, 1987
"The Softest Stroke,"
Washingtonian Magazine, August, 1987, p.72-74
"Art Advisory Panel Accepted More Appraisals
in 1986," The ArtNewsletter,
September
15, 1987, pp. 6-7
"Painting Reproduction
Gingerly Hung at Library," The Frederick News-Post,
February
26, 1988
"'Old Masters' at Adams Davidson."
The Washington Post, May 7, 1988, p.C2
"Old and Modern Masters From the Collection
of Ted Cooper,"
Muskingum
College Palmer Gallery Inaugural Exhibition, March
8, 1989
(Catalogue).
"American Landscapes Through
Different Media," The Washington Post,
June 6,
1989
"The Quiet Collectors, Washington
is a Big League Town" Museum & Arts
Washington,
September/October 1989, p 70-71, 86-87.
"The Scene's Prosperous Year," The Washington
Post, Dec. 30, 1989, p. D2.
"Back
to the Future: Washington's Experts Predict." Museum
& Arts Washington,
January/February
1990, pp. 41-47.
An Exhibition of Paintings
by A.F.Lundberg, Washington County Museum
of Fine
Arts, Hagerstown, Md. (Catalogue) p.2
"National
Gallery May Get Mount's 'Power of Music'," The
Washington Post,
October
18, 1990, pp. B1, B6.
"Newsmakers," Washington
Business, The Washington Post, September
16,1991
"Middendorf Gallery's Bleak Picture," The
Washington Post, October 31,1991
"The Twice-Sold Painting," The Washington
Post, December 16, 1991
"Local
Galleries Hit By Rash of Thefts," The Washington
Post, February 19, 1992
"Master
Strokes," Where Magazine, April, 1992, p.8.
"Doing the Galleries." Washington Life,
April-May, 1992, p.26
"Past and
Present,"Adams Davidson Galleries current still
life exhibition,
'Around
Town' WETA/PBS TV program feature, May 7,
1992
"The Learning Curve," The
Washington Post Home, Aug. 29, 1996, p. 9
"Trompe and Nostalgic Circumstance," The
Washington Post, June 6, 1992, p.C2
"More Middendorf Muddle" Art & Auction,
p.16, June, 1992
"Faux Finish to
Coy Canvas, Trompe L'Oeil is the Thing," Antique
and Arts
Weekly,
p. 68, May 29,1992
"Picky Buyers in Tight
Market," The Washington Post (Home), September
3,
1992,
p.12
"Art Ownership Case Settled," The
Washington Post, October 15, 1992
"It's no little thing when an art gallery
bucks a trend and moves to bigger digs",
The
Washington Times, p.E1, February 9, 1993
"Ted Cooper to Judge May Membership Show",
The Art League, Tidings,
May
issue, 1993.
"Painted into a Corner,"
The Washingtonian, June, 1993, p.48
"Member Notes", Washington, D.C. Chapter
Newsletter, American Society
of
Appraisers October, 1993, p.3
"Christie's
American Art Sale Signals Strength,"The Maine
Antique Digest,
August,
1994, p.36-C
"Art Dealers to Talk with
Artists, Review Portfolios," Corcoran School of
Art, The
Rag, Vol.4, No.4, September, 1994, p. 3
"Framed for Fraud", ABC-TV Investigative Report
on Consumer Awareness
about
art fraud, aired November 21-22, 1995.
"Ted
Cooper - June All Media Judge", The Art League,
Tidings, June 1996
"Class
Act", The Washington Post [Home], August
28, 1997, p.9
"People...", Washington
Conservation Guild Newsletter, Vol.21, 1997,p.7.
Who's Who in American Art [annual,
1986 - present]
"Strong Showings for
American Art", The Artnewsletter, Dec. 15,
1998
"Washington Leaps into the Millennium",
ADAGW Newsletter,
Summer,1999
“Metamorphosen, der Kunsthandel im Internet”, Weltkunst Magazine, Heft
10 September 15, 1999, p. 1696-98.
“Connoisseur's World: The Art Market”, Town and Country magazine,
December, 1999, p. 128ff.
“Capitol Shopping”, Art & Antiques magazine, March, 2000 p. 145
“Buying Good Art”, Washingtonian magazine, April, 2000 p.116
“Bulging Inventories Are Making Retailers Skittish, Ready to Deal”, The
Wall Street Journal , ‘Home Front', April 13, 2001
“Members in the News”, ASA DC Chapter Newsletter, Nov. 2001, pgs. 2, 5 |
| SPEAKER
AND PANELIST |
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"Seventeen
Criteria for Establishing the Value of a Work of
Art," Fine Arts Forum,
American
Society of Appraisers, Mt. Vernon College, Washington
DC, March
26, 1977
"Difficulties in Appraising 19th
Century American Paintings," International
Appraisal
Conference, A.S.A., Hershey, Pa., June 28-30, 1978
"The Importance of Important American Art,"
The Times Club of Potomac MD,
January
14, 1980
"Symposium on Escalating Personal
Property Values," A.S.A., DC Chapter, Fort
McNair,
Washington DC, April 16, 1980
"Inside
Washington's Best Art Galleries," Smithsonian Institution
Resident
Associates
Program, Washington DC, April 16, 1980
"Investing
in American Art," The Harvard Business School Club
of Washington
DC,
December 12, 1980
"Rediscovering American
Art," Fine Arts Forum, American Society of Appraisers
co-sponsored
by The George Washington University, May 9,
1981
"Critical Problems Facing the Appraiser of
American Paintings," Regional
Conference
and Seminar, American Society of Appraisers,
Winston-Salem
NC, March 25-27, 1982
"Connoisseurship and Collecting 19th Century
American Art," American Art
Council,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, April 25, 1982
"Practices and Pitfalls of Appraisals, Donations
and Art Contracts," speaker and
panelist:
Fine Art Symposiumsponsored by George Washington
Univ.
and Washington Art Dealers Assoc. September 29,
1984
"The Educated Eye: Connoisseurship in the
Visual and Decorative Arts,"
Smithsonian
Institution Resident Associate Lecture Series, October
28, 1986
(audiotaped)
"The Artist as Explorer: Luminist Visions
of Nineteenth Century America,"
Washington
Art Dealers Association Lectures for the Phillips
Collection,
October 21, 1986
"The Artists Who Explored the Catskills,"
lecture delivered to the Greene County
Mountain
Top Historical Society, Onteora Club, Tannersville,
New
York,
July 23, 1987
"Appraising the Damage: Why Condition is Crucial
to the Valuation Process,"
lecture
sponsored by the Washington Conservation Guild,
National
Museum of American History, April 7, 1988
"Instant Expertise and the Appraisal Conspiracy,"
lecture delivered to the Art
South
Fall Seminar, Washington, DC, October 21, 1988
"Works on Paper," speaker and juror at The
Art League Alexandria,
Virginia,
November 9, 1989
"The Money Market of Paintings: Investing
in Art," lecture delivered to the
Resident
Associates program of the Smithsonian Institution,
Washington,
D.C., February 5, 1990
"A Symposium on the Proper Handling, Care,
and Preservation of Art on Paper,"
host
and speaker, Adams Davidson Galleries, Washington,
D.C.,
November
14, 1990
"How to Establish the Value of a Work of Art
or an Item of Personal Property
When There
Are No Comparables. The Importance of Condition
in the
Evaluation Process," lectures delivered to the American
Society
of Appraisers,Washington, D.C. chapter, May 7, 1991
"Connoisseurship and Collecting in Washington,
D.C," Smithsonian
Institution
Resident sponsored by the Washington Art Dealers
Association,
April 16, 1992 (audiotaped)
Juror, Sumner
School Museum Watercolor Exhibition, March 8-9,
1993
Juror, The Art League, Alexandria,
Va. [700 entries] May 5, 1993
Portfolio
review, Corcoran School of Art graduating Seniors,
March, 1995,
March, 1996
Juror, The Art League, Alexandria,
Va. [675 entries] June 4, 1996
Juror,
1996 Open Exhibition, Arts Council of Fairfax County
[372 entries],
Nov.
4, 1996
"Appraisals, Good Documentation
& Digital Photography" Nov. 5, 1996
presentation
for Smithsonian Associates, Campus on the Mall,
Ripley
Center, Washington, D.C.
"Trompe L'oeil"
National Conference, Appraisers Assoc. of America,
November
14-17,
1996, New York (conference participant)
"Valuating
Artwork: Science or Magic?" Inaugural address to
the International Monetary
Fund Society, Washington, DC, April 7, 1999
"New Parameters for Personal Property Appraisers
in the Digital Millennium" address
to the Washington, DC Chapter of American
Society
of Appraisers, May 4, 1999.
Panelist, 1999
ADAGW Symposium: "Art at the Milennium", Omni
Shoreham
Hotel, Washington, DC, Oct. 2, 1999
Guest Appraiser, FOX TVNEWS, “Trash or Treasure”, July 21, 2000, 6-9am
“American Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors” Appraisal Studies in Fine
and Decorative Arts, New York Univ. N.Y., May 16-20, 2001 (conference participant)
Lecturer, “Difficult Appraisal Assignments”, ASA Fine Art Symposium, The
Arts Club of Washington, Oct. 9, 2001
“Art & Cultural Property: Provenance; Due Diligence; Legal and Ethical
Issues”, ASA Conference, Oct. 7-8, 2002 (conference participant)
“Collecting and Connoisseurship”, Smithsonian Associates Masters
Program Nov. 18, 2003, Ripley Center |
| SELECTED
APPRAISAL ASSIGNMENTS |
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The
White House
The National Gallery of Art
The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia
(entire
collection)
United States Department of State, Diplomatic Reception
Rooms & Blair House
United States Department of Defense, Pentagon
(entire
collection)
United States National Park Service (entire collection)
The American University, Washington, D.C.
(entire
collection, 843 pictures)
The United States Information Agency
(entire
collection,1643 pictures)
The Washington National Cathedral
National
Institutes of Health., Foundation for Advanced Education
in
the
Sciences, Bethesda, Md. (entire collection)
Ruskin Collection at Phoenix Art Museum (entire
collection)
Monticello, The Thomas
Jefferson Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia
The New York Historical Society, New York,
N.Y.
The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
(entire
collection, 3,366 pictures)
Federal Bureau
of Investigation, Washington, D.C. (authentication)
General Services Administration, Washington,
D.C.
National Building Museum,
Washington, D.C.
George Washington
University, Washington, D.C.
permanent
collection, Dimock Art Gallery
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
The Barnett-Aden Collection, B.E.T.,Inc. (entire collection)
United States Supreme Court
United States Customs Service
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
Gunston Hall Plantation, Lorton, Va.
The Rockefeller Foundation, New York
The National Academy of Sciences, Wash.D.C. (entire collection)
Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore
Anacostia Museum and Center of African-American History & Culture
Walter Reed Army Medical Center Institute of Pathology
United States Navy, Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.
Dickinson College, New Carlisle, Pa.
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
St. Mary's College of Maryland, Md. (authentications)
U.S. General Services Administration (authentication, appraisal)
Tudor Place Historic House & Gardens, Washington, D.C.
We have also, over the last 30 years, appraised hundreds of prominent local and national private collections.
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| PROFESSIONAL
APPOINTMENTS |
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Appointed
by Secretary of the Treasury to serve on the Art
Advisory Panel
of
the Internal Revenue Service, 1984, 1985, 1986
Appointed to Advisory Committee of the Hereward
Lester Cooke
Foundation,
1985-1989
Elected President, Washington
Art Dealers Association 1981-83,
1983-85,
1985-87, 1991-93.
Elected Secretary and
Board Member, Washington Art Dealers
Association
1993-1997
Elected Board Member, Art Dealers
Association of Greater Washington
1997-1999
Appointed to the Advisory Board, Society to
Prevent Trade in Stolen
Art
1999-present
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| TEACHING
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Faculty,
Appraisal Studies program, George Washington University,
Center
for Career Education, Spring, I & II/Fall, I & II
1995 to
present: "Looking at Pictures: Science or Magic?"
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American, 1859 - 1924
The Grand Canal, Venice
Watercolor
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