Press Room:
Collectors Show and Sale opens at Arkansas Arts Center on October 31

For more information contact:
Emily Fraize, 501-396-0308
efraize@arkarts.com
September 8, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Collectors Show and Sale opens at Arkansas Arts Center on October 31

(LITTLE ROCK, AR) - The 35th Annual Collectors Show and Sale debuts at the Arkansas Arts Center on Friday, October 31 and runs through Sunday, January 11, 2004.

Over 160 pieces of fine art from approximately 15 prominent New York galleries will be on view in the Sam Strauss Gallery. The exhibition features a selection of work from the Renaissance to the Contemporary. In between are significant artists including Pierre Bonnard, Robert Cottingham and Susan Hauptman. Brian Young, curator, describes the show as "a chance for Arkansas Arts Center visitors to view a slice of the national drawing market."

This is one of the few shows at the Arkansas Arts Center where visitors are given the opportunity to purchase the works on view. The Collectors Show and Sale introduces emerging artists in order to show the trends coming out of New York. The most notable aspects of the exhibition, which places special emphasis on drawings, are quality and variety.

GENERAL INFORMATION
Contact: 501-372-4000
Location: Arkansas Arts Center - 9th and Commerce, Little Rock, AR 72202
Free Admission.
Gallery Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday
Closed Monday and major holidays

Sponsors:
Chucki and Curt Bradbury Belinda and Robert L. Shults