I have an oil painting that I am trying to find more information about. ?

Question

I have an oil painting that I am trying to find more information about. The card with it says that it is registered with "The Rosewood Galleries, Inc." and it lists the artist as only Dunn. There is a registration number, but I have not been able to find anything other than a rosewood gallery in kettering ohio, but it does not seem to be what I am looking for. I would like to know if there are ways of figuring out who the artist is, and also where it came from. Thanks

Answer 1

If I'm not mistaken Rosewood Galleries, Inc is a faux subsidiary of Rosewood Furniture. That's why you couldn't find them listed separately on-line. They are based in Houston Texas. They are a large home furnishings company that also sell art in their showrooms. The registration number means it's the 2551st painting they bought wholesale to sell in their showcases.

The art they sell is generally decoration art, meaning it comes out of painting factories in either Mexico or Europe. These painting 'factories' have hundreds of artists working in them at a time, painting the art that appears in those "Original Oil Paintings Starting At $29,95' sales that you hear on late night commercials or the kind you see being sold on street corners or at many furniture stores or large shopping mall stores.

The artists aren't allowed to use their real names when working in the painting mills. Although the art is all original art chances are it will never have any value to a collector, even if you could find out who actually painted it. But is that really important? As long as you like the painting, as long as it has meaning to you then that's where art's true value really is.

Answer 2

Is there any information about the Rosewood Galleries on the card? An address? A phone number? How old do you think the painting is? Are you sure it's a painting and not a print on canvas? Do you have a photo of it?

My experience tells me that if there's no contact info on the card, and the artist's first name isn't even on it, the painting probably has no value (except so far as someone likes it for what it is and is willing to pay a few bucks to hang it on their wall).

The "registration number" was probably one of those sales tactics used to give the impression that the painting was potentially valuable, when in fact there was no such registry. And had the Rosewood Galleries, Inc. been a reputable art dealer selling investment-quality art, there would be more info about them and the artist on the card, and at least be *some* mention of them on Google. Even if they were long out of business, the name would still turn up on art and antique dealers' sites in connection with other paintings that had turned up for sale.

Answer 3

First off,......are you sure this is an "original" painting or just a good copy?....."Dunn" is a very famous name and it is also a very common name among artists,.....I'd suggest you get ahold of "George Attal" (ah tell) at Austin Galleries on 6th st. in Austin,Tx......area code 512, George is the man who can tell you what you have.

Answer 4

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