Figge Art Museum Unveils Exhibition of the Deere Art Collection

DAVENPORT, IOWA.- The Figge Art Museum opened Global Currents: The John Deere Art Collection on Saturday April 24, 2010. The exhibition is the first opportunity for the general public to see works from Deere & Company’s corporate art collection. In 1965, William Hewitt, then chairman of Deere & Company, established an art collection to compliment the company’s new modernist world headquarters in Moline, Illinois, which was designed by Eero Saarinen. With significant art originating from the United States, Latin America, [...]

Buying Art: Passion or Investment?

Since the dawn of time —once man felt secure and well fed— he has spent his time and financial resources on art. So it’s not surprising, therefore, that in the modern era, where  we are all immensely well fed and there is a growing disposable income among the middle classes in the Western world, that there should be a terrific increase in interest in art and art collecting. Indeed, there are now a number of investment funds dedicated to art. [...]