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CEO Albert Scaglione, a former engineering professor at [[Wayne State University]] in [[Detroit]] and graduate from the [[New Jersey Institute of Technology]], founded Park West Gallery in 1969 after leaving his job at [[NASA]] where he worked on solving solving heat shielding problems.<ref>http://www.parkwestgallery.com/aboutMSUAlumni.aspx</ref> Starting out selling paintings out of the back of his truck, Scaglione, with a mission to introduce fine art to the public, has grown Park West into one of the largest gallerys, auction houses, and art dealers in the world. Today, the gallery itself consists of a 63,000-square-foot Greco-Roman building offering 23 exhibit spaces, each devoted to a particular artist or type of art.<ref>http://www.parkwestgallery.com/aboutNWATraveler.aspx</ref>. |
CEO Albert Scaglione, a former engineering professor at [[Wayne State University]] in [[Detroit]] and graduate from the [[New Jersey Institute of Technology]], founded Park West Gallery in 1969 after leaving his job at [[NASA]] where he worked on solving solving heat shielding problems.<ref>http://www.parkwestgallery.com/aboutMSUAlumni.aspx</ref> Starting out selling paintings out of the back of his truck, Scaglione, with a mission to introduce fine art to the public, has grown Park West into one of the largest gallerys, auction houses, and art dealers in the world. Today, the gallery itself consists of a 63,000-square-foot Greco-Roman building offering 23 exhibit spaces, each devoted to a particular artist or type of art.<ref>http://www.parkwestgallery.com/aboutNWATraveler.aspx</ref>. |
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The gallery was started in 1969 in a 20-by-60-foot storefront at Nine Mile and Telegraph by Albert Scaglione, a former rocket science professor at Wayne State University and researcher who got out of the space business when the government cut funding for NASA. When his research project trying to get a man on Mars was not renewed, and the only work left was on nuclear warheads, he left and decided to move into art like some of his relatives in Italy.<ref>http://www.parkwestgallery.com/aboutSouthfieldSun.aspx</ref> |
The gallery was started in 1969 in a 20-by-60-foot storefront at Nine Mile and Telegraph by Albert Scaglione, a former rocket science professor at Wayne State University and researcher who got out of the space business when the government cut funding for NASA. When his research project trying to get a man on Mars was not renewed, and the only work left was on nuclear warheads, he left and decided to move into art like some of his relatives in Italy.<ref>http://www.parkwestgallery.com/aboutSouthfieldSun.aspx</ref> |
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Park West Gallery is one of the world’s largest art dealers, conducting fine art auctions across theUnited States and Canada, as well as on cruise ships throughout the world. In addition to its main gallery and art restoration center in Southfield, Michigan, Park West operates a gallery and distribution center in Miami Lakes, Florida, and maintains a catalog and Internet sales business. Park West's extensive relationships with artists and and the ability to reach art enthusists around the world results in approximately 300,000 pieces of fine art sold each year.
History
CEO Albert Scaglione, a former engineering professor at Wayne State University in Detroit and graduate from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, founded Park West Gallery in 1969 after leaving his job at NASA where he worked on solving solving heat shielding problems.[1] Starting out selling paintings out of the back of his truck, Scaglione, with a mission to introduce fine art to the public, has grown Park West into one of the largest gallerys, auction houses, and art dealers in the world. Today, the gallery itself consists of a 63,000-square-foot Greco-Roman building offering 23 exhibit spaces, each devoted to a particular artist or type of art.[2].
The gallery was started in 1969 in a 20-by-60-foot storefront at Nine Mile and Telegraph by Albert Scaglione, a former rocket science professor at Wayne State University and researcher who got out of the space business when the government cut funding for NASA. When his research project trying to get a man on Mars was not renewed, and the only work left was on nuclear warheads, he left and decided to move into art like some of his relatives in Italy.[3]
Today, Park West Gallery mounts exhibitions featuring works by old and modern masters, including Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Francisco Goya, Joan Miró, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Park West Gallery also represents numerous contemporary artists, including Yaacov Agam, Peter Max, Csaba Marcus, Anatole Krasnyansky, Fanch Ledan, Marcel Mouly, Linda LeKinff, Igor Medvedev, Itzchak Tarkay, and Scott Jacobs. Park West Gallery is also a dealer of Walt Disney Studios and Muhammad Ali memorabilia.
During the 1990s, Park West Gallery began conducting fine art auctions aboard cruise lines and discovered an opportunity to bring the art collecting to a large cross-section of the public. Today, Park West conducts thousands of auctions aboard such cruise lines as Carnival Cruise Lines, Celebrity, Disney, Holland America, Radisson Seven Seas, Royal Caribbean International, and Windstar, as well as at Sandals Resorts.
Among its charitable activities, Park West Gallery donates artwork to university art collections and to other institutions, notably New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Selected exhibitions
- June 2008 Tarkay: Recent Works, a collection of more than 40 paintings, watercolors, mixed media and limited-edition serigraphs by figurative artist Itzchak Tarkay.
- September 2007 Agam: Kinetic Art, a collection of ...
- February 1993 Salvador Dali: Illustrations of "The Divine Comedy", a collection of more than 50 works illustrating the 14th century poem, where Dante Alighieri is guided through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.
Books
- The Gilded Edge: The Art of the Frame (2000)
- Antique American Frames: Identification and Price Guide 2nd Edition (1999) (with Mervyn Kaufman)
- Antique American Frames: Identification and Price Guide (1995) (with Mervyn Kaufman)
- The Art of the Frame: American Frames of the Arts and Crafts Period (1988)