The Principal Mission of Art Scrittura is to amplify the joy and meaning of art for collectors and artists. We are committed to helping our clients organize, document, and display their artworks in fine art books, databases, and environments that enhance the significance and value of their collections.
Painting by Michael Rich, courtesy the Adler Gallery, San Francisco
Rosemary O’Toole is a seasoned art professional
with extensive academic training in
art history from leading international institutions. Her catalogs, digital collection management, curatorial expertise, and art world affiliations
are valuable resources for fine art collectors and artists worldwide.
Ms. O’Toole’s decades of immersion
in the art worlds of London, Paris,
New York, and San Francisco, combined with her passion for collecting, serve the interests of both novice and veteran collectors.
ART SCRITTURA CATALOGS
An Art Collection represents an extraordinary commitment of resources that deserves to be chronicled, celebrated, and shared. Art Scrittura takes pride in helping collectors and artists produce exquisite catalogs that reflect their vision and creative passion. Please click on the images below to view sample catalogs.
The Private Collector’s Catalog is a fine art book devoted to the unique visions and sensibilities of collectors and collections. Whatever your imagination impels you to collect, we are honored to photograph, describe and celebrate.
The Artist’s Catalog can be as comprehensive as a Catalogue Raisonné, or a more selective representation of an artist’s oeuvre, containing original critical and art-historical commentary. Useful as a portfolio to present to galleries or collectors, it also makes a beautiful personal document of achievement in art.
The Exhibition Catalog is a professional, museum quality publication with art-historical essays and documentation, to accompany an artist’s exhibition at a museum, gallery, art center, or private venue.
FINE ART SERVICES
Art Scritturaspecializes in custom art catalogs, digital database management, curatorial advising, acquisition guidance, and art-historical research and writing. We produce distinguished testimonials to the imagination and dedication of collectors and artists.
♦ OUR FINE ART CATALOG is a custom-designed, text and image-based document that serves collectors and artists as a visual and documentary record of accomplishment in the fine art world. Print and digital formats are available.
♦ THE DIGITAL ART DATABASE is a customizable software management program that inventories, organizes, and maintains the essential records of an art collection.
♦ CONSULTING AND CURATORIAL SERVICES include collection evaluation, art-historical and art-market research, art acquisition advice, curatorial organization and display. We offer professional guidance to help envision, create, or complete a collection of art.
♦ ART WRITING AND RESEARCH is offered for exhibitions, private publications, and catalogs. We also present lectures on private collections and exhibitions.
ARTICLES BY ROSEMARY O’TOOLE
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A Passion for Realism: the James and Linda Law Collection / Latin American Artists in Print: the Kyron Archives / Craig Norman Smith: Contemporary Expressionist / Subjectivity and the Problematics of Portraiture in the Post-Modern World / Reconfiguration of the Body in the Work of Eva Hesse / Ephemera and Obsolescence in the Work of Gabriel Orozco and Thomas Hirschhorn / A Psychoanalytic View of Depression: the Art of Colin McCahon / The Itinerant Journey of the Spectator: from Édouard Manet to Robert Morris / Frida Kahlo: Art and Life.
