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Edmund P. Pillsbury - Ph.D.
Chairman of Fine and Decorative Arts
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Dr. Edmund P. Pillsbury, one of the world's foremost art museum professionals, has led the Yale Center for British Art; the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London; the Kimbell Art Museum; the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art; and the Meadows Museum. He earned his Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art from the University of London's Courtauld Institute of Art. He has numerous affiliations with Important American institutions and has received many awards and honors.

Ed Jaster
VP of Heritage Auction Galleries
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From the very beginning, Ed Jaster seemed destined for the art business. His parents met while attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1940s, the same school their son would later attend. Subsequently, for some 20 years, Ed owned his own commercial art firm in Chicago, acquiring, trading, and selling world class collections of American photography, illustration art, and vintage comic books. Ed brought his vast experience and expertise in collectibles to Heritage Auctions in 2002.

Marianne Berardi PhD
Senior Fine Arts Expert
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Dr. Marianne Berardi is an historian of Dutch 17th-century painting and 20th-century American art. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, and served for five years as director of the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, Missouri. She co-headed the painting department at Ewolfs.com Fine Arts Auctioneers, and from 2001 to 2004 served as Director of the Cleveland Artists Foundation. She has curated many exhibitions, authored the first catalogue for the Union Club of Cleveland's collection, and has taught at numerous universities.

Courtney Case
Associate Director, American & European Paintings
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Courtney Case received her Master of Arts in Art History from Richmond American University in London. Prior to joining Heritage, she held an associate position at a prominent New York gallery specializing in 19th and 20th Century American Paintings and Sculpture. She also interned for a major auction house in London. Her duties at Heritage include finding new business, appraising property for sale and helping produce twice-yearly sales at Slocum Street.

Nicholas Dawes
Consignment Director
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Nick began his career in his native England in the late 1960's and brings forty years of experience in the antiques and fine art auction business. He emigrated to New York in 1979 and has pursued his career there as an auctioneer, appraiser, author, lecturer and antiques dealer. He is a former Department Head and auctioneer at Phillips and at Sotheby's in New York, and has organized his own auctions at several prominent auction houses including Doyle and Rago, where his annual events dedicated to the art of Lalique received great critical acclaim between 2000 and 2006. He also conceived and helped organize two of the most successful live auctions of sports memorabilia in the history of the hobby. He has held an annual exhibition and sale of Lalique glass hood ornaments at the Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance since 1993, and is considered this country's leading authority on the work of Rene Lalique. Nick is the author of three standard works on decorative arts which have collectively sold over 100,000 copies, together with scores of articles, and lectures widely internationally. He has been a faculty member of Parsons, the New School for Design, since 1984, and has taught Luxury Marketing at Columbia Business School and courses on English and French furniture at the Bard Graduate20Center. He first appeared as an appraiser on 'Antiques Roadshow' for PBS in the second ever broadcast of the show, and has appeared regularly ever since, discussing ceramics, glass, silver and other decorative arts.

Michael Duty
Director, Art of the American West
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Michael Duty is a noted author that has spent three decades in the museum community in various Director capacities, including at the National Western Art Foundation in San Antonio, the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Rockwell Museum in Corning, New York and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art in Indianapolis. He is a co-founder of MuseumsWest consortium and a former Executive Director of the California Historical Society in San Francisco. Michael has organized more than 60 museum exhibitions, is a frequent lecturer, and has won multiple awards.

Frank Hettig
Director, Modern & Contemporary Art
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Frank Hettig's ten years of auction experience and well-regarded reputation as a curator, critic and connoisseur of contemporary art follows him to Dallas, where he serves as Director of Modern and Contemporary Paintings & Sculpture at Heritage. Trained as an art historian at the University of Amsterdam, Frank advised on exhibitions and museum catalogues and has lectured at a number of colleges and universities both in the US and overseas. At both the Goethe-Institute Internationes Los Angeles (German Cultural Institute) and the Consulate General of the Netherlands, he conceptualized and coordinated a variety of international cultural events including lectures and symposia, guest artist exhibitions and performing arts programs. As an independent art critic he contributed to museum catalogs and has written reviews and features in English, German and Dutch for publications such as Archis, Art/Text, Artforum, Bauwelt, Forum International, das Kunstwerk, Kunstforum and Metropolis, among others. Frank is also fluent in German, Dutch, French and Italian.

Todd Hignite
Consignment Director
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Todd is the founder and editor of the critically lauded publication Comic Art, which has been nominated for Eisner Awards every year of its existence and won a 2004 Harvey Award. He has extensive experience working in the art world, has been collecting original comic art and illustration art for the past 20 years, and is the author of The Art of Jaime Hernandez/The Secrets of Life and Death, and In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists, among other publications. He has also curated numerous exhibitions on comics and illustration art, including R. Crumb's Underground, which recently toured museums across the country.

Christina Japp
Director, 20th Century Design
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Christina Japp brings 15 years of international experience in all aspects of 20th Century design to her position at Heritage. She formerly worked at Sotheby's as a Vice President in the 20th Century Design department. She was involved in the record-breaking sale of the Karl Lagerfeld Collection, as well as several important single owner sales, including the highly successful auctions of the Collection of Wolfgang Joop, the Barry Friedman Collection, The Triestman Collection of Important Tiffany Glass, Deutscher Werkbund to Bauhaus: An Important collection of German Design, and the important collection of the Estate of Cecile Singer.

Meredith Meuwly
Senior Consignment Director
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Meredith earned her B.A. degree in Classical Studies and Art History from Duke University, and a Masters in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and the History of the Art Market from Christie's Education in New York. She spent the next five years in the Christie's Antiquities Department, working on numerous high profile auctions, including the Doris Duke Estate, Ancient Egyptian Art from the Harer Family Trust, and the Morven Collection of Ancient Art. Meredith also serves as the Director for the Appraisal Services department at Heritage Auction Galleries.

Atlee Phillips
Consignment Director, Texas Art
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Atlee Marie Phillips was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. At that time, her parents J. O. "Dutch" Phillips and Mary Frances Phillips were already firmly established figures in the North Texas arts community. Atlee grew up working in their Fort Worth and Dallas art galleries. Throughout high school, she held an intern position in the Amon Carter Museum library for over three years. Atlee attended The Colorado College where she obtained a BA with a major in Art History. During college, she focused her studies on the development of modernism and worked as the Student Coordinator of the Coburn Gallery. Following her return from The Colorado College, Atlee completed another internship at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. She then entered the graduate program at Tulane University in order to study Aztec and Colonial Mexican art. She was also lucky to find an enthusiastic mentor in artist and scholar, Stuart Gentling. After completing her coursework, Atlee donated her time to the post-Katrina recovery of New Orleans and worked at Kurt Schon Gallery.

Atlee recently returned to reside in west Fort Worth. As the Consignment Director of Texas Art at Heritage, she is building on her unique knowledge of Early Modern and Contemporary Texas art, as well as her studies in Texas history. She is looking forward to continuing her parents' work by raising the public awareness of Texas art, promoting Texas artists, and working with Texas art collectors.

Tim Rigdon
Director, Silver and Vertu
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Tim Rigdon joined Heritage Auction Galleries in 2006, and brings a quarter century of decorative arts experience to the company. He earned his Master's in Decorative Arts History from Parson's School of Design in New York. He became a decorative arts and design dealer after a museum career including The Art Institute of Chicago, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and the University of Minnesota Art Museum. He has established successful galleries in Birmingham, Michigan, Chicago, and Atlanta.

Delia E. Sullivan
Senior Specialist, Consignment Director
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With a Master's Degree in Cultural Anthropology from the New School for Social Research in New York City, Delia E. Sullivan studied Primitive Art with Ted Carpenter and Shamanism with Michael Harner. She worked for 14 years at Christie's in New York City, seven of which were spent as head of the American Indian Art Department. From 2000 through 2007, Delia managed two auctions a year in that capacity, during which she significantly raised the profitability and reputation of her department.

Kirsty Harper Buchanan
Assistant Consignment Director & Cataloger
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Kirsty Harper Buchanan did her post-graduate work in art history at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) where she was recognized as a Meadows Artistic Scholar, a Comini Grant Recipient, and a Meadows Grant Recipient. She was part of the archaeological team that excavated the Etruscan bronze age site of Poggia Colla (Italy). Kirsty comes to Heritage having worked in various capacities for several respected fine art galleries and private art collections. She has been a guest lecturer at the Meadows Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art, and most recently co-Directed the McKaughan Private Collection of South American Art.

Mary Adair Dockery
Assistant Consignment Director & Cataloger
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Mary Adair graduated summa cum laude from Davidson College and received a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities to study art history at Yale University, where she completed her M.A. in American painting. As Curator of Johns Hopkins University's Evergreen House in Baltimore, she organized exhibitions and educational programs related to the museum's modern art collections. Before joining Heritage, she assisted with a Thomas Moran exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, consulted for Arts & Letters Live, and lectured on art historical topics for the Meadows Museum, David Dike Fine Arts, and the Episcopal School of Dallas.

Don Mangus
Illustration Art and Comics Cataloger
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Don Mangus brings his experience as a published writer and former college-level Design, Drawing, and Painting instructor to his catalog descriptions in Comics and Illustration Art. He is an artist/cartoonist, with both a BFA and a MFA from Southern Methodist University. His articles on comic art have been published in Comic Book Artist, Robin Snyder's the Comics, and The Charlton Spotlight, as well as on numerous comics-related Web sites.

Melody Martin
Fine Arts Cataloger
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Melody Martin received her BA in Art History from Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She interned with the Florence Museum of Art, Science & History in South Carolina, as well as the Spartanburg Museum of Art. She received Converse's prestigious Excellence in Art History Award, and many of her essays are part of its permanent collections. Melody has worked as an Art Advisor for a San Francisco based Paper Gallery, as well as an Art Consultant for a Dallas art gallery and art firm. Melody joined Heritage as a Cataloger for the Fine & Decorative Arts Division in 2008.

2009 October Signature Modern & Contemporary Art Auction Realized $940,351
2009 Signature July Art of the American West & Texas Auction Realized $1,370,628
2009 June Signature American Art Auction Realized $4,721,112
2009 June Signature 20th Century Design Auction Realized $648,532
2009 October Signature Illustration Art Auction Realized $3,479,411

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