The Artist-Gallery Partnership: A Practical Guide to Consigning Art

Sculptors International
"Emphasizes the need for artists and galleries to work within a written contractual framework. . . . The Guide deals with the legal and technical complexities of this business relationship in straightforward, understandable terms. . . . The book is ideal for artists wishing to enter the legal zone of the art business with some background."


Arts Management
"Handles a complex subject in an easy-to-read style and includes a model contract and analysis of it."


The Crafts Report
"[The authors] have compiled almost every word there is to be said on the legal aspects of consignment selling. The book is aimed at clearing away the misgivings and misconceptions which abound on both sides of the fence."


The Working Arts
"A fine example of a truly practical guide to consignment for the artist or craftsperson. ... The Artist-Gallery Partnership is a practical nuts and bolts guide to drafting your own consignment contract and avoiding the pitfalls of an oral agreement based on a handshake and some vague promises or assumptions."


American Crafts
"Aimed at clearing away the misgivings that many artists and gallery owners feel about consignment arrangements. Its focus is a model consignment contract with a point-by-point analysis encompassing everything from pricing and commissions, to a gallery's responsibility for promoting consigned work."


Book Description
Essential reading for artists, art dealers, and gallery owners, The Artist-Gallery Partnership: A Practical Guide to Consigning Art offers a unique and thorough discussion of consignment that clarifies all aspects of this crucial art world relationship. The book presents a provision-by-provision explanation of the Standard Art Consignment Agreement, a model contract between artist and dealer suitable for use. The contract is flexible, making it ideal for establishing consignment arrangements that are mutually beneficial. It covers agency, consignment, warranties, transportation responsibilities, insurance coverage, pricing, gallery's commission, promotion, return of art, and much more. The Artist-Gallery Partnership provides artists and dealers with guidelines for sound business negotiations as well as ideas for resolving disputes. The revised edition contains a new chapter on state consignment legislation, and includes a sample of the Standard Art Consignment Agreement, an inventory sheet/receipt for artworks on consignment, and the texts of the art consignment laws enacted in more than thirty states.


About the Author
Tad Crawford is an attorney, publisher, and author of Legal Guide for the Visual Artist, The Writer's Legal Guide, The Secret Life of Money, and the Business and Legal Forms series of books for fine artists, craftspeople, graphic designers, illustrators, photographers, and authors and self-publishers. Susan Mellon served as a director of Artist/Craftsmen's Information Service of Washington, D.C., and was active within that organization in the development of the Standard Art Consignment Agreement.


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Essential reading for artists, art dealers, and gallery owners, The Artist-Gallery Partnership: A Practical Guide to Consigning Art offers a unique and thorough discussion of consignment that clarifies all aspects of this crucial art world relationship. The book presents a provision-by-provision explanation of the Standard Art Consignment Agreement, a model contract between artist and dealer suitable for use. The contract is flexible, making it ideal for establishing consignment arrangements that are mutually beneficial. It covers agency, consignment, warranties, transportation responsibilities, insurance coverage, pricing, gallery's commission, promotion, return of art, and much more.


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