LOUISE BARCO ALLRICH, ASA
San Francisco Office 236 West Portal Avenue, #406 San Francisco, CA 94127 415.584.2093 telephone | Santa Clara Office 408.320.2783 Sacramento Office 916.999.0031 |
AllrichArt@aol.com
APPRAISER
Louise Allrich is an Accredited Senior Appraiser in Fine Art, accredited by the American Society of Appraisers in Washington D.C. She is an experienced fine art appraiser specializing in late 19th century, 20th and 21st century fine art and 20th and 21st century American crafts. She holds a Certificate in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Art from the University of California, Irvine in conjunction with the American Society of Appraisers.
She is on the Governing Board of the ASA Northern California Chapter. The American Society of Appraisers is the oldest and only major appraisal organization designating members in all appraisal specialties. The Northern California Chapter consists of 250 appraisers in the following fields: Appraisal Review and Management, Business Valuation, Machinery and Equipment, Personal Property, Gems and Jewelry and Real Property. Allrich has served on the Governing Board for eleven years.
Additionally, she is up to date and has successfully completed a course and examination on the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), the Congressionally recognized set of appraisal standards promulgated by The Appraisal Foundation. She has been trained in and is experienced in appraisals for charitable contributions, insurance coverage, and claims as well as estate tax, disposition and others.
She has completed appraisals for private collectors, cities, corporations and insurance companies as well as for donations to museums nationally including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Cleveland Museum of Art; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Oakland Museum of California; Portland Art Museum (Oregon); and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, She has also worked as an expert witness for litigation of insurance claims.
She has over forty years’ experience observing the art world as an appraiser, consultant, past art dealer and gallery owner, museum and art school trustee, lecturer and writer. As a dealer, Allrich purchased and sold fine art paintings, sculpture, prints, and tapestries for over 25 years.
ART ADVISOR
Louise Allrich has done consulting in the field of fine arts for corporations, individuals, museums, hospitality corporations and government for over thirty years. In 2009 she worked as the art advisor with an international team and wrote the art master plan for a new city in South Korea. She was recently the consultant for Percent for Art programs for two different developers on two large, multi-hotel projects as well as a large sculpture garden in Shanghai. She has curated private collections as well as commissioned numerous major outdoor sculptures for clients such as the Hong Kong International Airport and Singapore’s Marina Square Center; and tapestries for clients such as Bill Gates and Royal Caribbean Lines in Oslo, Norway.
EDUCATION
Allrich is a Senior Accredited Appraiser with the American Society of Appraisers. Accreditation at this top level requires a lengthy process of testing, review and over 10,000 hours of appraisals. She holds a certificate in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Arts from the University of California, Irvine and nine certificates of achievement from the American Society of Appraisers including Appraisers and the Law and Personal Property Valuation Methodology, as well as Estate and Charitable Contributions. She received a BS in Design with class work in art history from the University of California, Davis, and has continued to take a wide range of classes and seminars in art history at different colleges and universities including Stanford University and City College of San Francisco. Additionally, Allrich has attended two national Fair Market Value, IRS conferences sponsored by the American Society of Appraisers in Los Angeles, as well as numerous other seminars related to the appraisal and connoisseurship of art.
AUTHOR
She has authored articles on art for a national art magazine and a university catalogue.
LECTURES, JURIES, MODERATOR, KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Allrich has lectured at numerous universities and museums on the subject of American craft, site-specific sculpture, and art galleries, as well as on specific artists. Museum lectures include Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. University lectures include San Francisco State University; San Jose State University; California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA; Alberta College of Art and Design, Alberta, Canada; School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Juries include National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-West Regional Awards; California State Fair – Fine Art Awards; and Santa Rosa County Fair, CA - Fine Art Awards. She has moderated and been a panelist in numerous symposiums.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, ADVISOR
Allrich has served on Boards of Directors in the not-for-profit sector including a community museum and an art school. She is currently on the governing board of the NorCal Chapter of the American Society of Appraiser
OFFICES IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA SAN JOSE, CA and SACRAMENTO, CA
San Francisco, CA 415.584.2093
San Jose, CA 408.867.3440
Sacramento, CA 916.999.0031