D. Scott Atkinson Fine Art Advisory Services
D. SCOTT ATKINSON
July 2008 — Present D. Scott Atkinson Fine Art Advisory Services, San Diego, CA
Fine Art Brokerage, Appraisal and Consultancy
CERTIFICATION
Uniform Standards for Professional Appraisal Practice [USPAP], Personal Property Certificate The Appraisal Foundation, 2022-2023 Edition, March 2022.
Uniform Standards for Professional Appraisal Practice [USPAP], Personal Property Certificate, The Appraisal Foundation, 2020-2021 Edition, January 2020.
American Society of Appraisers, 2018 International Conference, Anaheim, CA, October 2018.
Uniform Standards for Professional Appraisal Practice [USPAP], Personal Property Certificate, The Appraisal Foundation, 2018-2019 Edition, May 2018.
Uniform Standards for Professional Appraisal Practice [USPAP], Personal Property Certificate, The Appraisal Foundation, 2016-2017 Edition, May 2016.
Appraising Personal Property for Non-cash Charitable Contributions & Estates, American Society of Appraisers, May 12-13, 2016.
Passed American Society of Appraisers Fine Art Specialty Exam, May 2015.
Uniform Standards for Professional Appraisal Practice [USPAP], Personal Property Certificate, The Appraisal Foundation, 2014-2015 Edition, July 2014.
Certification Program in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Arts
University of California Extension, Irvine, CA, July 2011.
EDUCATION
Master of Arts Degree, Department of Art History
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 1986.
Bachelor of Arts Degree, Department of Art History
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 1978.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
July 2011 — Present San Diego Chapter Member, American Society of Appraisers
October 2010 — Present Member, American Society of Appraisers
June 2005 — Oct. 2008 President, Board of Trustees, Balboa Art Conservation Center, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
July 2008 — Present D. Scott Atkinson - Fine Art Advisory Services,
San Diego, California
Nov. 2002 — May 2008 Chief Curator & Curator of American Art,
San Diego Museum of Art,
San Diego, California
July 1997 — Nov. 2002 Curator of American Art, San Diego Museum of Art,
San Diego, California
Feb. 1996 — June 1997 Consultant - Fine Arts Valuation, The Alasko Company,
Chicago, Illinois
Nov. 1990 — Jan. 1996 Curator of Collections and Exhibitions,
Terra Foundation for the Arts, Musée d'Art Américain,
Giverny, France
Sept. 1985 — Jan. 1996 Curator of Collections and Exhibitions,
Terra Museum of American Art,
Chicago, Illinois
Jan. 1984 — Aug. 1985 Curator, The Queens Museum,
Flushing, New York
Aug. 1981 — Dec. 1983 Assistant Curator for Documentation,
Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
Santa Barbara, California
1980 Assistant Registrar, Architectural Drawing and Prints Collection,
University of California, Santa Barbara
1977 — 1979 Assistant Preparator of Exhibitions, University Art Museum,
University of California, Santa Barbara
PUBLICATIONS
2009 Bending the Rule: The Art of Allen Guilmette, Togonon Gallery,
San Francisco, California (exhibition catalogue)
2008 Exploring the Possibilities of Form, Timeless Geometry: The Art of Peter Forakis, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, California (exhibition catalogue)
2008 Landscapes of the Mind: New Conceptions of Nature, Part II,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York (exhibition catalogue)
2007 Everett Gee Jackson/San Diego Modern, 1920-1955
San Diego Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue)
2003 San Diego Museum of Art Selected Works
San Diego Museum of Art (collections catalogue)
2003 Off the Northeast Coast
Owen Gallery, New York (exhibition catalogue)
2001 Homer’s Odyssey, Historians of Nineteenth-Century of Art Newsletter
Fall, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 21-22. (exhibition review)
- High Societies: Psychedelic Rock Posters of Haight-Ashbury
San Diego Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue)
- Aaron Bohrod: Objects d' Art
William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, California (exhibition brochure)
- Theodore Robinson: Pioneer of American Impressionism
Owen Gallery, New York (exhibition catalogue)
1999 Picturing Paradise: San Diego in the Eye of the Artist, 1875-1940
San Diego Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue)
1999 An American Pulse: The Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows
San Diego Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue)
1998 Faszination der Täuschung: William Harnett und die amererikanische
Trompe-l’oeil-Malerei, (William Harnett and American Trompe-
L’Œil Illusionism), Belvedere, Österreichische Galerie, Vienna, Austria
part 1, 1998, pp. 36-53. (article for museum bulletin)
1995 Winslow Homer at a Glance
Terra Foundation for the Arts, Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny, France
(exhibition brochure)
Publications (continued)
1994 Introduction - Reclamation and Transformation:
Three Self-Taught Chicago Artists
Terra Foundation for the Arts, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL
(exhibition catalogue)
1994 James McNeil Whistler at a Glance
Terra Foundation for the Arts, Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny, France
(exhibition brochure)
1992 Lasting Impressions: American Painters in France, 1865-1915
Terra Foundation for the Arts, Chicago, Illinois
(exhibition catalogue – introduction and entries)
1990 Winslow Homer in Gloucester
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois
(exhibition catalogue)
1990 The Emotional Landscape
Illinois Arts Council (exhibition brochure)
1989 Review of Special Issue, The Journal of the Society for Industrial
Archaeology – Industrial Archaeology in Art Technology and Culture,
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, Vol. 30, no. 2, April 1989,
pp. 460-464.
1987 Shinnecock and the Shinnecock Landscapes
William Merritt Chase: Summers at Shinnecock, 1891-1902
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (exhibition catalogue)
1987 Americans in the Landscape; America and the Modernist Spirit
A Proud Heritage: Two Centuries of American Art
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois (collection catalogue)
1987 Arthur Dove's Nature Symbolized #3: Steeple & Trees
The Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois,
February 6, 1987, vol. 257, no. 5, p. 584.
(article)
1986 The New Society of American Artists in Paris, 1908-1912
The Queens Museum, Flushing, New York (exhibition catalogue)
1984 Joseph Ternbach: Conservator/Collector
The Queens Museum, Flushing, New York (exhibition catalogue)
Publications (continued)
1984 Joseph Ternbach: Conservator/Collector
The Queens Museum, Flushing, New York (exhibition catalogue)
1982 Rude Rocks, Mossy Caverns and Irregular Unwrought Grottoes,
The Anglo-American Artist in Italy, 1750-1820
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
(exhibition catalogue)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
11/03/07 - 01/27/08 Everett Gee Jackson/San Diego Modern, 1920-1955
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
03/03/07 - 07/04/07 Translucent Visions: Frederic Whitaker & Eileen Monahan Whitaker, A Retrospective in Watercolor
California Center for the Arts, Escondido, California
06/03/06 - 09/03/06 Winslow Homer American Illustrator
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
05/26/01 - 08/12/01 High Societies: Psychedelic Rock Posters of Haight-Ashbury
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
10/30/99 - 1/09/00 Picturing Paradise: San Diego in the Eye of the Artist, 1875-1940
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
01/30/99 - 04/18/99 An American Pulse: The Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
10/24/95 - 04/14/96 Attitudes Toward Nature
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois
10/08/94 - 04/02/95 Face to Face: Portraits from the Collections of the Terra Museum
of American Art
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois
04/06/94 - 07/31/94 Reclamation and Transformation:
Three Self-Taught Chicago Artists
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois
04/01/94 - 10/31/94 James Abbott McNeill Whistler at a Glance
Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny, France
Selected Exhibitions (continued)
04/01/93 - 10/31/93 Maurice Brazil Prendergast at a Glance
Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny, France
06/01/92 - 10/31/94 Lasting Impressions: American Painters in France, 1865-1915
Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny, France
10/20/90 - 12/30/90 Winslow Homer in Gloucester
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois
04/24/90 - 12/30/90 Theodore Robinson: From Camera to Canvas
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois
06/14/89 - 9/03/89 American Painters in France: 1830-1930
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois
09/11/87 - 02/28/88 William Merritt Chase: Summers at Shinnecock, 1891-1902
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois
02/1/86 - 06/10/86 The New Society of American Artists in Paris, 1908-1912
The Queens Museum, Flushing, New York
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois
09/08/84 - 1/13/85 Joseph Ternbach: Conservator/Collector
The Queens Museum, Flushing, New York
05/31/83 - 07/17/83 Artists and the Cityscape
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California