Art Advisory Services

  • Provide comprehensive appraisal and valuation services, including fair market value and insurance reports
  • Prepare inventory assessments of fine art holdings, including research, cataloguing and image documentation
  • Advise and manage deaccessions for both corporate and private collections
  • Advise on new acquistions, including sourcing specific works of art for sale
  • Conceive and curate corporate and private collections
  • Project management of collections, including conservation, authentication, curatorial and framing advice
  • Provide independent advice on sales and negotiation (Price = value)
  • Oversee educational staff training for corporate art collections
  • Implement marketing communications strategies for award winning architecture, interior design, corporate art collections and public art installations

Lynne Kortenhaus Biography

LYNNE M. KORTENHAUS has been engaged in the acquisition, installation, valuation, marketing and curatorial work of fine art and antiques since 1975.

Her qualifications include:

1984 – Present: Kortenhaus Communications, Inc/Kortenhaus Fine Arts Advisory Services, Boston MA. Provides project management counseling for new and established art collections to private and corporate clients. The firm also implements marketing communications strategies for award winning architecture, interior design, corporate art collections and public art installations.

1983 – 1984: Director of Marketing and Sales, Haley & Steele Gallery, Boston MA. Specialists in 17th-20th century American and European prints and drawings

1979 – 1983: New England Regional Director, Phillips International Fine Art Auctioneers & Appraisers, Boston, MA. London-based firm with New York and Boston offices.

1975 – 1979: Assistant Director Arvest Galleries, Boston MA. Specialized in 19th and 20th Century American and European paintings.

Professional Affliations

Arts Commissioner, Boston Public Art Commission, City of Boston
Member, Appraisers Association of America, New York
Corporate Advisory Member, MassArt Foundation, Boston
Director, Wang Theatre/Citi Performing Arts Center, Boston
Trustee, Pilgrim Monument and Museum, Cape Cod
Director’s Circle, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Chair/Trustee, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA.

Education

1975: Rhode Island School of Design, MFA
1973: Rhode Island School of Design, BFA

Press Highlights

Faraway Mobile Home Comes to Represent Roots – New York Times, December 25, 2009

Representative List of Clients

  • Beresford Galleries
  • Boston Properties
  • Centennial Farms Management Company
  • Condit & Associates
  • Cambridge Trust Company
  • The Colonnade Hotel
  • Cornell University, School of Architecture
  • Eaton Vance Corporation
  • Fairmont Maui Kea Lani
  • Fleet National Bank
  • Four Seasons Hotel, Atlanta
  • Four Seasons Hotel, Philadelphia
  • Ginsburg Hallowell Associates
  • Grand Hyatt Atlanta
  • Herrick & Smith
  • Host Hotels & Resorts
  • Hyatt Regency Maui
  • Hyatt Regency San Francisco
  • Interior Planning Associates
  • J.R. Fennel Realty Company
  • Keystone Massachusetts Group
  • Raymond Property Group
  • The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC
  • The Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead
  • The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island
  • The Ritz-Carlton, Phoenix
  • The Ritz-Carlton, Dearborn
  • The Ritz-Carlton, Naples
  • The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel
  • The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner
  • St. Regis Houston
  • Swissotel Chicago
  • Westin Buckhead, Atlanta

Private clients not for disclosure.