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About Our Firm

Located in Fort Worth, Texas, Shelley C. Matthews Fine Art Consulting serves clients throughout Texas and the United States. We have experience in the auction industry, museum and private sectors, as well as advanced academic training in the fine arts. As an independent firm, we provide fine art expertise with integrity, objectivity, and scholarship. The firm has brokered the acquisition of several works of fine art, appraised both large and small collections, examined and catalogued numerous objects, and collaborated with other scholars on various projects."

About the Owner

Trained as an art historian, Shelley Corder Matthews has worked at the Kimbell Art Museum and as the curator of a private collection in Dallas. She is an Old Master specialist and has also worked extensively with nineteenth and twentieth-century artworks. Shelley Matthews is a summa cum laude graduate of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, where she earned a Master of Arts degree in Art History and Bachelor's degrees in both Art History and English.

Select Projects in 2006

Heritage Auction Galleries, Fine Arts Department : For auctions in Dallas, Shelley C. Matthews assisted in the cataloguing and valuing of artworks, and also authored a sale catalog.

Rescuing Da Vinci : A book about the fate of art in the Third Reich and Second World War, published in 2006 by Laurel Publishing, LLC, of Dallas. Shelley C. Matthews worked as a research/editorial/archival consultant in the publication of this book.  www.rescuingdavinci.com

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