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A Note from Conrad Cafritz, Owner of The River Inn & Chairman of Potomac Hospitality Services
The art collection at The River Inn reflects the art of the times. More figurative than abstract, all of the artists have been exhibited in leading art galleries and several have been exhibited in major museum shows or are part of the acquisitions by museums of younger artists. The focus of the collection at The River Inn is to challenge our guests and their visitors without causing consternation. We hope we succeed.
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RGB Dragon
Three symmetrical mandala forms executed via computer program through a digital algorithmic
code, by Siebren Versteeg, a young digital imagery artist who shows at Max Protetch Gallery
in NYC and has exhibited at The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio.Mr. Versteeg’s
art has been purchased by the Yale Art Gallery and other museums
Siebren Versteeg, 2007
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An Exaggerated State of Consciousness
Comedic drawing of a martini glass and a red stop light. Thomas Schutte is German and one of the leading modern
sculptors in Europe. He accompanies massive sculpture work in steel and bronze with one book of
drawings every two years. He was a featured artist in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
in 2005, where he won the Golden Lion award as the leading artist, and shows at the Marian Goodman Gallery in NYC.
Thomas Schutte
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Florian Maier-Aichen is a young German photographer who attended UCLA and had 3 photographs in
the Whitney Biennial of 2006. In this photograph a toy model of ship is superimposed onto a river
photograph by the photographer.Maier-Aichen shows at Blum& Poe in LA and 303 Gallery in NYC and has
work in the LA Museum of Contemporary Art.His work will be among the few featured in the fall 2007
auction for the Guggenheim Museum Gala in NYC.
Florian Maier-Aichen, 2005
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Leaf Line
William Wegman’s (No Suggestions) photographs are among the most famous art photographic
images in the world.In 2006 Mr. Wegman had major retrospective show of his work at the
Brooklyn Museum and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.Earlier he has had major shows
throughout Europe including the Centre Pompidou in Paris.All the (No Suggestions) in Wegman’s
work direct descendants of Man Ray, with the first photos published in 1970.These photos develop
from proofs from a 20x24” Polaroids.Wegman’s work can be purchased at the Adamson Gallery in DC and Pace MacGill in NY.
William Wegman
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Franz Jantzen is photographer who manipulates the color of black and white photographs.
The River Inn commissioned Mr. Jantzen to take photographs of the C & O Canal for the rooms at
The River Inn. Mr. Jantzen shows at George Hemphill Gallery in DC.
Franz Jantzen
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