Concept Art Gallery has an upcoming online and in-building auction of fine art, design, and art glass on Saturday, December 6th starting at 10 AM Eastern Standard Time. If you are an out-of-town buyer, we’ll be happy to help you in the pick-up, packing, shipping, and insuring of your purchase. We are an authorized Concept Art Gallery shipping partner and offer special pricing to their clients.
We have been pleased to help rising local artist, Vanessa German with the crating and shipping of her pieces to museums, galleries, and collectors across the country. Ms German was recently covered in a Huffington Post article where she talks about her “power doll” pieces and her community work with children. She has been chosen as a feature artist in the Crystal Bridges Museum’s State Of The Art exhibit and her works are also displayed at the Pavel Zoubok Gallery in NYC. Many of Ms German’s pieces are created from recycled artifacts found in her neighborhood. Her mixed media assemblages present special challenges in successfully packing, crating, and shipping, but we have risen to the challenge.
Need help at your place of business with packing, palletizing, or crating? Our fully-insured onsite team can come to you with a wide range of services:
Contact us for a free in-person or phone consultation, or get a quote now via the web.
See what clients have to say about Pak Mail Pittsburgh’s service.
One of the greatest pleasures in the our business is helping folks with transporting important family treasures. Here’s a review sent to us by a gentleman from Honolulu who we helped get an oversized heirloom painting from Pittsburgh to Hawaii
Aloha Mike,
You read my mind, I was going to email you this morning when I woke up.
The painting did arrive in perfect condition. I normally don’t have issues with long distance shipping, however this one was a major concern since it was a family heirloom being passed on to me.
When I began researching online, your company was the first that I saw…and when I compared your services with others, there was no comparison. From my first correspondence and all the way through the process and right up to delivery, your customer care was exemplary. My family even reported to me how impressed they were with the two young men were who picked up the painting…dressed well and held a pleasant conversation with them. You made me feel completely comfortable with the fact that this painting, which reflected my childhood and family history, was in very capable and safe hands.
Mike, thank you so much for doing what you do so well. You customer service is perfection! Should additional shipping be in my future, from my childhood home in Moon Township, you will be the only person that I will call. Please thank your staff for all their help.
Aloha,
Frank L.,Honolulu, HI
The days of Big Steel are long gone in Western Pennsylvania. But the era of mills lighting up the night skies with fire and smoke lives on in the work of Aaron Gorson, who specialized in painting nocturnal landscapes of the region’s industrial past. One of Gorson’s finest, “Steelmaking at Night on the Mon,” is among the highlights at Concept Art Gallery’s fine art and antiques auction Nov. 1.
Painted in 1910, the oil-on-canvas is housed in a hand-carved, gilded Arts-and-Crafts-period frame. The painting was once owned by Arthur Riley, a noted collector of works by Western Pennsylvania artists.
Another painting with a regional background and a completely different point of view is an A.F. King daytime rural lakeside landscape. Best known for his nearly lifelike still lifes, King also journeyed into the local countryside to paint. Concept owner Sam Berkovitz calls this work the greatest A.F. King landscape he’s seen, citing the intricate detail in the tiny work. Sold by Pittsburgh’s famed Gillespie Gallery in the early 20th century, the 51⁄2-inch-by-9-inch work, titled “Lake Landscape With Sailboat,” rests in a gilded Victorian frame decorated with extensive scrolling.
Other paintings in the sale with local ties are Daniel Ridgeway Knight’s oil-on-canvas “The Washerwoman Along the Seine” and several pieces by Mary McKibbin. An ex-pat from Chambersburg, Franklin County, Knight worked mainly in France, and “The Washerwoman” was originally sold by the Gillespie Gallery. McKibbin, whose oil-on-board scenes depict Pittsburgh neighborhoods, taught at Schenley High School, where Andy Warhol was one of her students.
In the antiques section of the sale, bidders can compete for an elegant Tiffany Arabian-style desk lamp or a Pairpoint “Puffy” boudoir lamp. The sale includes a sizeable amount of high-end jewelry, such as a 3.3-carat pear-cut brilliant diamond ring set in platinum. Also in the mix are Eskimo art, a “crazy quilt” crafted by public-school students in Idaho, early maps of Pittsburgh, silver flatware and serving pieces, accessories, mint coin sets and art glass.
Previews are at Concept Art Gallery from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, until 8 p.m. Thursdays or online The sale will start at 10 a.m. Nov 1. Previews and the sale will be at 1031 S. Braddock Ave., Regent Square. Details: 412-242-9200 or www.conceptgallery.com
Pak Mail Pittsburgh Crate & Ship is pleased to announce that we have added a dedicated team and vehicle fleet to service commercial and residential clients needing “final mile” and white glove delivery services in the Greater Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, and Northern West Virginia areas. This experienced team is dedicated to providing shipment receiving and warehousing services, and inside delivery and white glove delivery services including light assembly. We also provide pick-up and packing/crating services for product returns. Here’s a link to a full listing of our commercial services we provide for office equipment suppliers, furniture & decor manufacturers and distributors, display & fixture providers, and logistic management companies. Are you a homeowner looking to have someone receive and inside deliver a freight shipment to you in the Greater Pittsburgh area? Here’s a links to our residential services.
The best part of the shipping business is the variety of folks, items, and destinations you deal with. Here’s a quick sample from the past week:
Here are some pictures of a crating job we completed this week. Six crates of large gas metering equipment being shipped by ocean overseas. Two of the equipment pieces measured 28 feet long by 10 feet wide by 10 feet high and weighed 35,000 lbs each. All equipment needed to be wrapped in soft-foam and marine-grade plastic prior to crating.
Pak Mail Pittsburgh Crate & Ship offers the full range of export packing options. We recently completed packing and crating all the components of an MRI machine. Shown in the picture below is the large head unit of the machine wrapped with a 7 mil marine grade, heat shrink polyethylene. Desiccant conforming to Mil-D-3464 was placed inside the polyethylene, prior to being sealed. This wrapping protects the unit against moisture and the corrosive nature of sea air when shipping via ocean cargo.
Check out this New York Times Magazine Article on the Brazilian collector that purchased the three million plus records collection of Pittsburgh’s Paul Mawhinney. Pak Mail Pittsburgh Crate & Ship packed up this collection (eight 53′ trailers in all) that was sold to Zero Freitas of San Paulo. To quote one of the our packing crew, “digital music never seemed sweeter than after packing millions of heavy vinyl records”!