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Max Turns Down Request to Jury International art Exhibition

Selling Price of Paintings Doubles Since 1990s
Image Licensed For Cruise Ship Travel Ad
One of Top Two Artists
One of Max's Images is Reproduced in
Widely Disseminated Coupon Book
One of Tony Max's images has been reproduced in a coupon book this summer.

The image was reproduced in full colour in a coupon book advertisement for Osterson's Framing and Art – a North Vancouver art gallery and frame shop.

The coupon book is being widely distributed by ad mail in batches this summer to addresses on Vancouver's North Shore via the Post Office.

Osterson's Framing and Art had contacted the artist to ask permission to use the "Mosquito Creek" image in its ad, and the artist consented.

Max's art is among the most featured art on exhibit at Osterson's.
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Max Turns Down Request to Jury
Tony Max recently turned down an offer to act as a juror in an international art exhibition, or to take on the role of sole Canadian artist exhibiting art in that exhibition.

The artist was invited by the founder of The Common Ground Partnership, an international touring exhibition featuring art focused on theme of environmental sustainability and pollution prevention.

I was approached by the founder, Larry Richard, to consider being the sole artist to represent Canada in the “Celebrated Artist Series” that the organization will publish.

According to the founder, the artist selected will receive a lot of internationally focused attention and press both for this one piece, for his body of work in general, and for his support in raising awareness about sustainability issues.

Although Max lauds the organization's goals of promoting environmental awareness, he turned down the offers because of time constraints, and because signing the agreement would have meant ceding licensing rights to the organization.

According to the rules of the international exhibition, at least one of Max's images would have been published as open edition prints under the auspices of the organization, making a conflict of interest for the artist to publish limited editions of the same image(s).
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Selling Price of Paintings Doubles Since 1990s

The selling price of Tony Max paintings has doubled since the 1990s.

The calculation is based on the unit price (the selling price per square inch or per square foot of the paintings.)

The selling price of Tony Max paintings rose by an average of about nine percent per year over the last 11 years.

The dramatic increase in the selling prices of the originals attests to the fact that the artist's stature continues to grow.

A few gallerists have been competing fiercely to have his paintings consigned at their galleries.

In 2004 two unrelated gallerists operating separate galleries threatened to punish Max – to reduce or stop buying his prints for their respective galleries – if he didn't consign his latest paintings at their galleries!

One of those two art dealers demanded that Max consign his paintings at the gallerist's gallery instead of at the competitors' galleries!

Some of the gallerists have also vied for Max's originals by claiming that the other venues he had been contemplating would be inappropriate venues.

The artist didn't like the threats, and consequently severed his relationships with the two threatening dealers (who were frequently cantankerous on various matters anyway).

The good news is that the threats, requests and other tough bargaining tactics that some of the art dealers have used to jockey for the selling rights to Max's paintings illustrates the significant demand for his paintings.

Tony Max produce only about six or seven paintings per year, so his paintings are rare.
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Image licensed for cruise ship travel ad
Tony Max has licensed his "Evening Departure" image to be used in a cruise ship advertisement.

In May of 2006, a detail of the image appeared in colour as the feature image on the front panel of a flyer for the cruise ship industry.

The flyer, advertising cruise ship travel, was distributed to approximately 11,000 homes in West and North Vancouver that have views of Burrard Inlet and the cruise ships that ply it.

The travel agency is Roseway Travel of West Vancouver.


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One of the top two artists in British Columbia
Osterson's Framing and Art of North Vancouver has chosen Tony Max as one of the top two artists for depicting the beauty and variety of the province of British Columbia. The gallery is in North Vancouver. See the gallery's Web site for the text and pictures.
Original Prints Versus Giclées
In North Vancouver, 2005.

Max also has the honour of being the only artist who has limited edition prints exhibited at the fashionable Kimprints 41 Powell Street in downtown Vancouver).

He is one of only two artists with limited edition prints exhibited at Prints Charming Framing (2048 West 4th Avenue in Vancouver).

Both of those galleries have substantial collections of Tony Max's artwork.
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