Arts Rescue Mission -Aid For Aging Artists
Art Collection Documentation, Moving, Storage & Estate Planning Services
Arts Rescue Mission helps artists, collectors, families, and estates organize art collections before downsizing, gifting, donation, resale, insurance review, or storage.
Document the Collection
We photograph, identify, number, and organize artworks, antiques, books, furniture, memorabilia, and collectibles for insurance, estate planning, gifting, donation, or resale. Depending on what is involved fees average $17.50 per object. Finances will be taken into consideration and pro bono will be considered depending on circumstances.
Move, Store, and Protect the Work
We help artists, collectors, and families prepare collections for safe moving, storage, and future access. Rates start at $180 an hour or two movers and a Truck plus materials. Minimum 4 hours. Please inquire for further information at artsrescue2025@gmail.com
Gift, Donate, or Sell with Better Information
A documented collection is easier to share with family, offer to institutions, place in storage, insure, or prepare for resale.
Move, Store, and Protect the Work
We help artists, collectors, families, and estates prepare collections for safe moving, storage, and future access.
Sell, Gift, Donate, or Store with Better Information
A documented collection is easier to understand, protect, divide, offer for sale, share with family, donate to institutions, insure, or place in storage.
Art Legacy Exchange
Art Legacy Exchange is a private online collection review and placement area where selected works can be organized for possible sale, gifting, donation, or transfer to new caretakers.
Many collectors, artists, and families want to know what may have resale value before they begin giving things away. Arts Rescue Mission can help identify which pieces may be appropriate to offer for sale, which works should be documented more carefully, and which pieces may be better suited for family selection, donation, or gifting.
Below is a gallery example. (not real) - please click on our lock box for more information!
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Ask About Collection Services. Please get in touch with us and we will post your art and collectables destined for giving for free. Please contact us: artsrescue2025@gmail.com
Click on security box to see an example of gifting page for friends, family, and associates (Lockbox? That's for the valuables are, right? ;-)
Registered users may list selected artworks from a collection that is being downsized, moved, inherited, reorganized, or prepared for storage. Works can be presented with photographs, assigned numbers, and available information such as artist, title, date, medium, size, condition, and provenance.
Some works may be offered for sale when appropriate. Others may be made available to family members, friends, associates, museums, schools, nonprofits, or institutions that may have an interest in preserving them. The goal is to help collections move forward with care, rather than disappear into storage or be dispersed without records.
Listings are generally available for a limited two-week review period to keep the process clear and efficient. After consultation, Arts Rescue Mission can help determine which pieces may need fuller documentation, which may have market or historical value, and which can simply be numbered for easier family or friend selection.
Not every object needs full cataloging. Some collections only need a practical inventory and photographs. Others may require more detailed identification before decisions are made about sale, donation, gifting, storage, or future estate planning.
Art Legacy Exchange is intended as a practical resource for helping art find its next home while preserving the collection’s value, history, and legacy.