Holly Baxter

Education

Collecting art is a pleasurable and aesthetic endeavor that also requires special knowledge, market analysis and dedicated time looking and experiencing to develop connoisseurship and make informed decisions. HBA makes the art world transparent for our clients and assists them in navigating its complexities. We guide our clients through galleries, artists studios, art fairs, biennales, and auctions, and provide insight into the global art market and identify new developments.

Acquisition

HBA guides its clients through all aspects of acquisition from domestic and international art galleries, artist’s studios, private collections, and at auction. Our firm provides an assessment of value, pricing and market anaylysis, provenance, authenticity, and condition before each purchase. Transactions are undertaken with complete transparency on all details and costs of the acquisition.

Collection Management

HBA assists in all aspects of caring for our clients’ art collections and oversees all activities, from shipping, insurance, storage, framing, installation, archiving, documentation and conservation. HBA will manage museum and other institutional artwork loans, donations, and private resale/deaccessions.

Collections management is crucial for ensuring the proper care and management of the artworks, as well as for facilitating the asset focused growth and development for the collection over time. HBA’s collection services go hand in hand with the advisory and acquisition process.

Our team is trained in the museum standards of database collections management software in terms of the processing of documentation, location, and provenance. When it comes to these details of collections information and upkeep of asset documentation, our expertise is crucial.

A core feature of our collections management services,is our use of a highly secure best-of-class cloud-based collection management system for our clients geared toward providing centrally accessible collection management for personally owned art pieces. With robust and sophisticated features, the program is not only straightforward to operate but allows for easy accessibility from any internet-enabled computer, tablet, or smartphone. It includes precise location records for each art piece and the accurate date and time stamps for each location update to establish proper logs and chronological location histories, ensuring the highest security standards to ensure privacy.

Our firm offers customized solutions and private collection managment profiles for our clients to ensure that each piece of art is thourougly documented and accessible.

Art Experiences

HBA Art Advisory offers bespoke art experiences to promote encounters and foster community, including guided previews of international art fairs, private collection visits, artist studios, gallery, museum and auction previews, biennales, site specific art installaqtions, art destinations, and special art events worldwide for our clients and for private groups. The programs and destinations are hand-chosen, designed to be unique, and tailored to our clients interests for an informative and immersive experience.

Credentials

Holly Baxter is Principal in Holly Baxter & Associates LLC and is Executive Director for the Human Rights Foundation’s international art program, Art in Protest. She is also a Board Member at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. Previously Ms. Baxter served for seven years on the Board of Directors at SF Camerawork, the SECA commitee at SFMOMA, and the National Advisory Board of Artadia.

Ms. Baxter created, launched, and directed RH Contemporary Art (RHCA), the contemporary art division of RH (NYSE: RH), dedicated to bringing international artists to a global audience, showcasing their work on both an innovative web-based platform and in a 28,000 square foot gallery in New York City, and fostering their talent through an elite artist residency program in Brooklyn.