Credentials
Amanda Mantle Winstead is a highly qualified and experienced appraiser and art specialist. For over eight years, she worked as an appraiser and specialist for Neal Auction Company in New Orleans, Louisiana where she was the Director of Consignments. In March 1999, she founded her own appraisal company, Winstead Associates, Inc. She is a Member of the Appraisers Association of America, the most elite and select appraisal organization in the United States. Ms. Winstead has appraised, auctioned and sold thousands of works of art worth tens of millions of dollars. In the spring of 2000, she discovered a painting by the 19th c. Austrian artist Eugene de Blaas in Shreveport, Louisiana. It sold that June at auction in New Orleans for $484,000 and until May 2006 was the most expensive piece of art to ever sell at auction in Louisiana.
Ms. Winstead has a Masters of Business Administration from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Newcomb College at Tulane University. She attended the Museum Studies and the Arts Program of the Washington Semester Program at American University in Washington, D.C. She completed the Certificate Program in the Appraisal of Fine and Decorative Art at New York University in the Summer of 1995. She has been a Member of the Appraisers Association of America since 2000.
Ms. Winstead has appraised many important collections for museums, institutions, estates, and private collectors. She has appraised the collections of the LSU Museum of Art in Baton Rouge, the Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana, the James K. Polk Presidential Home in Columbia, Tennessee, Tezcuco Plantation and Chretien Point Plantation in Louisiana, as well as the Walter Anderson murals in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. She has also completed donation appraisals for The Louisiana State Museum, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Newcomb Art Gallery, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the University of Alabama-Birmingham, and Tulane University among others.
In addition to lecturing on paintings and the appraisal of fine art, Ms. Winstead has been interviewed for numerous national magazine articles and local television news stories on art and antique appraising, regional auction houses, the art market, and Newcomb Pottery, including publications such as Art & Antiques. She has participated in numerous ?Appraisal Days? in conjunction with the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia, the Louisiana State Museum, Hibernia National Bank, and the Hermann-Grima/Gallier House Museums in New Orleans, the Spring Street Museum in Shreveport, Louisiana, and the University Art Museum at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette.
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