Artfest International, Inc (fka ARTS)

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The Masonic Art Foundation is a family owned and operated fine arts and antiques gallery dedicated to trading and selling rare, museum quality sculptures, paintings, furniture and other collectibles. With beautiful pieces from names such as Picasso, Bierdstadt, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Sisley and Frank Lloyd Wright, the Foundation furnishes and decorates lavish private and commercial residences. The Masonic Art Foundation has also worked closely with highly respected museums, loaning pieces of the collection to prestigious centers of fine art and antiques. The Foundation is always interested in entertaining offers to trade parts of it's art collection for commercial and private property, as well as other rare art and collectibles.



The Masonic Art Foundation's private family gallery has never before been open to the public. Since the Wickers and Bailys joined through marriage in the 1860s, the family has traded in rare musical instruments, coins, fine art, antiques, and custom cars. Barry Wicker, the great grandson of the original Wicker-Baily matrimony, has used his experience as a commodity broker on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to continue in the family tradition of art trading. Over the past 40 years he has diversified the Wicker portfolio and has now established the Foundation to showcase an amazing art collection that has spanned over three centuries.



Master Mason Barry Wicker, the artistic intellect behind the concept of the Masonic Art Foundation, designs and furnishes hotels and high-end private residences with museum art from the family vault. He is a painter and expert in art history, fine art and antiques, and has decades of experience in collecting, trading and selling high-valued museum quality pieces. The Master Mason has a keen knowledge and eye for putting together extravagant decorative statements and he is extremely excited to discuss the details of the gallery.