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Specialized Advice to Help Navigate the Complexities of the Art World
Our Approach
At U.S. Trust, we offer extensive art services. We provide solutions for collectors and institutions while helping to navigate the complex art world. For individuals, we help collectors unlock capital via Bank of America by lending against collections when certain criteria are met. We also help design estate plan options to address tax and other implications of a collection, and help collectors prepare for a sale via consignment services. For institutions, we provide nonprofit advisory services, including endowment management and institutional investment management ranging from a collaborative model to a complete Outsourced Chief Investment Officer(OCIO) option.
Whatever your specific goals are for your collection, our range of
capabilities, along with our commitment to the arts, can help us deliver a broad
combination of services while considering the legacy and potential of
your collection as part of your overall financial goals.
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Evan Beard - Hi, my name is Evan Beard. I’m the national Art Services executive at U.S. Trust.
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Evan Beard
Art Services Executive
Evan Beard: U.S. Trust Art Services comprises four key capabilities.
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Art Lending
Art Planning
Consignment Services
Arts Institutional Services
Evan Beard: Art Lending, Art Planning, Consignment Services, and Arts Institutional Services.
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Art Lending
Evan Beard: We have one of the largest art lending businesses in the world. Whether it’s unlocking capital while keep the art on the wall to buy real estate, or to use as a working capital line for your small business, and in even some cases to pay down estate taxes, or to just buy more art.
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Art Planning
Evan Beard: At U.S. Trust we have a dedicated team of art planning specialists, whether it’s tax planning, philanthropic planning, transitioning their art into a museum, or building a museum around their collection, we’re there to navigate the disposition of the collection, and help collectors develop a legacy around that collection.
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Consignment Services
Evan Beard: Consignment services is a service we provide for our clients who want to save dollars on the consignment process. We can eliminate fees, negotiate guarantees through our official relationships with many of the auction houses.
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Non-Profit Services
Evan Beard: At U.S. Trust we have a very big institutional philanthropic business. We have a team of art specialists that will work with your entity on developing a strategic plan to operate within this very unique ecosystem known as the art world.
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Evan Beard: So our art service group resides within U.S. Trust, which is part of a broad enterprise that has a deep long-lasting commitment to the art space. We’ll fund projects all around the world of museums and the conservation of some of their great paintings.
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Evan Beard: That commitment to the arts gives us a good bit of credibility, not only with the individual collector, but also that arts organization or arts institution.
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Evan Beard: They feel very good about the fact that we’ve committed ourselves as an enterprise and support the arts in a very big way.
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