Hiring a Consultant to Catalog Your Art Collection

     As a book and art collector I know the huge amount of work it takes to document a large collection.  My Art Collection software is a great application for helping you to document your art collection.  But, what if you are too busy to actually do this task on your own?  With an art collection the details are pretty complex, critical and more variable than with a  book collection so doing it yourself or having it be a family project is sometime challenging.  The best way to do this, if you are not going to do it yourself is to pay a specialist to do this for you.

     Finding the right consultant for you is key.  Some of the things you should be looking for in this person are:

1-Does this person have a strong knowledge of Art History and the Art World specifically?
2-Are they very detail oriented and well organized (did they come to the meeting and forget their laptop?)
3-They should have experience with an art database like My Art Collection.
4-They should have extensive experience with photo documentation and editing.
5-They need to have the kind of personality and professional demeanor to be good with a specific client and be able to adapt to the services needed by that client, and finally
6-They need to have a strong connection, or great understanding, of the art community eg. dealers, artists appraisers, galleries and museums.

     At My Art Collection we have worked with thousands of collectors over the last 10 years but had very little interaction with consultants who fit the salient points above.  in the last year a new name came onto the scene in Toronto Canada.   Megan Kalaman is a consultant with all the experience listed above.  She has used My Art Collection with many clients and her business is growing organically by recommendations of one collector to another.  We know her as dilligent, intelligent and hard working.   As a company, we highly recommend her services.

http://www.megankalaman.com/

Megan Kalaman mkc@megankalaman.com

    Ultimately you need to have this done.  Whether you are doing it yourself or have a personal assistant who can be trusted to do this task, it needs to be done to protect your collection.