More About Jane…
Ms. Eckert is currently Chair of the President's Circle at Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She has served as the Chair of the Director's Advisory Council at Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA, and as the Secretary of the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA). Litchfield Magazine recently named her as one of the "25 Most Influential People" for 2017 in Litchfield County, Connecticut. She is a partner in Coats Wright Art and Design in Carmel, Indiana, and is the exclusive representative of the American Realist painter Eric Forstmann.
Curated Shows
2016 "Master Realist, the art of Robert Cottingham" Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
2012 "Seeing Ourselves, Eric Forstmann" Evansville Museum of Art and Science, Indiana
2008 "Fruit, Fabric, Cash, Clouds: Eric Forstmann" Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
2005 "Robert Rauschenberg Masterworks" Germany
2004 "Chinese Landscapes+Seven Chinese Characters" a joint show on Robert Rauschenberg and Roy Lichtenstein, Florida
2003 "The Gates: a Project for Central Park" Christo and Jeanne Claude Gallery of Fine Art, Edison College, Trenton, NJ
2002 "Beamer Paintings and the BMW Art Car" a reuniting of the artist Robert Rauschenberg and his BMW art car, Florida
2001 "Lyrical Constructivist Don Gummer" Evansville Museum of Art and Science, Indiana
2000 "Art and Archives," an exhibition on Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Florida
1999 "Rauschenberg/Pottorf" at the Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
1997 "Winterworks: Robert Rauschenberg and Darryl Pottorf" Naples Philharmonic Museum of Art, Florida
1996 "Theodore Clement Steele: An American Master of Light" Evansville Museum of Art and Science, Indiana
Ms. Eckert has also published many books on American artists and lectured at several museums, most recently at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.
Books and Catalogues
EFA, etc. a book detailing the repertoire of artists represented by Eckert Fine Art
The Hoosier Group: Five American Painters by Judith Newton and Dr. William H. Gerdts
Fruit, Fabric, Cash, Clouds: Eric Forstmann Works 1990-2007 a book that complimented an exhibition of Eric Forstmann at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, OH
Interior/Exterior: The Work of Eric Forstmann, a book that complimented exhibitions of Eric Forstmann at the Kemper Museum of Art in Kansas City, MI and the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science in Evansville, IN