TRANSPORTATION

CV Fine Art Services offers fine art shipping throughout the United States. Our shuttle runs the Eastern seaboard bi-monthly and the southern route to Florida during the alternate weeks. The shuttle trucks are climate-controlled, air-ride and are staffed with two service representatives/art handlers.

The service representatives responsible for the shuttle runs have experience handling every type of fragile object. They have extensive knowledge of various packing and/or crating methodologies as well as vast experience with art installation or de-installation.

When CV FAS shuttle services do not adequately meet the needs of our clients, we will, with your permission, contract with another specialized fine art shipper to provide service. We have strong relationships with various fine art service companies that have proven to be capable of providing the quality of service that our clients have learned to expect when contracting with CV FAS.

CV Fine Art Services has the capability to provide Exclusive Use and Last On First Off service when requested. Our tractor-trailer and straight trucks have been scheduled for various projects throughout the United States on an Exclusive Use basis.

LOCAL SERVICES

Our experienced art handlers offer museum quality services including packing, crating, installation, and de-installation throughout the Metro Atlanta area. You will find personnel qualifications of the art handlers below; they have over 40 years of combined experience in the museum quality service field.

Our newly designed crate shop contains state of the art equipment. CV Fine Art Services is one of a very few professional craters in Atlanta to have the capacity to provide EU compliant crates for international shipments.

Our crating department discusses specifications and needs with clients whenever possible to produce the design that best suits each individual project. Our experience has included building crates for the return of Ramesses I to Egypt, a crate to ship the masthead from the Andrea Doria to a museum in Milan, and crates to expedite an exhibition of over 100 mixed media pieces by a renowned folk artist to a museum show in Texas.

PERSONNEL

The CV Fine Art Services personnel constitute the most professional team possible and have over forty (40) years of cumulative experience with all aspects of art handling.

Mark Pennell

• MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University
• BFA, Atlanta College of Art
• Director of Operations, CV Fine Art Services, 2003-Present
• Director of Operations, Fine Arts Express, 1996-2003
• Museum Technician, Washington DC and Atlanta, GA 1986-1996
• Select Projects:
  1. "Returning Ramesses I to Egypt"- crating and local transportation for the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
  2. Georgia State Capitol Museum of Natural History and Industry relocation
  3. America's Smithsonian - The 150th Anniversary Tour
  4. Georgia State Capitol Plaques relocation
  5. Georgia Tech School of Architecture Archives relocation
  6. Swan House at The Atlanta History Center relocation
  7. "Dresses for Humanity"
  8. Calhoun House at Clemson University relocation
  9. Old Governor's Mansion at Milledgeville relocation
  10. "Empire of the Sultans"- installation for the Museum of Arts and Sciences
  11. Scouting Values Tour 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003
  12. National Defense University - de-installation, transit and installation of 500 pieces of artwork
  13. Relocation of State Representative Tom Murphy's Office
  14. Georgia-Pacific installation
  15. The High Museum storage packing and relocation
  16. Bank of America Mechanical Bank Traveling Exhibition
  17. Bank of America relocation of Executive Offices
  18. Relocation and installation of corporate art collection of Arnall, Golden, & Gregory, LLP
  19. Packing of crates for Museum of Fine Arts Houston traveling exhibition, "Thornton Dial in the 21st Century"

Matthew Rausch

• MFA, The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London, England
• BFA Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
• The University of Leeds, University College of Ripon & York St. John, London, England
• Service Representative, CV Fine Art Services, 2003-Present
• Service Representative, Fine Arts Express, 2001-2003
• Chief Art Preparator, Fine Art Installers, 1995-2001
• Select Projects:
  1. "Returning Ramesses I to Egypt"- crating and local transportation for the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
  2. Cox Enterprises, Atlanta, GA (art installation)
  3. "Rembrandt to Gainsborough" Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery J. R. Speed Museum exhibition installation
  4. Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA
  5. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (art installation)
  6. Clark Atlanta University Museum, Atlanta, GA; packing of Phillips Academy Exhibition
  7. Old Governor's Mansion at Milledgeville relocation
  8. Relocation of State Representative Tom Murphy's Office
  9. Georgia-Pacific installation
  10. The High Museum storage packing and relocation
  11. Bank of America Mechanical Bank Traveling Exhibition
  12. Bank of America relocation of Executive Offices
  13. Built crates for the RMS Titanic traveling exhibition
  14. Primary crate builder for Museum of Fine Arts Houston traveling exhibition "Thornton Dial in the 21st Century"
  15. Relocation and installation of corporate art collection of Arnall, Golden, & Gregory, LLP

Tony Howell

• Exhibitions Manager/Preparator, Booth Western Art Museum, 2000-2003
• Lead Preparator, Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2003-2007
• Service Representative, CV Fine Art Services, 2007- Present