About Strata Fine Art Services

Strata Fine Art Services is a minority, woman-owned, Christian firm founded in 2004 with American Society of Appraisals appraisers. The firm provides financial and legal services professionals with expert USPAP-compliant appraisals and solutions-driven art market reports designed to help them establish their brands as arts investment leaders so they can grow their clients' portfolios.

Specialties

Modern and Contemporary fine art.
Fine art appraisals (estate tax, probate, insurance, charitable deduction, personal liquidations, and business dissolutions),
Forensic appraisals on artworks lost to damage, theft, or fire.
Art-market advice for investment-strategy purposes.

Significant Accomplishments

The strength of our stringent research methodology on a forensic appraisal enabled a top DC law firm to settle a case of stolen works out-of-court on behalf of a regional art-fair client.
Our comprehensive appraisal report on the work of an obscure artist withstood a rigorous IRS audit. The report enabled the client to receive the full value claimed for an estate- and charitable-tax deductions from The Art Advisory Panel of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue at the IRS. Full-value approval is a rarity in the fine art appraisal industry.
Armed with precedents from case law, our art-market advice helped a client successfully receive the 30% deduction due from an insurance company after the client suffered a total loss to irreplaceable artworks and cultural ephemera that occurred because of a vendor's negligence.