45 Years Ago -- In 1978, after collecting art for many years, Roy Saper started an art gallery at his East Lansing, Michigan home on an appointment basis. It was then known as 20th Century Fine Arts. He built his inventory by surveying prominent people in the community to see what artists they like most, and then proceeded to buy artworks by most of the artists named. Included were Agam, Appel, Braque, Calder, Chagall, Dali, Magritte, Peter Max, Miro, Henry Moore, Picasso, Norman Rockwell, Ben Shahn, and Vasarely, among others.

40 Years Ago -- In 1983 Roy traveled to Japan to select and purchase a large collection of bright, contemporary, compelling, high-quality silkscreen prints by Fumio Tomita.

35 Years Ago -- In 1988, two years after moving into our new downtown East Lansing Saper Galleries building, we created exhibitions of still life mezzotint engravings by (Korean) K.B. Hwang and (Japan's) Tomoe Yokoi, the contemporary Chinese artist Jiang, and ethereal urbanscapes of Robert Kipniss.

30 Years Ago -- In 1993 we acquired and opened a major exhibition of 44 Rembrandt etchings

25 Years Ago -- In 1998 we eliminated our outdoor sculpture courtyard and added 2,010 square feet of gallery space to the west side of our building (now referred to as our west gallery). The space is naturally illuminated by a 48-foot long skylight and three large dome skylights.

20 Years Ago -- In 2003 we exhibited impressionist landscapes and still life paintings by local artist Barbara McCleary, mezzotint engravings by French artist Laurent Schkolnyk, and our second exhibition of paintings, watercolors, sculpture, drawings, and limited edition lithographs by Spanish artist Sunol Alvar.

15 Years Ago -- In 2008 we hosted a major exhibition of artwork by Theodor Seuss Geisel, known to most as Dr. Seuss. The Seuss display was the most popular exhibition in our 45 years. We stopped counting guests after 20,000 visited. You will recognize some of his most popular book images in the artworks shown in this flipbook referenced above.

10 Years Ago -- In 2013 We had three exhibitions: Magic Realism of Rob Gonsalves for whom we've received more requests than any other artist, Cocobolo (wooden) Bowls and Boxes from Costa Rica, and the estate paintings of Dutch-born, Michigan-then-Chicago-settled artist Tunis Ponsen (for whom we have a dedicated exhibition space off our west gallery).

5 Years Ago -- In 2018 we celebrated our 40th anniversary exhibiting the sensitive beauty and exquisite mezzotints of Japan's Mikio Watanabe.

Paintings, prints, sculptures, documents -- we can properly restore them so they look like new!

We have many clients who inherit older works of art or buy art at estate sales or auctions and discover that the artworks need cleaning, repairing, and other restoration treatment. Email us photos of what you would like to consider having restored and we will advise you of what can be achieved with proper professional treatment.

You can see several examples of our successful restoration treatments on our About page -- and you may also have interest in viewing this before and after comparison.

We can email or print and mail or deliver gift certificate for any art and/or custom framing services at SAPER GALLERIES. Let us know the dollar amount and the text you'd like to appear on the gift certificate and we will quickly email you a draft for your approval. Contact us and we will respond immediately and guarantee electronic delivery to anyone, anywhere for any date and time! Give a gift certificate and let them choose!

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