Digital BW, The Print

Harry,

Perhaps you should begin your valuation search at the IRS web site.  Let us
know what you learn.  I know we'd all be interested.  Good luck.

On 6/12/07, hflockwood <hflockwood@...> wrote:
>
>   In a juried process, I was selected to exhibit my (B&W) prints at a
> non-profit art center in VT
> (Northeast Kingdom.) The prints are archival (carbon on cotton: MIS
> quadtone, HFA paper)
> and are professionally matted and (16x20) framed. There will be 25 prints
> in the month-
> long exhibit.
>
> Since the center is in the midst of a fund raising effort, I'm
> contemplating donating the entire
> collection to their building fund, rather than trying to sell them.
> Obviously, this raises the
> question of how to value the collection for tax purposes.
>
> The materials cost to me of putting the collection together is about $150
> per print, with no
> value given to my time or to the artistic value of the prints included.
>
> So, if I am to claim a charitable deduction, how do I value the donation?
> The center has
> agreed that $400 per print, or $10,000 for the collection, would be easily
> justified.
>
> I'm looking for guidance from others who may have faced a similar
> situation.
>
> TIA.
>
> Harry
>
>  
>


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