LaGare Fine Art Gallery
presents
A WORLD HERITAGE COLLECTION
We're inviting a conversation and access to LAGARE COLLECTIONS, a private art collection curated by the son of Gary D McDaniel, the LAGARE GALLERY founder.
This history of LAGARE GALLERY is only part of a bigger picture.
In 1961, LaGare opened The Attic Antiques, his first storefront. This successful venture would soon expand to an old riverboat lighthouse, a place where LaGare would establish The Lighthouse Antiques, Iowa Silver Plating Works, and LaGare Gallery, all situated on a historic riverfront property in Davenport, Iowa. Seems LaGare's vision was a cultural presence, which quickly resonated throughout the Midwest. His clientele list included the very famous flamboyant concert pianist, Liberace, as he was the world's highest-paid entertainer of that time. And I will never forget the legendary Tina Turner, traveling often from Chicago to negotiate the 'ART of the DEAL' with LaGare.
Expanding in the 1970s, LaGare would open The Old Goldmine gallery in Searchlight, Nevada, alongside operating a local turquoise mine near there. Then the 1980s brought three more LaGare Galleries, a Fountain Hills, Arizona location, and Scottsdale, Arizona. The Scottsdale gallery he opened within a prestigious new art district. But cherished more than any storefront was the secluded Sonoita, Arizona, gallery. This stop sign in the middle of nowhere gallery also curated monthly auctions for the ranch owners of Arizona's southern border.
I am proud to be the son of LaGare, a businessman, a promoter, a visionary, and the father of five. LaGare was a man with so many feathers collected in his very tall hat. As a promoter, LaGare quickly established the yearly Quad Cities Antique show, another prosperous journey that also flourished. And I will never forget the Harlem Globe-Trotters, another yearly event held at that same Rock Island, Illinois, location. From prestigious Chicago, Illinois, estate sales to caring for three hundred homing pigeons, LaGare was obviously a very busy man. He was my art teacher, my mentor, my father. LaGare had shown me the way and given me these most valuable hands. Best, education that money just can't buy. And I should mention, a night-club owner. Remember Disco.
