Article 02. ARTISTS AND WORKS OF ART
Sec. 45.65.250. Definitions.
(1) "art dealer" means a person engaged
in the business of selling works of art, other than a person exclusively
engaged in the business of selling goods at public auction;
(2) "artist" means the creator of a work
of art or, if deceased, the heirs or personal representatives of the
creator;
(3) "consignment" means that no title
to or estate in the goods or right to possession superior to that of
the consignor vests in the consignee, notwithstanding the consignee's
power or authority to transfer and convey, to third person, all of the
right, title and interest of the consignor, in and to the goods;
(4) "creditor" has the meaning given in AS
45.01.201;
(5) "work of art" means an original or
multiple original art work including:
(A) visual art such as a painting, sculpture,
drawing, mosaic, or photograph;
(B) calligraphy;
(C) graphic art such as an etching,
lithograph, offset print, or silk screen;
(D) craft work in clay, textile, fiber,
wood, metal, plastic, or glass materials;
(E) mixed media such as a college or
any combination of art media in this paragraph;
(F) art employing traditional native
materials such as ivory, bone, grass, baleen, animal skins, wood and
furs.
