Tad Crawford is an attorney, publisher, and author of Legal Guide for the Visual Artist, The Writer's Legal Guide, The Secret Life of Money, and the Business and Legal Forms series of books for fine artists, craftspeople, graphic designers, illustrators, photographers, and authors and self-publishers.

Susan Mellon served as a director of Artist/Craftsmen's Information Service of Washington, D.C., and was active within that organization in the development of the Standard Art Consignment Agreement.

Essential reading for artists, art dealers, and gallery owners, The Artist-Gallery Partnership: A Practical Guide to Consigning Art offers a unique and thorough discussion of consignment that clarifies all aspects of this crucial art world relationship. The book presents a provision-by-provision explanation of the Standard Art Consignment Agreement, a model contract between artist and dealer suitable for use. The contract is flexible, making it ideal for establishing consignment arrangements that are mutually beneficial. It covers agency, consignment, warranties, transportation responsibilities, insurance coverage, pricing, gallery's commission, promotion, return of art, and much more.

The Artist-Gallery Partnership provides artists and dealers with guidelines for sound business negotiations as well as ideas for resolving disputes. The revised edition contains a new chapter on state consignment legislation, and includes a sample of the Standard Art Consignment Agreement, an inventory sheet/receipt for artworks on consignment, and the texts of the art consignment laws enacted in more than thirty states.