Preservation Through Commerce

Every masterpiece
deserves to be found

Museum-quality nature photography prints by Ilona Sky — wildflowers, landscapes, forests, starting at $49. And fine art prints from a 114-piece inherited collection, nearly lost, now available to take home.

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We inherited sixty years of paintings we didn't know what to do with. Within two months, half the collection found new homes — and the rest are now catalogued and preserved online. It felt less like selling and more like finishing my grandmother's work. — The Hartwell Family, Colorado
The Origin

Art that was almost lost forever

Behind every inherited collection is a story. Generations of taste, curiosity, and passion condensed into canvases and carved stone. Left in storage, these works fade into anonymity. LostCanvas exists to reverse that trajectory, to give forgotten art a second life, a new audience, and a permanent home in the digital world.

1000+
Original works in the founding collection
3
Revenue channels: exhibitions, auctions, merchandise
$18.9B
Projected online art market by 2033
How It Works

Discover. Collect. Remember.

01

Virtual Museum

Walk through curated digital galleries. Each piece tells its story, its provenance, the hands it passed through. Exhibitions rotate, keeping the experience alive and worth revisiting.

02

Live Auctions

Bid on original works from the collection. Transparent pricing, real provenance, and the thrill of acquiring something that was nearly lost to time. Each sale preserves a piece of history.

03

Curated Merchandise

Museum-quality prints, posters, and apparel featuring standout pieces from the collection. Take the art home, wear the story. Every purchase supports the preservation mission.

Nature Photography

Bring the wild home.
Museum-quality prints.

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Golden Hour Meadow fine art print
Golden Hour Meadow
Wildflowers · 8×10
$49unframed
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Morning Mist on Still Water fine art print
Morning Mist on Still Water
Landscapes · 8×10
$49unframed
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Autumn Canopy fine art print
Autumn Canopy
Forests · 8×10
$49unframed
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First Light on the Ridge fine art print
First Light on the Ridge
Landscapes · 8×10
$49unframed
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Merchandise

Take a piece of the collection home

Fine art prints and posters from the LostCanvas collection. Museum-quality reproductions of the inherited works — painted, sculpted, and gathered across seven decades by Corbett C. McCarthy Jr.

$29 – $49 Posters & fine art prints
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Music Lessons

Private virtual lessons with Ilona Sky — any instrument

Private virtual lessons with Ilona Sky — classical pianist, recording artist, and curator. Piano, guitar, voice, theory, composition, and improvisation. Peabody & Vanderbilt-trained.

$75 Per 1-hour session
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The Vision
"This isn't just about selling art. It's about saving it. Every piece in this collection carries someone's eye, someone's taste, someone's life. Our job is to make sure none of that disappears."
LostCanvas

Ilona wants to start a Revolution

Heidi's MySpace status, 2007 — a prophecy that became a museum.

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