OverstockArt.com launches Women in Art sweepstakes

In honor of National Women’s History Month, the popular online gallery, overstockArt.com, is hosting the “Women in Art” Twitter® sweepstakes. The sweepstakes commences on International Women’s Day on Monday, March 8, 2010.

The “Women in Art” sweepstakes, running from Monday, March 8 at 12 a.m. ET through Wednesday, March 31 at 11:50 p.m., is an online promotion that lets consumers send a Twitter® message that automatically enters them in a sweepstakes.

Three (3) people will win a 20” x 24” inch museum quality handmade oil painting reproduction featured in the Women’s Gallery, http://www.overstockart.com/women.html.

Those interested in entering the contest need only post a tweet about historical women in the arts that includes #overstockArt and the URL http://www.artcorner.com/press/twitter-promo/ to participate.

Three winners will be selected at the end of the sweepstakes period.

“We are thrilled to celebrate Women’s History Month with the launching of this interactive campaign,” stated David Sasson, CEO of overstockArt.com. “The ‘Women in Art’ sweepstakes is our way of celebrating and recognizing women in history who made a significant impact in the arts. Georgia O’Keeffe, Fridha Kahlo and Mary Cassatt are three of those trailblazing female artists who we are happy to feature on our site. Their masterpieces are some of the more popular oil paintings we sell.”

To enter the contest, consumers must tweet a message stating which historical woman artist or historical woman depicted in art is their favorite from their personal Twitter® account. Participants may choose to post an original tweet, to re-tweet the tweet listed on the sweepstakes homepage: http://www.artcorner.com/press/twitter-promo/ , or to re-tweet another entrant’s tweet – any of these options will result in an entry into the contest.

Sweepstakes winners will be selected with a random generator and will be posted on http://www.artcorner.com/press/twitter-promo/ the week following March 31st.

Every month is Women’s History Month in overstockArt.com’s Women’s gallery, http://www.overstockart.com/women.html. The gallery features a large variety of masterpieces created by famous female artists and featuring famous women. Some of the more prominent oil paintings include Frida Kahlo’s masterpiece The Two Fridas,
http://www.overstockart.com/twofridas.html;
the stunning Summertime by Mary Cassatt,
http://www.overstockart.com/summertime.html;
and Leonardo DaVinci’s magnum opus Mona Lisa,
http://www.overstockart.com/monalisa2.html.