Innholdsfortegnelse for September - October 2017/ No.35 i American Fine Art Magazine

Monterey Museum of Art executive director Stuart A. Chase. The Met’s president and CEO Daniel Weiss. The Monterey Museum of Art has appointed Stuart A. Chase as its executive director. Chase previously served as president and CEO of HistoryMiami Museum…The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Daniel H. Weiss as its president and chief executive officer. The museum board of trustees voted unanimously for Weiss to assume the title, and also announced that the museum will lead a search to appoint a director of the museum…Allison Rutledge- Parisi has been named the next vice president and chief human resources officer at the Met. Rutledge-Parisi comes to the museum from Macmillan Learning, where she served as the chief administration officer. Other new senior staff appointments at the museum…

The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced the acquisition of the 1932 Edward Hopper painting City Roofs, gifted by an anonymous donor. The painting depicts the rooftop of Hopper’s Greenwich Village studio where he lived and worked from 1913 until his death in 1967. The same donor also gifted Childe Hassam’s Allied Flags, April 1917. “We are thrilled that these two wonderful paintings, City Roofs and Allied Flags, April 1917, have been promised to the Whitney,” says Adam D. Weinberg, director of the Whitney. “Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, these paintings, long held in private hands, will be available in coming years to new generations who visit the Whitney to see works from our iconic collection and discover the history of American art. These are among…

John Sloan was too restless for realism. Early on, he emphasized working to achieve solidity in his work; as he matured, he wrote in his 1939 treatise Gist of Art, that his goal was what he called “realization,” or “form as the mind knows it.” David W. Scott, in his catalog essay for the 1971 retrospective of Sloan’s career at the National Gallery of Art, avers that Sloan sought “tactile realization and suppression of perspective,” that Sloan pursued an art that went “beyond the illusionistic.” In essence, Sloan wanted to excavate reality in order to unearth a deeper reality, reality as he perceived it, through the formation of what Andre Malraux defined as “style,” an artist’s personal, signature vision. An American Journey: The Art of John Sloan, opening at the…

William Carlos Williams wrote, “I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn’t know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn’t so I wrote my poetry.” Sandy and Bram Dijkstra conformed to a code—up to a point. Then, they went in unanticipated directions. With a Ph.D. in French literature, Sandy taught at the university level. While in New York at a professional meeting, she found herself pitching her dissertation to publishers, who asked for a “proposal” instead. So, she told them about her friend Lillian Faderman’s Surpassing the Love of Men, a book of feminist nonfiction, and they urged her to become an agent. Having “sold” Faderman’s book, in 1979, she opened the…

October 7-November 4 Vose Galleries 238 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 t: (617) 536-6176 www.vosegalleries.com For centuries artists have been lured by ever-changing waterways in all forms—ocean, sea, river, lake, bay. They capture on their canvases the peace and tranquility of these vast expanses, as well as the rushing and movement of water as it ebbs, flows, meanders and splashes. Also capturing their attention is how light moves through and around water, creating unique patterns and effects. October 7 through November 4, Vose Galleries in Boston will present the exhibition Reflections and Refractions: Water as Muse spotlighting 30 paintings that highlight how artists have interpreted water from century to century. “There’s no question why artists depicted the subject matter so frequently—it is a substance that is both tranquil and malleable…

Through September 10 Georgia Museum of Art University of Georgia 90 Carlton Street Athens, GA 30602 t: (706) 542-4662 www.georgiamuseum.org At 64 years old, after traveling all around the world and painting works that would go on to be considered American masterpieces—if not at the time, then certainly today— Martin Johnson Heade did something that sounds like a cliché today, but was fairly novel in 1883. He retired to Florida. But that wasn’t the end of the story. He also marries for the first time as he settles down in St. Augustine, a beach city on Florida’s northeast coast, and he continues, even in retirement, to add to his marvelous and diverse oeuvre of American paintings. The Florida works, many of them floral still lifes on carefully arranged velvet stages,…

Through January 28 Morven Museum & Garden 55 Stockton Street Princeton, NJ 08540 t: (609) 924-8144 www.morven.org In the early 20th century, the city of Newark, New Jersey, became recognized as a hub for artists as they were drawn to the area for its urbanization and for its championing of the arts from local figures. Through January 28, the Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton, New Jersey, presents the exhibition Newark and the Culture of Art: 1900-1960 that “celebrates the culture of creativity the flourished alongside John Cotton Dana, the visionary figure in the organization of the Newark Library and Newark Museum.” The show—co-curated by Elizabeth G. Allan, the Morven’s curator of collections and exhibitions, and Roy Pedersen—is organized loosely in chronological order. It begins with a museum gallery dedicated…

A Designer’s Universe The Cranbrook Art Museum presents a career retrospective of Alexander Girard in A Designer’s Universe. Girard worked in architecture, interior design, textiles and graphics to create stunning environments, and the exhibition includes furniture, sculpture and architecture alongside never-beforeseen drawings. The show remains on view in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, through October 8. Wyeth Forever The U.S. Postal Service announced 12 new Forever Stamps featuring the artwork of Andrew Wyeth, in honor of the artist’s 100th birthday. The stamps were dedicated at the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Wyeth’s hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Record Attendance During the 2017 fiscal year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art welcomed 7 million visitors, the highest attendance in the Met’s recorded history. The increased attendance is attributed to an influx of visitors…

Through October 7 Gerald Peters Gallery 1005 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505) 954-5700 www.gpgallery.com Inspired by the advice of mentor and fellow artist Robert Henri, John Sloan left New York City and the rest of the artists of the Ashcan School and traveled to Santa Fe in the summer of 1919. The New Mexican city had such an influence on Sloan that he would return every summer (except one) for the next 31 years, first to a boardinghouse and outdoor studio in the courtyard of the New Mexico Museum of Art, then to a little Adobe he cherished on 314 Garcia Street and finally to a home he constructed on land sold to him by fellow artist Joseph Bakos about six miles out of town that he…

September 12-October 31 Hawthorne Fine Art 12 E. 86th Street, Suite 527, New York, NY 10028 t: (212) 731-0550, www.hawthornefineart.com As the summer months begin to wane, there is change all around as the natural world undergoes a transformation. The air turns crisp and the foliage blooms with bright autumnal colors. Winter also looms in the atmosphere, as there is a sense of bounty and harvest in preparation for the colder months ahead. The upcoming exhibition, Autumn Splendor: Fall Landscapes in American Art, at Hawthorne Fine Art in New York City, will explore the role this dynamic season has played in American artwork. “Nineteenth-century painters were frequently drawn to scenes of autumnal vistas for their ruddy, earthy colors, the movement of the leaves as they fall from the trees and…

October 24, 6 p.m. John Moran Auctioneers 145 E. Walnut Avenue Monrovia, CA 91016 t: (626) 793-1833 www.johnmoran.com Approximately 200 lots will cross the block during John Moran Auctioneers’ October 24 sale of California and American fine art. The auction, as explained by Morgana Blackwelder, the director of fine art at John Moran, is wide reaching in not only the time frame and genre of artwork offered but in the price point. “It’s an all-inclusive atmosphere and vibe. We’re trying to promote buying of quality works at all price points and for all buyers,” she elaborates. “Making good art accessible to buyers.” One of the most notable paintings in the sale is Maynard Dixon’s Inyo Mountains – Evening, which is estimated to achieve $20,000 to $30,000. Dixon had painted several…

BOSTON, MA SKINNER, INC. MAY 19 American & European Works of Art $1.8 million On May 19, Skinner hosted its springtime sale of American and European artwork that included more than 500 lots of paintings, sculpture, photographs and works on paper from a range of periods and styles. Leading the sale was a small mobile by Alexander Calder titled Standing Mobile (est. $100/150,000) that more than doubled its low estimate when it sold for $267,000. Robin S. R. Starr, director of the American and European art at Skinner, says the less than 6-inch-wide piece was “full of spunk and whimsy; the red curl of a tail made it sing.” Other works that stood out were Charles E. Prendergast’s Untitled (Vase with Flowers and Birds), which sold just under presale estimate at…

While the eyes of American art devotees have been trained on Bentonville, Arkansas, and Crystal Bridges, the newest museum dedicated to American art, a lot has been going on in the northeast corner of the country. And for enthusiasts of American modernism this has been something of a banner year. Maine’s Portland Museum of Art, following up on last summer’s exhibition O’Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York has, this year, organized an exhibition of a quartet of male artists working in a modernist idiom: A New American Sculpture 1914-1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach. It is important to note that the artists in both exhibitions knew each other and belonged variously to the small cluster of avant-garde modernists that circled around Alfred Stieglitz, the Society of Independent…

When asked to name a woman artist, the name on the tip of many people’s tongue is probably “Georgia O’Keeffe.” In American Women Artists, 1860-1960, Avery Galleries challenges viewers to look beyond household names. The exhibition is the result of a long-held desire by the gallery to do a women’s show, and widely known women artists like Mary Cassatt and Jane Peterson are displayed among artists who might not have as much name recognition, such as Claude Raguet Hirst, Margarett Sargent and Virginia Berresford. The exhibition is arranged chronologically, emphasizing the progress women artists made over a century of creative work. After the Civil War, women in America began entering art schools in greater numbers, and by 1880, their enrollment equaled that of male students at many institutions. During the…

Through September 22 Debra Force Fine Art, Inc. 13 E. 69th Street, Suite 4F New York, NY 10021 t: (212) 734-3636 www.debraforce.com Impressionism made, to coin a phrase, a profound impression on American artists in the 1880s, when they traveled to Europe to study and found their eyes and interest drawn away from the academies toward what was then the new art of the boulevards and seaside areas. And while American artists did not adopt all of the precise theoretical positions of their European antecedents, especially regarding color theory, what they came away with was a new appreciation for light, and for broad, rhythmic brushstrokes that gave their canvases a plein air, painted on the spot quality, even when those canvases were meticulously rendered in the studio. Colorful Impressions, a…

October 19-22 Boston International Fine Art Show Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts 539 Tremont Street Boston, MA 02116 t: (617) 363-0405 www.bostonartfairs.com In Boston’s South End neighborhood, the Cyclorama at Boston Center for the Arts was built in 1884 to house a circular mural of the Battle of Gettysburg. In October, for the 21st year running, it will house the Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS), an annual show and sale of historic, modern and contemporary fine art. “Since we’re really the only fine art show of our kind in New England, we have a really strong regional draw,” says event co-founder Tony Fusco. “Boston had a very strong tradition of figurative expressionism even while New York was embracing abstract art. Realism and figurative art do best in the…

September 15-16, noon Jackson Hole Art Auction Center for the Arts 265 S. Cache Street Jackson, WY 83001 t: (866) 549-9278 www.jacksonholeartauction.com Based on its gorgeous location, practically in the shadow of the Grand Tetons, the Jackson Hole Art Auction is widely known for its Western and wildlife offerings. This year is no different with strong works from Charles M. Russell, Carl Rungius and William Gollings, as well as many others. But this year will also have several key impressionist works to complement its rich Western offerings on September 15 and 16. “We’ve not sold a great deal of American impressionist works before, a handful here and there, but our collectors have such diverse collections that this year we wanted to bring some really strong works from some fresh categories,”…

Fern Isabel Coppedge is widely considered to be the most significant female artist of the Pennsylvania Impressionist movement. Collectors are drawn to her bright color palette and familiar views of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. During Freeman’s American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionist sale on June 4, five paintings by Coppedge found buyers, all ending up in the top 10 lots of the sale and four coming in above presale estimate. “We started doing a focus on various artists, and we singled out Coppedge [for this auction],” says Alasdair Nichol, vice chairman and head of the fine art department at Freeman’s. “[O]verall, I was pretty happy with the way things were.” Leading the group of Coppedge’s was Pigeon Cove, a work that Nichol described as fresh to the market, with an impressive sale…