American Fine Art Magazine May - June 2019/ No.45

There are so many things to be excited about for the upcoming summer season that we truly don’t know where to start. First off, let me say that we love the summer months regardless. We love hearing about what’s happening in all the summer art destinations up and down the coast, from Maine down to the Carolinas. Auctions, museum exhibitions, art fairs, gallery shows. Our summer agenda is already filling up so quickly! Of course, what we are most excited about is all the N.C. Wyeth events happening this summer beginning with the much-awaited retrospective at the Brandywine River Museum of Art in May. We’ve seen many of the images for the show and we have to say something like this does not come along very often. In October, the…

American Fine Art Magazine is comprised of many different sections and features, all designed to keep you informed on what’s happening in the market for historic American art. UPCOMING GALLERY SHOWS Previews of upcoming shows of historic American art at galleries across the country. UPCOMING MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS Insight from top curators about major exhibitions being staged at key American museums. EVENTS & FAIRS Previews and reports of major art fairs across the country for you to attend. AUCTIONS Previews and Reports of major works coming up for sale at the most important auction houses dealing in historic American Art. IN ADDITION: COLLECTOR’S FOCUS Find out everything the discerning collector needs to know about important and timely segments of the historic American art market. COLLECTOR HOMES In each issue you will…

JAMES BALESTRIERI James Balestrieri is director of J. N. Bartfield Galleries in New York City. Jim has written plays, verse, prose and screenplays. He has degrees from Columbia and Marquette universities, attended the American Film Institute and has an MFA in playwriting from Carnegie Mellon. He has an excellent wife and three enthusiastic children. JAY E. CANTOR Jay E. Cantor started the American Art Department for Christie’s in the late ’70s, is on the board of the Winter Antiques Show, the Art Committee for The Century Association, the board of directors of The Century Archives Foundation, and recently retired as the chairman of the Collections Committee and a member of the Steering Committee for Friends of American Arts at Yale University. He also served as the founding president of the…

APRIL 25-28 Art Market San Francisco FORT MASON CENTER San Francisco, CA www.artmarketsf.com APRIL 26-28 Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show THE NAVY YARD Philadelphia, PA www.philadelphiaantiquesandartshow.com THROUGH APRIL 27 The Painted Environment: Landscapes and Still Lifes by Harold Weston GERALD PETERS GALLERY New York, NY www.gpgallery.com APRIL 28-JULY 14 William McGregor Paxton and Elizabeth Okie Paxton: An Artistic Partnership DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS Memphis, TN www.dixon.org MAY 2-5 Art New York PIER 94 New York, NY www.artnyfair.com MAY 3-7 TEFAF New York Spring PARK AVENUE ARMORY New York, NY www.tefaf.com THROUGH MAY 5 Hans Hofmann: The California Exhibitions, 1931 HUNTER COLLEGE ART GALLERIES New York, NY www.huntercollegeartgalleries.org THROUGH MAY 5 Solitary: Alienation in Modern Life NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART Kansas City, MO www.nelson-atkins.org MAY 5-OCTOBER 27 Alexander Girard: A Designer’s…

Hardcover 2-volume set with slipcase1056 pages637 color illustrations$300.00 Best known for his interiors and landscapes featuring beautiful women in artful poses and subtly related color harmonies, Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851–1938) lived and worked at the forefront of developments in modern American art. His paintings, which navigate a course between the bravura of John Singer Sargent and the attenuated aestheticism of James McNeill Whistler, convey a sensuous beauty that remains uniquely his and that represents an exceptional phase in American painting. Featuring a comprehensive biography and engaging, narrative commentaries, this elegant, 2-volume catalogue raisonné is an essential and much-needed reference. Included here are more than 550 works of art as well as previously unpublished photographs from the artist’s own albums; each work is accompanied by a full provenance, exhibition histories, and…

Steven Stern Fine Arts Opens New Location A new gallery space for Steven Stern Fine Arts opened this March in Santa Monica, California, with an emphasis on 100 years of American art, focusing on the early California Impressionists (1910-1930), modernists (1930-1945) and Bay Area figurative painters (1955-1970). The venue itself is located in a landmark art deco building called the “Galleria DeMaio” in the heart of Santa Monica. Gallery owner Steven Stern comes from a long history of fine art dealers, including his father, George Stern, a renowned art dealer of early California Impressionism. Works can be viewed and purchased online at www.stevensternfineart.com. Rothko Chapel Restoration Rothko Chapel is conducting a year-long construction project to the chapel itself along with various campus enhancements such as new park and garden areas…