American Fine Art Magazine May-June 2020/ No. 51

We have been publishing American Fine Art Magazine for eight years now and don’t plan on going anywhere at all during this difficult time in American history. In fact, not only are we still continuing to publish this magazine every single month to help all our friends, galleries, artists and collectors, but we’ve even added a few new ways to help our clients reach the best and most active collectors on the market today. First of all, we have started providing email services to our clients. With galleries and artists across the country having to close their doors for the time being, we think our email blasts will help to get the best art in front of the best collectors each day. For all our subscribers, we hope this offers…

American Fine Art Magazine is comprised of many diffierent 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…

Two of a kind Dual exhibitions at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City tell the tale of two Americas. Told through a series of iconic photographs from the 1930s, One Third of a Nation: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration portrays the challenges impoverished families faced through the photography of such noteworthy names as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Gordon Parks, among others. Its concurrent show, Lewis Hine: The WPA National Research Project Photographs, 1936-37 captures the workers and innovations that spurred the country’s economic growth during this time. Remembering Wolf Kahn Celebrated artist Wolf Kahn, whose pastel and oil landscapes were well known in America and across the globe, recently passed away at the age of 92. The American artist, born in Germany, was known for his…

An early double portrait by Gilbert Stuart has been acquired by the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The elegant oil on canvas, titled Anna Dorothea Foster and Charlotte Anna Dick, was painted in Dublin, Ireland, during 1790 to 1791 and depicts Anna Dorothea Foster, the daughter of former Speaker of the House John Foster, on the right, and her cousin Charlotte Anna Dick on the left. The painting was gifted to the museum by Charlotte Metz Hanes, wife of the late R. Philip Hanes, who says she is committed to supporting the arts in Winston-Salem and continuing her husband’s legacy. American businessman Philip Hanes was a major leader and patron of the arts for the Winston-Salem community and was part of the Board of Trustees…

DRISCOLL BABCOCK John Driscoll, President Kate Kamp, Director We have experienced real and renewed interest in the market for American 19th- and 20th-century art in the last year, particularly the last six months. Our regular clients and new collectors are in the market for top-quality artworks across genre, with period-quality and art historical significance being the prime considerations. We have sold exceptional examples by American modernist artists—Hartley, O’Keeffe, Marin, Kent and others—as well as artists like Edgar Levy, Samuel Halpert and Tony Nell who are accessible for many collectors and museums but whose names may not be as well known. We are finding that as long as the quality is very high, people are interested. We have also seen an uplift in the market for choice Hudson River School works—Bierstadt,…