Innholdsfortegnelse for May-June 2022/ No. 63 i American Fine Art Magazine

Emil Bisttram (1895 - 1976) Doorway to the Ethereal Worlds, 1959 oil on canvas, 32 x 36 in. (81.28 x 91.44 cm.) Estimate: $30,000-$50,000 Upcoming Calendar Art of the West: May 27–28 Signature Summer Sale: June 24–25 New Mexico Now: Spanish Colonial to Spanish Market: July 22–23 American Indian & Tribal: Classic to Contemporary: August 12–13 Contemporary Art, Design + Photography: September 23–24 Signature Annual Live Sale: November 4–5 Winter Holiday: December 9–10 SANTA FE ART AUCTION 932 Railfan Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505 info@santafeartauction.com 505.954.5858 santafeartauction.com @santafeartauction Fine Consignments Always Welcome…

Senior Vice President/Head of American Art Sotheby’s We’re seeing strength in the market and high demand for underrepresented artists, specifically female artists and artists of color. Many institutions and long-established private collections are actively competing for an extremely limited supply of works. This applies to familiar artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe and Romare Bearden as well as newer names like Gertrude Abercrombie and Ernie Barnes. Newer, younger buyers are steadily entering the market each sale cycle for works and artists that have a more accessible point of entry for their markets. We consistently see examples across the category, and we’re actively adjusting our sale model to feature a wider range of artists whose works can be acquired by younger and newer collectors looking to build a collection. While the market…

Associate Curator BRANDYWINE RIVER MUSEUM OF ART Chadds Ford, PA • www.brandywine.org What event (gallery show, museum exhibit, etc.) in the next few months are you looking forward to, and why? I am very much looking forward to our upcoming exhibition Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America (May 28 to September 5). Gatecrashers examines how, after World War I, artists without formal training “crashed the gates” of major museums in the United States, diversifying the art world across lines of race, ethnicity, class, ability and gender. Organized by the High Museum of Art and featuring more than 60 works, the exhibition investigates how self-taught artists including Horace Pippin, Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma Moses” and John Kane overcame class, race and gender-based obstacles to enter the inner sanctums…

Things Heard & Seen, the new Netflix film based on Elizabeth Brundage’s novel All Things Cease to Appear is a fairly standard haunted house movie, complete with unhappy marriages, unquiet apparitions, a piano that plays itself and a seance that goes haywire. I haven’t read the novel, so I can’t speak to its success at resuscitating the genre, though the old adage, “The book was better,” may well apply here. What was of particular interest to me—and, I hope, to you—is the fact that the character of the husband is an art history professor specializing in the work of George Inness (1825-1894), an American painter who is often—and the film is no exception—classified as aHudson River School painter. And yet, a closer look at Inness and his painting, while conceding his…

May 14-17 The American Art Fair Bohemian National Hall 321 E. 73rd Street New York, NY 10021 t: (917) 842-4333 www.theamericanartfair.com They say distance makes the heart grow fonder, which is something that art collectors have certainly felt as many of their favorite shows went virtual or were canceled outright during the pandemic. So now that events are returning, there is an outpouring of relief and gratitude for the shows that can once again welcome collectors. One of those key shows returning is The American Art Fair, opening May 14 in New York City. It will serve as the anchor point for a suite of complementary events taking place all around the city during a spring period referred to as American Art Week. Other events include gallery shows, museum exhibitions…

May 27-June 25 Somerville Manning Gallery Breck’s Mill, 2nd Floor 101 Stone Block Row Greenville, Delaware 19807 t: (302) 652-0271 www.somervillemanning.com In its exhibition American Masters: Art of the 20th -21st Centuries, Somerville Manning Gallery in Greenville, Delaware, showcases parallel movements in realism and modernism from Hans Hoffman to JamieWyeth. The exhibition opens May 27 and continues through June 25. The gallery notes, “The American Masters exhibition juxtaposes the artworks of N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth with the artists of their respective eras, including current. This exhibition showcases some of the most celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.” N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945) and Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) were contemporaries. Famed for his illustrations for a series of books beginning with Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island in 1911, Wyeth is represented by easel…

June 17-September 11 High Museum of Art 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30309 t: (404) 733-4400 www.high.org BobThompson (1937-1966) spent the summer of 1958 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. There he discovered the paintings of the German figurative expressionist painter Jan Müller (1922-1958). Müller had died tragically young several months before butThompson was able to meet his widow, Dody Müller, who advised him, “Don’t ever look for your solutions from contemporaries—look at Old Masters.” Thompson had an affinity for Müller’s work which, the poet John Ashbery wrote, “brings a medieval sensibility to neo-Expressionist paintings.” Thompson went on to study Old Masters such asTintoretto, Goya and Poussin, and painted contemporary allegories with the vivid color palette of Gauguin. In New York, he frequented jazz clubs and riffed on themes in his painting…

Through May 18 D. Wigmore Fine Art 152 W. 57th Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10019 t: (212) 581-1657 www.dwigmore.com This exhibition of 30 paintings by Sally Michel, created between 1950 and 1985, aims to show how her art bridged the gap between representational and abstract painting, in a style that successfully refreshed and moved realism forward. Michel’s story cannot be told without bringing in her life partner, Milton Avery. Avery (1885-1965) and Michel (1902-2003) met painting in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1924. They admired each other’s dedication to sketching all day. Married in 1926, Michel and Avery worked in NewYork as a unit until Avery’s death in 1965. To provide support, Michel worked as a freelance illustrator, an occupation she could pursue at home. This allowed her to remain…

June 11-September 3 UC Irvine Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art 18881 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 100 Irvine, CA 92612 (interim location) t: (949) 476-0003 www.imca.uci.edu An upcoming exhibition at UC Irvine Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA) explores the work of more than 20 artists who settled in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Laguna Beach and San Diego in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Variations of Place: Southern California Impressionism in the Early 20th Century is a deep dive into the regional art movement that made waves on theWest Coast in the 1900s. Visitors will be able to dive intoseascapes, landscapes and figurative paintings from such prolific artists as Edgar Payne, Granville Redmond, Guy Rose, Gardner Symons, William Wendt…

ALEXANDRIA, VA HINDMAN MAY 10, 10 A.M. American & European Art Headlining Hindman’s American & European Art auction are phenomenal works from the Collection of Richard D. Simmons, who was president and chief operating officer of the Washington Post from 1981 to 1991. Among the top offerings in the Simmons Collection is William Merritt Chase’s 1902 oil on canvas A Road to the Sea (Shinnecock Bay), estimated to fetch between $150,000 and $250,000. The sale will feature other coveted collections, including property from the Collection of Brian Gerard Dekker and from the Estate of Celestia B. Smithgall, co-founder of the Gainesville Times in Georgia. In total, more than 100 paintings, works on paper and sculptures—by artists such as Jasper Francis Cropsey, Robert Henri, Leroy Neiman, William Edouard Scott and Hale…

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 find a behind-the-scenes look into a coveted collector home. MARKET REPORTS Find out what’s happening in galleries from NewYork to California. EX LIBRIS Read about the best books…

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May 26, 2 p.m. Bonhams 580 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022 t: (212) 644-9001 www.bonhams.com This May, Bonhams will hold the spring edition of its American Art auction, and as always, the sale will feature some of the very best in historic American fine art. A preview will take place beginning May 21 through the morning of May 26. “This sale is a wonderful representation of the category, with many of the schools which are the pillars of the category including Hudson River, modernist, Ashcan and impressionist being included,” says Morgan Martin, American art specialist at Bonhams. Among the highlights in the sale, according to Martin, is a James Abbott McNeill Whistler piece titled Stormy Sea. “The initial request for an estimate came in through a cold call to…

May 29-September 25 The Westmoreland Museum of American Art 221 N. Main Street Greensburg, PA 15601 t: (724) 837-1500 www.thewestmoreland.org In connecting the work of early-to mid-20th century American realist painters with contemporary artists similarly embracing a realist approach, Alone Together: Encounters in American Realism, a forthcoming exhibition at the Westmoreland Museum of Art, doesn’t so much marvel at the historic painters’ foresight or the contemporary painters’ innovation—although it does both—as it places them side by side to reveal how little the human condition changes. Isolation and victimization are observed in equal measure with recreation and amusement. Then and now. Guest curator Alex J. Taylor doesn’t need to present the work of living artists depicting brutalized protestors, police violence, the beleaguered working class, the forgotten elderly; the paintings he’s selected…

May 24-August 28 Taos Art Museum at Fechin House 227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte Taos, NM 87571 t: (575) 758-2690 www.taosartmuseum.org Doel Reed (1894-1985) was chair of the department of art at Oklahoma State University for nearly 30 years. A painter and a print maker, he retired toTalpa, outside Taos, New Mexico, in 1959 where he concentrated on perfecting the aquatint printing process. His home and studio in Talpa now houses the Doel Reed Center of OSU. He wrote, “I have been in the Southwest for so many years that I feel definitely part of the region. The feeling of endless space of the great plains, the high mountains, the unlimited sky and clouds have been a great source of inspiration for the development of my own style which might…

June 5, 2 p.m. Freeman’s Auction 2400 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 t: (215) 563-9275 www.freemansauction.com Following the success of Freeman’s American Artsale in December 2021, which broke multiple records, the auction house is prepared to roll out the highly anticipated American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists sale. Approximately 100 lots will be featured, including 19th-century Hudson River School works, illustration art, impressionism and the New Hope School, a category that is well known at Freeman’s. Raphaël Chatroux, Freeman’s fine art specialist, notes that “many works from the 1930s will hit the block, thus giving a new modern, sometimes Art Deco and Aesthetic Movement look to the event.” Chatroux continues: “The market is healthy at the moment, as showed by the impressive results garnered by our last sale. We find more…