Innholdsfortegnelse for September/October 2022 i Fine Art Connoisseur

Whether it’s your intention or not, you are making a financial investment every time you buy a work of art for your collection. Even if you have acquired art for enjoyment only, it’s likely that what you own will grow in value over time. As you continue collecting, it’s wise to consider the longer term. Over the years, I’ve witnessed too many mistakes resulting in unrecoverable losses, taxassessments on heirs that could have been avoided, and massive collections with no remaining “street value.” One collector I know invested $1 million in paintings by a “hot” artist who is now forgotten, which is a shame because my acquaintance could really use that money. (Laurence C. Zale and I have co-authored a report, “The 7 Most Serious Financial Mistakes Made by Art…

American Impressionist Society SEPTEMBER 15 - OCTOBER 22, 2022 OPENING WEEK! Events include painting at multiple locations, critiques, painting demos, presentations and receptions with no fee for all current AIS members! September 13-14 Workshop September 12-17 AIS All-Member Paintout Thursday, September 15 Opening Reception and Awards Exhibition features 175 artworks in oil, watercolor, pastel, gouache and acrylic. All work available for purchase and published in an exhibition catalog. Saturday, September 17 Wet Wall Exhibition and Sale View and purchase artwork created on site in Boulder during the Paintout! American Impressionist Society was founded in 1998 to promote the appreciation of Impressionism through exhibitions, workshops and events. Four exhibitions are offered each year-two in galleries and two online. Memberships are open to American Impressionist artists who are United States residents and…

You can never tell how a global catastrophe such as the COVID-19 pandemic might impact a specific person. Fortunately, the Wyomingbased sculptor Sandy Scott (b. 1943) has done just fine. “Some artists fell into creative funks,” she says, “but I became more energized and actually experienced one of my most productive periods ever.” Delighting Scott's collectors and admirers nationwide this autumn is the arrival of more than 30 new pieces, which she has nicknamed the COVID Collection because “most would not exist had COVID not made possible the enormous amount of studio time I’ve enjoyed.” The artist is quick to note, however, that guiding each work through her trusted foundry (Eagle Bronze) has been challenging because its project backlog exploded during 2020, and because the casting and finishing process is…

If you’ve never had an opportunity to view the famous murals, drawings, and paintings created by the Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) during his prolific, sevendecade-long career, you’ll surely find some in almost any major U.S. art museum. If, however, you also want to see where Benton conceived and created some of those masterpieces — as well as the books he read, the instruments he played, the environment where he communed with his family and fellow artists, plus many lesser-known drawings, studies, and sculptures — consider visiting the Thomas Hart Benton Home & Studio State Historic Site. Located in the upper-class Roanoke neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, the house and stable-turned-studio were purchased in 1939 by Benton and his wife, Rita, for $6,000 cash. Originally built in 1903 by…

There’s something fresh in the air in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and it isn’t just the approach of cooler autumn weather. Rather, the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts has opened a new chapter in its teaching of time-tested skills that will inspire and equip the next generation of artists — an exciting prospect for Fine Art Connoisseur and our entire field. I personally am gratified by this development because I have been visiting and observing the Lyme Academy regularlv since 2004. Today its Core Program serves students aged 18 and older; admission is highly competitive because each year’s cohort is small and the fulltime curriculum is rigorous, requiring a commitment of two years, with an option to stay on one or two more. Year 1 concentrates on drawing and Year 2…

The sun lowers on the spire of the San Miguel Mission as afternoon light illuminates the distant clouds. Painted from a plein air sketch, the fleeting light is captured in thick, textural strokes of vibrating color. BRAD TEARE discovered his love for thick paint at a Van Gogh exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Surprised by the impact the paintings had in person, Teare began exploring texture by painting with palette knives in rich, multi-hued strokes. PALACE AVE. GALLERY • 123 WEST PALACE AVENUE SANTA FE, NM 87501 • 505.986.0440 INFO@MANITOUGALLERIES.COM WESTERN ART SHOWCASE “The American West” means many different things to many different people, and that fact should make us all glad. At Fine Art Connoisseur we have long been keenly aware of how art of…

As fellow residents of Earth, wild animals have always fascinated humans, especially the artists among us. Thus many creatures appear in prehistoric cave paintings, and today the desire to depict them endures, stronger than ever. The artworks illustrated here confirm this ongoing enthusiasm, and it’s easy to learn more thanks to a host of activities happening across North America. For example, in Charleston next February, the annual Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (sewe.com) will again delight animal lovers with exhibitions, demos, and other activities highlighting the importance of conservation. Touring the country are the annual Art and the Animal exhibitions organized by the Society of Animal Artists (societyofanimalartists.com), and then there is the annual festival hosted by Artists for Conservation (artistsforconservation.org), which features an exhibition by leading international artists, screenings, demos, and…

A WOMAN ARTIST GETS HER DUE SUZE ROBERTSON: DEDICATED, INDIVIDUALISTIC, MODERN Museum Panorama Mesdag The Hague, Netherlands panorama-mesdag.nl/en September 23, 2022—March 5, 2023 Around the world, scholars are busy recovering or revisiting the often forgotten stories of women artists. A fine example of such an exhibition is one this season at the Museum Panorama Mesdag in The Hague, devoted to the Dutch artist Suze Robertson (1855-1922) and timed to mark the centenary of her death. On view soon will be more than 80 paintings and drawings, many borrowed from private collections, constituting the first investigation of her art in over 40 years and certainly the largest such show ever mounted. Robertson was born and died in The Hague, and her most significant period of study occurred in the city’s Royal…

Santa Fe victorycontemporary.com September 23-October 7 Born in Moscow and now based in Colorado, the husband-and-wife team of Olga and Aleksey Ivanov are set to open a show of new paintings titled The Southwest Sun at Victory Contemporary. Best known for their illustrations of children’s books, the couple are masters of egg tempera, the challenging and ancient medium that offers rich color and sharp detail. Inspired by the American West, the Ivanovs’ latest works walk the line between daydream and reality, infused with a touch of whimsy, and even trickery now and then. Milwaukee lilypadgallery.com September 2-October 9 In 1851, three years after it attained statehood, Wisconsin adopted “Forward” as its motto to reflect its people’s determination to move ahead on the national stage. Almost six years ago, Lily Pad…

John Searles is always looking for a story he can tell, often on the page to his many readers. One of America's bestselling novelists, he has published four books to date, including most recent, Her Last Affair. Indicative of his ability to find or invent stories, Searles says of this drawing by the artist Justin Liam O’Brien, “When I look at this work showing three figures, I see the same person — as a young man, a middle-aged man, and an older man. When I mentioned this to my husband, Thomas, he insisted that the drawing shows three people. But I still see the same person picking reeds at the shoreline at different stages of his life.” Searles recalls coming upon O’Brien’s art at the Monya Rowe Gallery in New…

To use a baseball analogy, the paintings of John Koch (pronounced “Coke,” 1909-1978) have come down to us with two strikes against them. First, Koch was a successful portraitist, catering to a wealthy clientele whose commissions helped support his career in fine art. (The publishers Henry Luce and Malcolm Forbes, as well as the composer Richard Rodgers, were among his many sitters.) That shouldn’t be a strike against anyone, but, like it or not, many observers have considered commissioned portraiture an obstacle to “serious” artmaking for more than a century. Why? Because it usually requires artists to please the sitter, while “fine art” obliges them to please only themselves. Second, we have come to believe that great artists challenge accepted norms, (“Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,” as one…

IMPRESSIONISM IN DEPTH AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST SOCIETY 23RD ANNUAL NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION Mary Williams Fine Arts Boulder, Colorado americanimpressionistsociety.org September 16—October 22 The American Impressionist Society (AIS) will soon open its 23rd Annual National Juried Exhibition at Mary Williams Fine Arts. On view will be 155 paintings, as well as 25 more created by AIS “Masters,” officers, and founders. Most have been created in oils, pastels, watercolors, acrylics, or gouaches. A fivemember jury reviewed more than 1,210 entries, and a catalogue illustrating all of the works they selected will be available for purchase. At the opening event, AIS Master Huihan Liu will serve as awards judge, distributing more than $75,000 in cash and merchandise, including $12,000 for Best of Show. On September 16, Liu and AIS Signature Member Aaron Schuerr will demonstrate…

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