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CORCORAN PRESENTS CHRIS MARTIN: PAINTING BIG June 18–October 23, 2011
Released: April 7, 2011This summer, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design will present Chris Martin: Painting Big, Martin’s first one-artist museum exhibition and the first exhibition of his work in Washington, D.C. Spanning three spaces in the Gallery, the exhibition includes large-scale paintings commissioned for the Corcoran’s Atrium, a focused selection of work from the past nine years, and in the Corcoran’s Rotunda, a dense assemblage of small paintings from the last 25 years. Chris Martin: Painting Big is the second exhibition in the Gallery’s NOW at the Corcoran series, which is dedicated...
The Art and Antique Dealers League of America (AADLA) Celebrates Art and Antiques Week NYC, April 25 - May 1 with their Inaugural Spring Show NYC as the Centerpiece at the Park Avenue Armory
Released: April 12, 2011As one of the world's largest and most robust art markets, New York City attracts collectors and art enthusiasts from around the world. Capitalizing on the city's international appeal, The Art and Antique Dealers League of America (AADLA) has partnered with hundreds of galleries and major museums to create Art and Antiques Week NYC, which starts on Monday April 25th through Sunday May 1, 2011. At the heart of Art and Antiques Week is the inaugural Spring Show NYC, sponsored by 1stdibs.com, which opens with a benefit preview for the ASPCA on April 27, at the Park Avenue Armory. "The idea be...
ART & DESIGN IN THE 21ST CENTURY CONVERGE AT 14TH SOFA NEW YORK, APRIL 14-17, AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Released: April 11, 2011A growing hallmark of the artworks offered by 57 dealers from 12 countries at SOFA NEW YORK 2011 is their synthesis of art and design, the past and present, high concept and virtuosity of materials. Design, technology and globalization bring people and environments of many cultures together. Personifying this trend are the 6 ft tall porcelain vessels by Sin-ying Ho, a Hong Kong-Chinese ceramist living in North America, which will greet SOFA NEW YORK visitors at the entrance to the fair. Represented by Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, Ho spent many months in the Chinese porcelain center of Jing...
THE NOT SO STILL CALIFORNIA LIFE - RARE TO MARKET JOSEPH KLEITSCH WORK BRINGS $506,000 ON APRIL 6TH AT BONHAMS & BUTTERFIELDS
Released: April 11, 2011International auctioneers, Bonhams & Butterfields, is pleased to announce a stellar result for its first California and Western Paintings and Sculpture auction of 2011. Held on April 6th, the sale offered a wide array of important early 19th century landscapes, Western scenes, Impressionist and Modernist compositions, including a rare-to-market still life by Joseph Kleitsch titled Highlights. Probably one of the most freely painted of Kleitsch's works, Highlights abounds with vigorous gestural brushstrokes, rapidly applied to sculpt both the three-dimensional forms and the decorati...
The Cooley Gallery Announces a New Exhibition: All Flowers
Released: April 8, 2011The Cooley Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition and sale of historic and contemporary floral paintings in All Flowers. The exhibition opens with the forsythia on April 23rd and runs through May 28th, 2011. Peonies, tulips, lilies, laurel, daisies, poppies, petunias, coreopsis, hibiscus, roses, sunflowers and water lilies will be blooming on the walls of the gallery at 25 Lyme Street in Old Lyme. "One of the first paintings I bought many years ago was a sumptuous still-life of roses -- it was sexy, rich and beautiful," owner Jeff Cooley reminisces. "For all these years since, I h...
Go-Go Gauguin! A Sumptuous Floral Still Life and a Charcoal Sketch Now at Rau Antiques
Released: April 7, 2011Gauguin lovers usually recall the lush landscapes and voluptuous women that Gauguin painted using his trademark bold brushstrokes and muted colors during his self-imposed exile in Tahiti that began in 1891. Others may or may not know that Gauguin was involved in a quarrel with van Gogh in Arles, France, with whom he was staying in 1888 for nine weeks, when van Gogh's ear got sliced off. Regardless of Gauguin's temper, and whether or not he chopped off van Gogh's ear, clearly Gauguin's artistic talent shaped him into the Post-Impressionist master that serious art collectors vie for at h...
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MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, REACHES AGREEMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF FOUR 17TH-CENTURY TAPESTRIES MADE FOR THE BARBERINI PALACE IN ROME
Released: April 7, 2011Provenance research conducted by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has resulted in new discoveries about the history of ownership of four 17th-century tapestries in the MFA’s collection. The Museum’s research revealed that the tapestries—given to the MFA in the 1950s by Eugene Garbáty, a German Jewish art collector and refugee—had been included in a forced sale in 1935 of the stock of the art dealership Margraf and Co. in Berlin, a firm run by Jakob and Rosa Oppenheimer. The MFA contacted the Oppenheimer heirs in 2010 to inform them of the discovery and to begin settlement discussi...
Exhibition of New York centenarian artist Will Barnet on view at Amon Carter Museum of American Art beginning in June
Released: April 7, 2011To mark the 100th birthday of pioneering printmaker, painter and educator Will Barnet (b. 1911), the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents Will Barnet: Relationships, Intimate and Abstract, 1935–1965, on view from June 18–December 31, 2011. This exhibition of nearly 50 prints, drawings and paintings explores the momentous evolution of Barnet’s art from realism to abstraction during the middle decades of the 20th century, the most pivotal period of his career. Admission is free. Will Barnet’s eight-decade career began in 1931, when he earned a scholarship to the prestigious Art Stu...
Robert S. Duncanson: The Spiritual Striving of the Freedman's Son Exhibition Highlights Work of Ohio Landscape Artist
Released: April 6, 2011On May 1, 2011, the Thomas Cole National Historic Site opens Robert S. Duncanson: The Spiritual Striving of the Freedman's Son, the first exhibition featuring the work of the nineteenth-century African-American landscape painter Robert S. Duncanson in many years, and, the first exhibition of his work to appear on the east coast, even in his lifetime. The exhibition will bring the work of this Ohio artist to the home of Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School and major influence on Duncanson. This exhibition is the 8th annual presentation of 19th Century landscape paintings at ...
American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting on view at Reading Public Museum
Released: April 6, 2011An exhibition of 116 Hudson River School paintings drawn from a remarkable and comprehensive private collection will be on view at the Reading Public Museum through June 5, 2011. American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting features outstanding works by key figures in the movement including Thomas Cole, Frederic E. Church, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Asher B. Durand, John Frederick Kensett, John William Casilear, Benjamin Champney, William Trost Richards and Alfred Bricher, as well as women members Laura Woodward and Edith Wilkinson Cook, and other accomplished but lesser k...
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