susantellergallery Blog Archive June 2011- ArtfixDaily.com

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Susan Teller

We feature American paintings and works on paper from the 1920s to the 1950s with special interest in the Urban/Industrial Scene, Modernism, Atelier 17, Surrealism, and African American work.

Blog entries from susantellergallery for June 2011

DJuna Barnes in Midnight in Paris

Posted: June 12, 2011 07:38 Last Updated: | Susan Teller

Peggy Bacon would have been so pleased to see her pal Djuna Barnes featured in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. Now showing, the film opened May 11 in Cannes, of course. Barnes (1892-1982), the American modernist writer, was part of Bacon's Greenwich Village crowd, and figures in Bacon's Off with Their Heads, published 1934. Link to Peggy Bacon show images: http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_exh.pl?exh=exh_apr11 Link to site: WWW.SUSANTELLERGALLERY.COM

John Storrs, Figure Under a Tree, 1918-20

John Storrs: Machine Age Modernist

Posted: June 22, 2011 09:14 Last Updated: | Susan Teller

John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist, is on view at the Grey Art Gallery of New York University, April 12 through July 9, 2011. There is a wonderful range of sculpture -- from cubist but still clearly figurative works, to stripped down, architectural-motif columns. There are several drawings, including some preparatory to commissions. As we were reminded in March, no visit to Chicago is complete without seeing Storr's Ceres, 1929, at the top of the Chicago Board of Trade Building. Reclining Figure Under a Tree, 1918-20 Wood engraving, 6 x 6 inches Unpublished illustration for Walt Whitman’...