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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.

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Julio Girona, Farmer and Soldier, about 1940, lithograph, 9 x 12 inches.

Today, on the last day, we made it to the League’s On the Front Lines: Military Veterans at The Art Students League of New York. Besides the exhibition itself, curator Jillian Russo included a wall of names of 3751 men and 174 women who served in the military and who either taught or studied at the League. Julio Girona and Edward Laning are among them. Clearly Laning was on the Conte Biancamano in 1949. The SS Conte Biancamano was an Italian ocean liner built in Scotland in 1925. In 1941 she was seized by the US Navy and used for military transport under the name USS Hermitage....

New Mexico, July 13 and 14

Posted: July 25, 2015 12:43

Sunday, July 12, was the last day of Art Santa Fe 2015. We loved being there and had many wonderful visitors. We were especially pleased that works by Peggy Bacon, William Baziotes, Isabel Bishop, Howard Daum, Peter Grippe, Hugh Mesibov, and Angelo Pinto, (east-coasters all) were noticed and admired!   Monday, July 13, we drove to the Puye Cliff Dwellings, a National Historic Landmark and ancestral home of todays’ Santa Clara Pueblo Native Americans. The site is run by the Pueblo; the guides are members as well. The mesa is volcanic tuff, a light, easily cut material that was...

Peggy Bacon, Seated Woman Smoking, 1930, ink drawing

ART SANTA FE, 2015

Posted: July 23, 2015 20:39

  Sunday, July 12, was the last day of Art Santa Fe 2015. We loved being there and had many wonderful visitors. We were especially pleased that works by William Baziotes, Isabel Bishop, Howard Daum, Peter Grippe, Hugh Mesibov, and Angelo Pinto, (east-coasters all) were noticed and admired! Peggy Bacon's ink drawing, Seated Woman Drawing, 1930, was one of the hits! (They just don't make cigarette holders like that anymore.)

PETER GRIPPE, NEW YORK ABSTRACTION, 1944

ART SANTA FE

Posted: July 05, 2015 13:23

FOR THE FIRST TIME WE WILL BE SHOWING AT   ART SANTA FE BOOTH 208 SANTA FE CONVENTION CENTER 201 WEST MARCY STREET, SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO     PREVIEW: THURSDAY, JULY 9, 5 TO 8 PM   RUN OF SHOW: FRIDAY, SATURDAY, AND SUNDAY, JULY 10 THROUGH 11, 11 AM TO 6 PM   WE ARE FEATURING MODERNISM (SURREALISM, CUBISM, INDIAN SPACE, AND ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM): WILL BARNET, WILLIAM BAZIOTES, THURLOE CONOLLY, HOWARD DAUM, PETER GRIPPE, FANNIE HILLSMITH, FRANZ KLINE, HUGH MESIBOV, AND ANNE RYAN, AS WELL AS NEW YORK...

WILLIAM BAZIOTES at Allentown Art Museum

Posted: May 25, 2015 15:01

On view through August 23, 2015 WILLIAM BAZIOTES: SURREALIST WATERCOLORS Allentown Art Museum 31 North Fifth Street Allentown, PA   The museum notes “Baziotes (1912-1963) was an important contributor to Abstract Expressionism who also upheld the mysterious, dreamlike, and poetic aspects of Surrealism.”   On Wednesday, June 3, at noon, Elaine Mehalakes will give a gallery talk on the exhibition. Call to reverse a space: 610-432-4333 ext.110. Museum members $15, Others $20.   Link to Gallery site: ...

Last Three Days for CCP WPA*JOBS Show

Posted: May 21, 2015 10:26

Last three days – On view through Saturday, May 23 WPA*JOBS As George Biddle told FDR, artists are workers too! Will Barnet, Fred Becker, George Biddle, Michael J. Gallagher, Riva Helfond, Louis Lozowick, Hugh Mesibov, Claire Mahl Moore, Louis Schanker, Harry Sternberg, Lynd Ward. Center for Contemporary Printmaking 299 West Avenue Norwalk, CT The Center is located in the old carriage house of the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion.   Link to Gallery site where show is illustrated: http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=wpa   Hugh...