Los Angeles Art Show

2012-01-21 22:52:49 -0700

The Los Angeles Art Show is at the LA Convention Center through Sunday, January 22, 2012.

  We are featuring Judith Shahn’s Back Yards, Greenwich Village, 1948, and a group of Anne Ryan paintings and works on paper. In an inaugural view, Theodore Haupt’s Three Graces, 1941, pairs with Acrobats, 1937. Also hanging are Bernard Rosenquit’s Playroom, 1946, and drawings and prints by Peggy Bacon and Her Circle -- ...

Bertrand Goldberg at the Art Institute of Chicago

2011-11-28 11:41:12 -0700

Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention is on view at the Art Institute through January 15, 2012.

A Chicago native, Goldberg is known for the Marina City, Raymond Hilliard Homes, and River City projects. As both an engineer and architect, ...

New York Times review of Anne Ryan: The Black-Line Woodcuts

2011-11-16 08:17:24 -0700

In her New York Times review of November 4, 2011, Roberta Smith wrote:

(Ryan’s) subjects include bathers, reclining nudes, still lifes and juggling clowns. Most are implicitly nocturnal, which is especially effective in stark images of apartment buildings and in two examples of “The Argument.” Here two scrawled figures confront each other against a ...

Judith Shahn, The Early Work

2011-09-18 14:19:41 -0600

Day Off, Stonewall, Texas, March 23, 2011

2011-03-23 16:38:19 -0600

This is our day off after the Chicago Print and Drawing fair and before the McNay Fair in San Antonio. We are in the Texas Hill Country, actually Stonewall, established 1860. We spent the day visiting historic Fredericksburg and Enchanted Rock, a pink granite batholith, the second largest in the US.

Since arriving ...

Chicago Print and Drawing Fair

2011-03-17 21:25:53 -0600

The Chicago Print and Drawing Fair is currently on view in the Yates Gallery of the Chicago Cultural Center, March 17 through March 20, 2011. Fourteen dealers are showing, all International Fine Print Dealers Association members. At this fair we are featuring works by women: Peggy Bacon (in advance of our April show), Riva Helfond, Anne Ryan, and Marguerite Zorach. Will Barnet, James Daugherty, ...

ABSOLUTE ABSTRACTION

2011-02-28 07:59:47 -0700

American Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper, 1942-1972.

Absolute Abstraction is on view through March 12. Works in this extensive, wide-ranging show date from Josef Albers’ classic lithograph, Prefatio, 1942, to James Daugherty’s pastel, Synchromist Compostion, 1972. Also included are cubist works by ...

LA Art Show

2011-01-20 10:16:58 -0700

January 20, 2011.

The LA Art Show opens to the public today and both the fair and the weather are beautiful. There’s a giant sign on the Convention Center for all the world to see, and it’s 70-ish, sunny, calm – just terrific.

The Show runs through Sunday, January 23. We have paintings from Hugh Mesibov’s surrealist period, The Wartime Shipyard, 1942-45, and works by ...

Art Miami, Booth A-85

2010-12-02 07:44:21 -0700

Art Miami is in full swing. At our booth, A-85, in the north tent (one of three), Hugh Mesibov's Siege (Leningrad), 1943-44, and Fred Shane's Portrait of Man with Orange Shirt, 1940, are getting lots of attention. The New York, NY section features James Daugherty, Riva Helfond, Anne Ryan, and Louis ...

Art Miami

2010-11-29 07:34:09 -0700

Yesterday, we began setting up at Art Miami. Four works from Hugh Mesibov's Wartime Shipyard are up along with three from our recent Fred Shane show. There is a group of New York City subjects (James Daugherty, Riva Helfond, and Louis Schanker) and modernist works by Fanne Hillsmith and Anne Ryan. Peggy Bacon and Will Barnet are also featured.

The benefit preview is tomorrow evening, November 30, and the show runs through Sunday, December 5.

Peter Grippe Show now on view

2010-11-17 08:20:56 -0700

The prints and drawings by Peter Grippe (1912-2002) now on view date from 1942 to 1969. They are shown in association with the Allentown Art Museum which featured the artist's works in a recent show, Peter Grippe, A Personal Vocabulary .

LYND WARD, The Six Woodcut Novels newly issued.

2010-10-19 08:39:41 -0600

Edited by Art Spiegelman, LYND WARD, SIX NOVELS IN WOODCUTS, was released by The Library of America on October 14. This handsome publication features, in additional to all the prints for the Novels (dating from 1929 to 1937), nine essays by Ward, and an appreciation by Spiegelman, author of Maus.

30th Annual Baltimore Antiques Fair, Booth 1837

2010-09-03 07:52:56 -0600

Home of Mary Pickersgill, maker of Francis Scott Key’s Star Spangled Banner, the Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower, 1911, and the 30th Annual Baltimore Antiques show -- Baltimore is terrific.

We are at the fair (along with more than 500 other dealers) with several of Hugh Mesibov's Wartime ...

In Praise of Anne Ryan Collages

2010-08-14 14:05:13 -0600

A gem of an exhibition, The Prismatic Eye: Collages by Anne Ryan, 1948-54, is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through September 6. In addition to the paper pieces there is one painting by Ryan and two works by Kurt Schwitters. It was the visit to an exhibition of collages by Schitters in 1948 that prompted Ryan to leave off most of her other efforts and concentrate on this medium for her six remaining years.

The Metropolitan reports that she made about four hundred ...

HELLUVA TOWN now on view.

2010-07-16 13:35:30 -0600

90 Years of New York City Paintings and Works on Paper, 1919-2008

Work by 30 artists including Will Barnet, Isabel Bishop, Howard Cook, Howard Daum, Henry Glintenkamp, Blanche Grambs, Edward Laning, Margaret Lowengrund, Louis Lozowick, James Penney, Anne Ryan, Louis Schanker, Ben Shahn, Harry Sternberg, Lynd Ward.

Themes include the Times Square, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, Union Square, Washington Square, Tenements, Immigration, and Political ...

Helluva Town, Summer Show, 2010

2010-07-05 10:52:24 -0600

NEW YORK CITY IN PAINTINGS AND WORKS ON PAPER, SPANNING 90 YEARS

JULY 8 THROUGH AUGUST 19, 2010

SHOW HOURS: TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, 11 AM TO 5 PM

IMAGES MAY BE SEEN AT: WWW.SUSANTELLERGALLERY.COM

An extensive summer exhibition of images of New York City, from 1918 to 2008, including works Will Barnet, Fred Becker, ...

Abe Blashko, 90th Birthday Celebration, 75-Year Retrospective

2010-06-04 10:57:56 -0600

Now up and ready in the gallery: A 75-Year Retrospective of Works on Paper by Seattle-born Abe Blashko. Included are some of his earliest, most bizarre images including The Puppet, Le Miserable, and The Man Who Laughs, all 1939. Three pastels from the Ratmen Series (including The Golem) are show as well as drawings from his 1995 publication, Saint Mark's Place. Also included are political images; there is an especially biting Cheney With a Spare Heart, ...

St. Louis Mercantile Library Fair

2010-05-20 11:06:07 -0600

Back in the Gallery from Missouri. The St. Louis Mercantile Library fair was wonderful. In spite of the rain the event was amazingly well attended. In particular there was interest in work by Michael J. Gallagher, Joe Jones, and Fred Shane.

At the Gallery the Hugh Mesibov Wartime Shipyard is extended through Thursday, May 27.

Hugh Mesibov Memories of the Wartime Shipyard

2010-05-12 12:35:43 -0600

HUGH MESIBOV, The Wartime Shipyard, Surrealist Works of 1942/45. EXTENDED THROUGH MAY, 27, 2010.

During World War II Hugh Mesibov (born 1916) was a First Class Ship Fitter --- one of more than 18,000 workers employed at the historic William Cramp & Son Shipbuilding Company in Philadelphia. Cramp’s, founded in 1830, had been closed since 1927, but was re-opened in 1941; the USS Miami, a Navy cruiser, was built there. On the last day, when the job ended in 1945, President ...

Hugh Mesibov show at Susan Teller Gallery extended through May 27

2010-05-12 12:26:44 -0600

The Hugh Mesibov Wartime Shipyard show at the Susan Teller Gallery is now EXTENDED through May 27, 2010

Hugh Mesibov: The Wartime Shipyard
Surrealist Works of 1942/45, Paintings and Drawings

Link to site:
www.susantellergallery.com
The entire show may be viewed under Exhibitions or Current.

During World War II Hugh Mesibov was a First Class Ship Fitter at the historic ...

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