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Families/Cities SHIFT -- NOW ON VIEW
Posted: April 11, 2013 12:43 Last Updated: | Susan TellerFamilies/Cities SHIFT is on view at the Susan Teller Gallery from April 5 through May 11, 2013. Reception for Kitty Leech, Gwyneth Leech, Jody Pinto, and Anna Pinto: Saturday, April 13, from 4 to 6 PM. In conjunction with the Ideas City Festival, sponsored by the New Museum. This exhibition concerns nine artists from two families, the Gallagher-Leeches and the Pintos, whose histories converge over the decades, from the New Deal Era through today. Both began in Philadelphia, summered in New Jersey, and made the transition to New York. Besides the geographical parallels, the familie...
San Antonio Review, March 2013
Posted: March 17, 2013 16:24 Last Updated: | Susan TellerThe 2013 McNay Art Museum Fair was early this year, March 2 and 3. It was in the high 60s or low 70s everyday and just beautiful. Ours was the booth between the entrance doors. In particular there was interest in work by William Baziotes, Peggy Bacon, Franz Kline, Angelo Pinto, Anne Ryan, Louis Schanker, and Helen A. Strojny. The fair is located just across the hall from the mid-century American room -- we could practically see Baziotes’ White Bird of 1950, from our booth. With a few hours to play tourist we visited the site of the nineteenth-century Pearl Brewing Company. Currently ...
PROCESS AND PAINTING, on view through Saturday, February 23
Posted: February 19, 2013 08:54 Last Updated: | Susan TellerPAINTINGS WITH RELATED PREPARATORY WORKS RIVA HELFOND FANNIE HILLSMITH ANGELO PINTO FRED SHANE Use this link to view entire show: http://www.flickr.com/photos/susanteller/sets/72157632725455639/ IN THE ALLEY GALLERY: WILLIAM BAZIOTES SURREALIST DRAWINGS OF THE 1930S, CONTINUED Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/susanteller/sets/72157631962211728/
Report from Miami, December, 2012
Posted: December 10, 2012 11:51 Last Updated: | Susan TellerIt was terrific to be at INK Miami – this past Wednesday through Sunday. The days were in the 70s, sometimes cloudy, with occasional sun showers. Maps showed either twenty-one or twenty-four fairs, more or less even divided between Miami and Miami Beach. INK Miami was at the Suites of Dorchester Hotel on Collins Avenue at 19th Street – essentially the center of the Miami Beach Art Fair World.The show was well attended, right through the days, and the visitors were knowledgeable. Several high school and college groups came through -- they were always a lot of fun to talk to and...
WILLIAM BAZIOTES
Posted: November 28, 2012 10:05 Last Updated: | Susan TellerWilliam Baziotes: A Centennial Exhibition, Surrealist Drawings of the 1930s, is on view at the Susan Teller Gallery from November 15 through December 29, 2012. (Closed December 2 - 11 for INK Miami.) Born in Pittsburgh, raised in Reading, PA, Baziotes (1912-1963) came to New York City in 1933. He attended the National Academy of Design and graduated in 1936 and then worked on the New Deal Projects. In the late 1930s he met the artists Jimmy Ernst, Gerome Kamrowski, and Matta, with whom he explored Surrealism. In early 1940s he met Jackson Pollock, Andre Masson, and Robert Motherwell, Abs...
Back to the Future of Cool: Clarke Auction's Midcentury Selection for November 18th Sale.
Posted: November 14, 2012 13:57 Last Updated: | Joseph Ronan Clarke Taking the best of the 1950s and bringing it into the present has become the specialty of Clarke Auction in recent months. Theoretically, time travel has not been invented, but Clarke Auction certainly comes close by bringing midcentury back to the future. Firing up their flux capacitors for Sunday November 18th at 2pm are the top design names of Paul Evans, Mira Nakashima, Eero Aarnio, Paul Kjaerholm, Paul McCobb, Harry Bertoia, Bruno Matheson, Vladimir Kagan, and Karl Springer. Hoping to prove that lightning strikes twice, not only on clock towers, but at auctions as well, P...
Rebuilding with Art: Clarke Auction's November 18th Sale Provides Renewal After Sandy.
Posted: November 14, 2012 08:45 Last Updated: | Joseph Ronan ClarkeAfter Hurricane Sandy, we are all reminded that we may lose our possessions, but we never lose our need to be surrounded by beauty and brightness. A force of nature forces changes in landscape, residence, and environment, so why not a change in what we fill our homes and our lives with? Clarke Auction, Westchester's Premier Auction House, appreciates the severity of destruction that Sandy has left behind, down to a personal level. They also appreciate people's need to rebuild and renew. On Sunday November 18th, Clarke Auction will provide over 400 lots of beauty and structure in...
New York Print Fair
Posted: October 31, 2012 16:41 Last Updated: | Susan TellerThe New York IFPDA Print Fair is scheduled to open tomorrow, postponed from today. Public hours start Friday at Noon. (As it stands now we have not yet moved into the Armory. The Gallery Building is locked up tight. We have big hopes for tomorrow. ) The plan for the Print Fair is a wall of Angelo Pinto wood engravings and etchings, a modernist group with William Baziotes, Dorothy Browdy Kushner, Anne Ryan, and Louis Schanker, and a selection of pieces from our Coal & Steel Collection including Michael J. Gallagher's Sunday Evening, 1936.
Important Bob Thompson exhibition
Posted: October 24, 2012 09:32 Last Updated: | Warren PayneThe wonderful Cressman Center in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, has an exceptional – and very important – exhibition up now: Seeking Bob Thompson: Dialogue/Object. Bob Thompson (1937-1966) studied art at the University of Louisville in the 1950s under a Hite scholarship. He subsequently left Louisville for New York, where his talent was showcased in a Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective in 1998. His colorful paintings speak for themselves, but are also striking for their references to great Western art of the past and African-American themes. There will be a reception and cura...
Angelo Pinto, A Retrospective, 1928 to 1987: Paintings, Drawings, and The Complete Prints
Posted: October 17, 2012 15:19 Last Updated: | Susan TellerANGELO PINTO (1908-1994) The exhibition, Angelo Pinto, A Retrospective, 1928 to 1987: Paintings, Drawings, and The Complete Prints, is at the Susan Teller Gallery, October 6 through November 8, 2012. Concurrently the Gallery is publishing Angelo Pinto: The Complete Prints, with essays by Maria Pinto Carland, Richard J. Wattenmaker, and Susan Teller. The entire show may be viewed at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/susanteller/sets/72157631668773956/ The career of Angelo Pinto (1908-1994) spans more than six decades, from the late 1920s just to the 19...
A Rosewood By Any Other Name : Arne Vodder, Eames, and Evans at Clarke Auction's October 21st Sale.
Posted: October 16, 2012 13:55 Last Updated: | Joseph Ronan ClarkeMidcentury Modern furniture has been recently challenging the idea that only fine art is art. The combination of functionality, design foresight, elegance, and edginess has made the midcentury modern market bring fine art numbers at auction over the last several months. Clarke Auction in Larchmont, NY, Westchester's Premier Auction House, has successfully navigated the rough economy of late by providing its bidders with exceptional midcentury selections in its last several sales. The upcoming Sunday, October 21st sale at Clarke Auction will maintain the reputation for ...
Furniture Friendships : A Midcentury Hangout at Clarke Auction.
Posted: September 20, 2012 11:50 Last Updated: | Joseph Ronan ClarkeSpringer. Tiffany. Evans. Nakashima. What may sound like a Sunday night baseball lineup is actually more of a midcentury social gathering in Larchmont, NY's Clarke Auction. All of these makers of exceptional furniture and lighting come together at Clarke's upcoming Sunday, September 30th sale to make up an eclectic cast of characters. Nakashima, the creative genius and humble guru of the midcentury social club, brings the natural energy of his Conoid Table...to the table. The Conoid's arborous style, however, proves to be a point of personality conflict with the industrialist of the gr...
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Chasing Mermaids: Paintings by Ralph Cahoon (1910-1982)
Posted: September 07, 2012 11:59 Last Updated: | Marine Arts GalleryRalph Cahoon was born in Chatham, Massachusetts, (Cape Cod). As a youth his favorite pastime was sketching the waterways. He met his wife Martha and was married in 1932. Both developed a folk art style which they began painting directly on simple furniture pieces. In 1959, Ralph began his famous series of mermaid paintings. These were avidly collected from galleries on Nantucket to Palm Beach, Florida. Even Jacqueline Kennedy purchased two of Ralph's paintings in 1961. Josiah K. Lilly III, an heir to the pharmaceutical fortune was one of Cahoon's most enthusiastic patrons, purchasing ov...
Another Cropsey Discovered in New York.
Posted: September 06, 2012 10:08 Last Updated: | Joseph Ronan ClarkeA fresh to market oil by Hudson River School artist, Jasper Cropsey, was recently authenticated by the Newington-Cropsey Foundation with the help of Clarke’s Fine Art Specialist, Nelia Moore, and will be put up for auction at Clarke’s Larchmont, NY location on September 10th, 2012. The Cropsey oil had been kept away in a private collection since the mid 1960’s and was unavailable to the market until now. The emergence of this newly discovered Cropsey comes a little more than a year after a Clarke Auction consigner brought in two unknown paintings, which were later verified...
At the Whitney: Signs & Symbols
Posted: August 26, 2012 15:59 Last Updated: | Susan Teller Through October 28, 2012 works by WILL BARNET, WILLIAM BAZIOTES, DOROTHY DEHNER, MORRIS GRAVES, and ANNE RYAN, are featured Signs & Symbols, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NYC. This show explores the development of American abstraction in the postwar period, from the mid-1940s to the end of the 50s, in paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, and photographs, by more than forty artists. These works are calligraphic, with traces of the figure; together they form a search for a distinctly American aesthetic. In the New Yo...
Now on view: COAL & STEEL, SOURCES & USES
Posted: August 04, 2012 07:08 Last Updated: | Susan TellerThe exhibition Coal & Steel, Sources & Uses, is on view at the Susan Teller Gallery from July 17 through August 29, 2012. Paintings and works on paper from 1932 to 1952 by Ida Abelman, Rita Albers, Will Barnet, Fred Becker, Bernarda Bryson Shahn, James Daugherty, Michael J. Gallagher, Hugo Gellert, Blanche Grambs, Peter Grippe, Riva Helfond, Axel Horn, Mervin Jules, Charles Keller, Dorothy Browdy Kushner, Hugh Mesibov, Angelo Pinto, Albert Potter, Georges Schreiber, Ben Shahn, Fred Shane, Mitchell Siporin, William E. Smith, Harry Sternberg, Lynd Ward, are in the...
G. Caliman Coxe, African-American abstract artist
Posted: August 03, 2012 11:27 Last Updated: | Warren PayneFor four decades G. (Gloucester) Caliman Coxe (1907-1999) was the dean of African-American artists in Louisville, Kentucky, an art scene in the 1950s and ‘60s that included such artists as Bob Thompson and Sam Gilliam, among several others. Coxe, a native of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, lived in Louisville from 1924 until his death in 1999. In his 40s he entered the University of Louisville to study art. He was the first African-American to receive a Hite art scholarship to the university and was the first black fine-arts graduate of the university. The university was a center for ...
Day Trip, Philadelphia, July 6, 2012
Posted: July 08, 2012 09:43 Last Updated: | Susan TellerIt was 95 degrees in Philadelphia on Friday, but the humidity must have been low. It was a bright, cloud-free day, and perfectly comfortable, even walking the tree-less blocks between the Reading Terminal Market and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. PAFA and Dr. Barnes was in its last three days at the Academy. According to curator Robert Cozzolino, Barnes first showed works from his European collection there in 1923. Included in the PAFA’s show were two works by Angelo Pinto, a large version of Amusement Park, 1935, and a related, smaller study. It’s always great to ...
Fred Becker's Exquisite Corpse
Posted: July 04, 2012 08:26 Last Updated: | Susan TellerThe Exquisite Corpse was an artistic idea used by the Surrealists. Possibly dating to World War I, it took hold in the mid 1920s. Usually more than one person participated. Participants wrote or drew on a sheet of paper that was folded to conceal the previous contribution and then passed the paper along to the next person. The show at the Museum of Modern Art, on view through July 9, is especially concerned with how the Surrealists used the idea of the Exquisite Corpse to create “fantastic composite figures.” The American artist, Fred Becker (1913-2004), made a...
St. Louis Mercantile Library Fair Review:
Posted: June 13, 2012 08:44 Last Updated: | Susan TellerSt. Louis Mercantile Review: As with so many places, Spring came early this year to St. Louis, and there were many wonderful gardens to see while driving to Mr. Wizard’s. It was a beautiful weekend on the University of St. Louis campus, with only a few thunderstorms. There were malllard familes with tiny babies in the pond and precious sweet strawberries from Thies' Farm on North Hanley Road. The fair, May 4, 5 and 6, was very well attended – by far the biggest crowd ever. There was interest in the Fred Shane material as well as t...
Whaling - The Advent of Art Collecting
Posted: June 01, 2012 07:10 Last Updated: | Rex StewartDocuments, motion pictures, lectures, and annual gatherings -all are mediums working together to bring back the era of whaling. With this year's celebration at Mystic Seaport, in Mystic Connecticut, with the restoration of whaleship CHARLES W. MORGAN, more art venues are honing in on whaling themes in high numbers. At homes on Cape Cod, shoreline communities in and around New England, and maritime communities -worldwide, the whale has been an integral part of our culture. In history and art, there is no comparison to the degree of interest this mammal has promoted. Each year there are co...
Damaged Van Ryper Models -The Great Investment / Rex Stewart
Posted: May 20, 2012 09:38 Last Updated: | Rex StewartSome years ago it was suggested that I build waterline models for profitable sales, similiar to the work of noted builder Charles Van Ryper. At that time I was not familiar with his work, nor did I know the history about his contemporary "Art Deco' style which emerged when he produced his Travel Series prior to the Second World War. Today, in the maritime arts, especially in the Collectible market of ship models, there seem to be a strong resurgence of collectors sprouting up in America and across the atlantic relative to the antique shipmodels of Charles Van Ryper. This is due, in part,...
Americans in Mexico EXTENDED
Posted: May 13, 2012 16:18 Last Updated: | Susan TellerThe Americans in Mexico show has been extened, by appointment or by chance, through May 23. On view are paintings and works on paper by Peggy Bacon, Abe Blashko, Elizabeth Catlett, Theodore Haupt, Lawrence A. Jones, Charles Keller, Dorothy Browdy Kushner, Doris Rosenthal, and Judith Shahn. Judith Shahn’s Honeymooners, 1950, records a time-honored tradition: a young couple get their picture taken at Lake Xochomilco, Mexico City, while, working in the same year, 1950, Theodore Haupt presents a modernist fiesta in Market Place (San Miguel Allende).
"Scandal"
Posted: May 07, 2012 17:04 Last Updated: | Paul G. SteinWhen he wasn’t painting, Hudson River School artist David Johnson loved to draw, with confident lines on big sheets. Every once in a while his pencil traced the figure of a woman. For example, in an 1886 drawing (above), a woman in full dress looks out over a pond in the Adirondacks. In lieu of a visible expression she appears self-possessed, as though lost in thought. In the forested background, meanwhile, is seen the shadowy and skulking figure of a man. The scene can be thought of as an unintentional metaphor: hidden in the trees of the Hudson River School artists lurked passion, res...
Americans in Mexico
Posted: April 19, 2012 15:48 Last Updated: | Susan TellerWorks by PEGGY BACON, ABE BLASHKO, ELIZABETH CATLETT, THEODORE HAUPT, LAWRENCE A. JONES, CHARLES KELLER, DOROTHY BROWDY KUSHNER, DORIS ROSENTHAL, and JUDITH SHAHN are on view through April 28. Link to site: http://gallery.me.com/stg568#100874 This is the first show in Room 502, our fifth location at 568 Broadway.
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