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“That’s Amore: Travel Posters to Love” at International Poster Gallery
Released: May 22, 2013BOSTON – Wanderlust is the theme of International Poster Gallery’s 21st annual Summer Show, “That’s Amore: Travel Posters to Love”. The core of the exhibition traces the fascinating development of travel to Italy, the “Sunny Boot of Europe,” from the rise of railroad travel in the 1890s to the 1960s. Featuring more than 100 original vintage travel posters, the exhibition will be rounded out by a select group of fine posters from every continent. “That’s Amore” opens June 11 and runs through September 2, 2013. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday 10 am to 6 pm and Sunday no...
New Collectors Night at International Poster Gallery
Released: April 4, 2013BOSTON, MA – As part of International Poster Gallery’s (IPG) newest exhibition, “Getting Started: Affordable Poster Classics for the New Collector”, the gallery is presenting a special program on April 18, 2013 from 6-8pm designed to introduce new collectors to the world of poster collecting. As part of New Collectors Night, gallery owner and poster expert Jim Lapides will present a special program covering a brief history of posters and a crash course on the dos and don’ts of collecting. Refreshments will be served and attendees will have special access to the gallery’s collection o...
John P. Axelrod to Receive 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award at Gala Preview for "AD20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries Show"
Released: March 5, 2013Boston, Massachusetts – Collector and philanthropist John P. Axelrod will receive the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gala Preview of the 6th annual AD20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries on Thursday evening, March 21 at The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street in Boston's South End. The Gala Preview, from 5:30-8:30pm, benefits Boston Architectural College (BAC), New England's largest independent, accredited college of spatial design. More than 600 people are expected at the event, which will raise over $100,000 for the BAC...
A Formal Realist: The Works of John Dubrow
Released: February 26, 2013The Demuth Museum is pleased to announce our next exhibition, A Formal Realist: The Works of John Dubrow, to open on March 1. John Dubrow has been pursuing his endeavor of painting for over thirty years. This exhibition and accompanying catalog will feature paintings from the start of Dubrow’s career in the 1980s through his most current work. Demuth Museum Executive Director Anne M. Lampe notes that “this mid-career retrospective is the first exhibition to bring together an overview of Dubrow’s work. This artist, much like Charles Demuth, chooses realistic and iden...
“Getting Started: Affordable Poster Classics for the New Collector” at International Poster Gallery
Released: February 22, 2013BOSTON, MA - International Poster Gallery (IPG) proudly presents “Getting Started: Affordable Poster Classics for the New Collector”, a show and sale of 50 original vintage posters under $2500 that reveal why the field remains one of the best for newcomers. The show features fine examples from several styles, subjects and eras to indicate the incredible breadth of opportunities for any budding collector. Highly accessible, beautifully printed and designed, often by world- leading artists, advertising posters have more than a 30 year track record of appreciation. A New Collectors Nigh...
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The Heckscher Museum of Art Presents Mirrored Images: Realism in the 19th and 20th Centuries On View December 8 through March 24, 2013
Released: December 8, 2012The Heckscher Museum of Art is pleased to present Mirrored Images: Realism in the 19th and 20th Centuries. On view from December 8 through March 24, 2013 this exhibition is drawn exclusively from the Museum’s Permanent Collection and reveals the enduring appeal of the observed world as a source of artistic inspiration. Throughout the history of art, artists have turned to the observed world as a source of inspiration. Mirrored Images explores the various realist movements of the 19th and 20th Centuries, beginning with the Barbizon movement in mid-19th century France and ...
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The Heckscher Museum of Art Presents Modernizing America: Artists of the Armory Show On View December 8, 2012 - April 14, 2013
Released: December 8, 2012The Heckscher Museum of Art is pleased to present Modernizing America: Artists of the Armory Show. On view from December 8 through April 14, 2013 this Museum Permanent Collection exhibition celebrates the centennial of the Armory Show featuring works by American artists who participated in the legendary exhibition that introduced modernist art to America. In 1913, the American public was introduced to avant-garde European art styles at the International Exhibition of Modern Art, held at the Lexington Avenue Armory and known as the Armory Show. Organized by the Association of A...
Urban Intersection - Painting Exhibition in Boston
Released: October 11, 2012Quidley & Company Fine Art proudly presents Urban Intersection, a group invitational exhibition and sale opening Thursday, October 25th through November 25th, 2012. An extraordinary group of nineteen contemporary artists working in the genre of representational painting explore the multifarious sensory information universally experienced in urban life. The urban setting and its corresponding lifestyle serve as the source inspiration for these extraordinary new works. Highlights of the exhibition include Alexandra Pacula’s vibrantly nuanced photorealist night paintings and Matthew C...
An American Vision: An Exhibition of American Paintings at Godel & Co. Fine Art
Released: October 8, 2012Godel & Co. is pleased to announce the exhibition An American Vision, on view at the New York gallery from October 11 to November 15. Featuring recent highlights from the gallery’s holdings of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art, the exhibition includes paintings by John Atherton, Frank Benson, Albert Bierstadt, Jasper Cropsey, Victor Dubreuil, Ernest Fiene, Robert Gwathmey, Joe Jones, Willard Metcalf, Thomas Moran, Severin Roesen, A. F. Tait, Dwight Tryon, and Guy Wiggins. A 112-page, full-color catalogue is available. Of particular note is a remarkab...
Global Persuasion: Original Mid-Century Modern Posters at International Poster Gallery
Released: September 28, 2012International Poster Gallery (IPG) proudly presents Global Persuasion: Original Mid-Century Modern Posters, a show and sale of original vintage posters from 1945 – 1965. The Mid-Century poster genre, which has seen a meteoric rise in popularity in recent years, encompasses a broad spectrum of motifs and styles that responded to the technological and cultural developments of the post-World War II world. Included in the exhibition are works by such pioneers of Mid-Century design as Armin Hofmann, Herbert Leupin, Erik Nitsche and David Klein. Global Persuasion runs throu...
The Anita Shapolsky Gallery Presents "The New York School" through January 12, 2012
Released: September 28, 2012Peter Agostini, Alcopley, Edward Avedisian, Seymour Boardman, Ilya Bolotowsky, Norman Bluhm, Ernest Briggs, Gandy Brodie, James Brooks, Peter Busa, Lawrence Calcagno, Herman Cherry, Friedel Dzubas, Jimmy Ernst, John Hultberg, Ruben Kadish, Aristodimos Kaldis, Frederick Kiesler, Albert Kotin, Ibram Lassaw, Michael Loew, Joan Mitchell, Louise Nevelson, Claes Oldenburg, Philip Pavia, Joe Stefanelli, Taro Yamamoto & Wilfrid Zogbaum "The Artist's World" Now Available in Limited Supply Softcover edition, $20.00 +shipping Hardcover edition, $25.00 +shipping This exhibition is based on t...
Narrative Fragments Exhibition - Quidley & Company, Boston
Released: September 12, 2012For Immediate Release: Exhibition Title: Narrative Fragments Exhibition Dates: September 20th-October 20th, 2012 Opening Reception: Thursday, September 20th, 2012, 5:30 - 8:00pm. Catered. Location: Quidley & Company Fine Art 38 Newbury Street, 5th floor, Boston, MA 02116 Exhibition website: http://blog.quidleyandco.com/events/2012narrativefragments/ (Boston) - Quidley & Company Fine Art proudly presents Narrative Fragme...
Anne Packard Exhibition on Nantucket, MA
Released: August 6, 2012(Nantucket) – Quidley & Company Fine Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by the nationally recognized painter Anne Packard. With her iconic coastal imagery, Anne has been a dominant force on the Provincetown art scene for almost half a century, continuing a family tradition begun two generations ago by her grandfather, the renowned American Impressionist Max Bohm. Her paintings have inspired countless artists, yet to view an original Packard is to experience unequaled mastery of the medium and feeling for the subject matter. Anne’s spare, serene...
“Titans of The Sea: Vintage Advertising Posters From The Golden Age of Ocean Liners” Launches at InterContinental Boston
Released: August 2, 2012InterContinental Boston, a 424-room luxury hotel located on Boston’s burgeoning waterfront and just 1.5 miles from Boston’s Black Falcon Cruise Terminal, and International Poster Gallery launch “Titans of the Sea: Posters from the Golden Age of Ocean Liners”, an exhibit of some of the greatest vintage ocean liner advertising posters from 1914 - 1954. The show, which runs from July - December 2012 at the InterContinental Boston, explores the romance, history and adventure of ocean travel with 10 extraordinary selections from a recently acquired collection of more than 200 ocean li...
Watercolors of Newport and the Narragansett Bay
Released: July 26, 2012NEWPORT, RI - On view from August 4 - August 31, 2012 at the Spring Bull Gallery in Newport, Rhode Island are works by David Dewey, Robert Manice and Paul Rickert. The focus of this exhibition of watercolors, by these artists, is to highlight the natural beauty of Newport and its surrounding landscape. These three friends have developed their own unique styles in capturing light and form on paper. David Dewey, known for his expressive handling of washes on a monumental scale, captures the luminist glow of the sky over water. He has taught for many years at the National Academy of Fine Ar...
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Sixteenth Annual Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS) Slated For November 15-18, 2012 at The Cyclorama
Released: July 17, 2012Co-Producers Tony Fusco and Robert Four are pleased to announce the Sixteenth Annual Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS), to take place Thursday - Sunday, November 15-18, 2012 at The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for The Arts, 539 Tremont Street in Boston's hip and historic South End. Both traditional and contemporary galleries from the United States and Europe will offer more than 3,000 original works of art. The show opens with the Gala Preview on Thursday, November 15 from 5:30 to 8:30pm. Weekend show hours are Friday 1pm-8pm, Saturday 11am-8pm and Su...
Postermania!: Handpicked Gallery Favorites at International Poster Gallery
Released: July 9, 2012BOSTON, MA - International Poster Gallery (IPG) proudly presents Postermania!: Handpicked Summer Favorites, a show and sale of original vintage posters chosen by the gallery’s knowledgeable staff. The term “Postermania” was originally coined during the Belle Epoque and refers to the poster fever that swept Paris during the 1890s. Fittingly, the gallery’s 19th annual summer exhibition features a diverse selection of posters by subject, genre and period, each selected by IPG staff members to reflect their individual tastes. Included are works by renowned poster artists ...
New Installation of Early American Furniture and Decorative Arts from the Kaufman Collection to be Unveiled October 7, 2012, at National Gallery of Art with American Paintings from the Gallery's Collection
Released: June 25, 2012The National Gallery of Art presents Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, 1700–1830. When this installation opens on October 7, 2012, on the Ground Floor of the West Building, it will be a landmark moment for the nation's capital, which until this time has had no major presentation of early American furniture and related decorative arts on continual public view. The installation follows the promised gift in October 2010 of one of the largest and most refined collections of early American furniture in private hands, acquired with great connoisseurship over f...
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McNay Art Museum Presents Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine
Released: June 21, 2012San Antonio, TX- On June 6, 2012, the McNay Art Museum presents Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine, the most comprehensive survey of works by the Atlanta-based artist. Organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the exhibition highlights Bailey's experimentation with diverse media, showcasing sculptures, paintings, installations, works on paper, glass, modified found objects. In addition, the artist has created new art for Memory as Medicine. "We are excited to present Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine in the ideal setting of the Stieren Center for Exhibitions," said Will...
“Titans of the Sea” Extended at International Poster Gallery
Released: June 7, 2012BOSTON, MA - International Poster Gallery (IPG) announces that by popular demand, “Titans of the Sea: Posters from the Golden Age of Ocean Liners” will remain on display through July 1, 2012. The show, which has drawn visitors in person and online from around the world, features a stunning selection of the greatest vintage ocean liner posters. The extended show has been enhanced with a number of new additions, ranging in date from the birth of the “Floating Palace” in the 1890s to its decline in the Jet Age of the 1960s. The exhibition is the largest of its kind ever offere...
Peter Poskas: New Paintings on view at Spanierman Gallery
Released: April 30, 2012Spanierman Gallery, LLC is pleased to announce the opening on May 3, 2012 of Peter Poskas: New Paintings, an exhibition and sale of works by this eminent contemporary landscape painter. They consist of the images of old homes and farms in western Connecticut, a subject to which the artist has been devoted for over thirty years, as well as views of Monhegan Island and Stonington, Maine. Filled with glowing light that softens and silhouettes buildings, the images call to mind the long-established link between light and spiritual essence. At the same time, expressing the nee...
Wolfsonian Receives Donation of Over 3,600 AIDS-Themed Posters
Released: April 26, 2012(MIAMI BEACH, FL) The Wolfsonian–Florida International University is the recipient of a donation from Henry S. Hacker of more than 3,600 AIDS-themed posters from over eighty countries, produced between 1985 and 2010. To mark this major museum gift, The Wolfsonian–Florida International University presents the touring exhibition “Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010”, May 11 through September 9, 2012. For more information visit the museum's website at www.wolfsonian.org. "Graphic Intervention" explores the role the pos...
Jasmina Danowski: Counterglow - Exhibition opens May 3rd
Released: April 24, 2012Spanierman Modern Jasmina Danowski: Counterglow May 3-June 2, 2012 Gallery Hours: Monday-Saturday, 9:30a-5:30p If you wish further information, please email inquiry@spaniermanmodern.com. Spanierman Modern is pleased to announce the opening on May 3, 2012 of Jasmina Danowski: Counterglow, an exhibition of new oils and works on paper that are Danowski's most sensuous to date. Large in scale, these images draw us into vibrant worlds of fluid forms and sumptuous color. The works are notable for the variety of their mark-making and...
College for Creative Studies Hosts “Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985-2010” Exhibition
Released: March 9, 2012DETROIT, MICHIGAN – College for Creative Studies is the next stop for Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985-2010”, a major exhibition traveling through across the United States and running March 12-31, 2012 at College for Creative Studies, Valade Family Gallery. For additional information, please visit GraphicIntervention.org. Graphic Intervention is drawn largely from the collection of Jim Lapides, founder of International Poster Gallery in Boston, and was organized by Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt). Lap...
Mattatuck Museum Exhibits Gift of Contemporary Art
Released: February 28, 2012The Mattatuck Museum presents Many Visions/One Community featuring an array of art mediums by contemporary artists. The exhibit opened on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 with a public reception and runs through June 1, 2012. The Mattatuck Museum is pleased to announce a donation of contemporary art by collectors Benjamin Ortiz and Victor Torchia, Jr. Given at the time that Marie Galbraith is stepping down as director of the museum and moving to Director of Education and Public Programming, the donation reflects Marie's outreach to the various communities that make up our audiences...
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