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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 cragged, gray background that, suggesting an urban wall, recasts them as giant graffiti. These are physically obstreperous works, shot through with unsettling emotions.   Link to entire article: ...

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Every once in a while, a painting comes into our gallery that just knocks you off your feet. Painted in luscious colors, this large scale 48" x 48" work is a masterpiece of composition and execution. Created around 1919, at the height of the popularity of American Impressionism, George Ames Aldrich (1872-1941), pushes the envelope to produce a thoroughly modernist image of a traditional Cape Ann theme, the busy docks of Gloucester harbor. The influence of the European modernists first seen by many American artists at the famous Armory Show of 1913, ushered in one of the most creative ...

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  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 Missourians-turned-Californians, Dorothy Browdy Kushner and Fred Shane. Continuing our California theme will be work by natives Fred Becker, Claire Mahl Moore, Pele deLappe, and Ansei Uchima.        Not to be ...

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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 Shipyard pieces, Anne Ryans' New York Harbor from the Helluva Town show, and Fred Shane's Simi Valley, California.     

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Twenty works by leading American artists such as Thomas Cole, George Inness, Alfred Maurer, Jane Peterson, Thomas B. Pope and Anthony Thieme, are on loan from the private collection of John and Jean Wilkinson to the Appleton Museum of Art. The exhibit, which runs through July 25, illustrates art movements from the Hudson River School of the 19th century to early 20th century modernism. Also, on view through May 30 is "Florida Journeys: African-American Artists From The Sunshine State" with nearly 40 artworks by some of Florida’s finest African-American artists such as Kenneth Falana, ...

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