Alexandre Gallery

Alexandre Gallery ALEXANDRE GALLERY represents and exhibits contemporary American artists and specializes in works by

George Bellows (1882 - 1925) first came to Monhegan, ten miles off the mainland and the second most remote year-round is...
08/30/2026

George Bellows (1882 - 1925) first came to Monhegan, ten miles off the mainland and the second most remote year-round island community in Maine, in 1911. He was accompanied by his teacher Robert Henri and a fellow student, Randall Davey. During this trip, Bellows painted approximately thirty plein-air paintings, among them OCEAN HEADLAND, BLACK HEAD, MONHEGAN. Bellows returned to the island in 1913 with his wife and two-year old daughter for what would become one of the most artistically productive periods in his career. In the three seasons that he painted on Monhegan, Bellows created some 275 land- and seascapes, fully half of his total life’s work.

ALEXANDRE featured this OCEAN HEADLAND painting in 2017 at The American Art Fair and was thrilled to see it again at the Monhegan Museum.

During our visit this week we were stunned by the beauty of the rugged landscape and ever-changing weather and sea (plus Maine fog!), its history as a fishing community, and the extraordinary painting that its location inspired, and continues to inspire. Groups of young and older plein-air painters were working at the iconic locations.

As coincidence would have it, way out on Monhegan, we crossed paths with old friends - Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - making a late-summer Maine art tour.

If you visit, Monhegan is easily accessible by ferry from three towns on the mainland. Day-trip or overnight. Accommodations are available at the historic Island Inn, which was built in 1907 and expanded in 1910, originally to house the new artist-tourist trade. An authentic step-back in time that needs to be booked months in advance. Other accommodations are available, but this is where we recommend!

HERE: Bellow, OCEAN HIGHLANDS, 1911; panel verso; Monhegan back shore from Squeaker Cove; Bellows, THROUGH THE TREES, 1913; Monhegan “Cathedral Woods;” Bellows, HARBOR AT MONHEGAN, 1913; two views from the Monhegan Museum looking down at the harbor; Robert Henri, EDGE OF THE ISLAND WOODS, 1918; Robert Henri, THE WOODS AT SUNSET; with Rod Bigelow, Director, Crystal Bridges.

Our thanks to our old friend John Walker for his participation in our Maine POP-UP, which closed last weekend. Wonderful...
08/22/2026

Our thanks to our old friend John Walker for his participation in our Maine POP-UP, which closed last weekend. Wonderful to see him so productively working, continuing to push his vision and motifs, the rhythms of the day, the tides and of life - Cezanne’s clock, increasingly present throughout.

In the catalogue accompanying our last show of John’s work in 2023 on Grand Street, poet and critic John Yau wrote:

Walker makes his marks directly. If the paint begins to run out of the brush, he does not replenish it, but continues making a trail that is both ghostly and visceral. Walker’s directness is simultaneously vulnerable and muscular. Integral to the way he has applied the paint, that trace of susceptibility adds a note of pathos to the painting. The pleasure of painting, of sensuously engaging with the everyday world, is mixed with a sense of unavoidable loss and time’s dissipating effect. Historically speaking, Cezanne’s disquieting oversized carapace is a precursor to the skulls he would focus on in his later paintings. In Walker’s paintings, they are also things left by the receding tide.

Thank you, John Walker ;)

Available! Thursday, the 20th, at The Ogunquit Museum of American Art benefit auction and gala. . .Lois Dodd is pleased ...
08/18/2026

Available! Thursday, the 20th, at The Ogunquit Museum of American Art benefit auction and gala. . .

Lois Dodd is pleased to support The Ogunquit Museum of American Art through her donation of an oil on aluminum “flashing” painting. While it is still summer now, in just a few short weeks the greens will shift to golden yellows and the air will cool - painted in 2021 from the artist’s sunroom overlooking over her back gardens in Cushing, Maine.

Art by the Sea Auction & Gala,
Thursday, August 20th, 5 to 8 pm,
at Cliff House Maine.

The Ogunquit Museum of American Art will bring together supporters, collectors, artists and community in celebration and support of the Museum. The evening will take place this Thursday at Cliff House Maine. Delicious hors d’oeuvres, drinks, a most beautiful coastal setting, and, of course, the finest company will precede their signature live auction.

For further information - to bid on this Lois Dodd and other amazing works - contact the Museum through its website: ogunquitmuseum.org. Or by message: Ogunquit Museum of American Art

It’s still summer! Not to worry - a few more weeks. But, when fall arrives, with it the new season, new shows and much ...
08/18/2026

It’s still summer! Not to worry - a few more weeks. But, when fall arrives, with it the new season, new shows and much excitement!

Mark the calendar with these dates on the Upper East Side:

Friday, September 18, 5:30 to 7:30, LISA SANDITZ: MISSING MOUNTAIN opens. New paintings and works on paper in the artist’s first New York show in more than a decade, and accompanied by a catalogue with text by Barry Schwabsky, who featured her work in his seminal book LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS NOW.

Then, Thursday, September 24, we will host an afternoon OPEN HOUSE at the gallery with a conversation between Sanditz and poet, critic John Yau at 4 pm that day. All welcome. Refreshments will be provided by our neighbor Via Quadronno.

See you in September!

Last weekend for our 2026 MAINE POP-UP.162 Russell Avenue, Rockport, Maine.Today and tomorrow - through Sunday, the 16th...
08/15/2026

Last weekend for our 2026 MAINE POP-UP.

162 Russell Avenue, Rockport, Maine.

Today and tomorrow - through Sunday, the 16th, noon to 5:30 pm. All welcome!

Thank you to all who visited - or still will visit - to the local press and Maine Public Radio, and to the Maine art community that so generously welcomed us again this summer. Look forward to returning July 2027!

Gallery artists with a Maine connection, including Will Barnet, are on view at our Maine POP-UP along-side our focus sho...
08/13/2026

Gallery artists with a Maine connection, including Will Barnet, are on view at our Maine POP-UP along-side our focus show of Emily Nelligan’s charcoal drawings from Great Cranberry Island. In addition to Barnet, other artists include (clockwise through the installation): Neil Welliver, Stuart Davis, Alex Katz, John Walker, Lois Dodd, Lisa Sanditz, Edith Schloss, Brett Bigbee, Susan Hartlett, John Laurent and Marsden Hartley.

The people and family close to Will Barnet were long a primary inspiration and muse. These subjects took a special significance in the early 1960s and a shift away from the pure abstraction of his landscape-inspired “Indian Space” works of the 1950s with his marriage to Elena and the birth of his daughter Ona, who each along with others close (including family cats ;) became rich subjects. Sometimes in moments of deep introspection or in awe and connection with the spirits of the natural world, these compositions reveal great emotional depth and universal feelings. Here, subjects include Barnet’s daughter at a window, his elderly sister with the fear and mystery of end-of-life, and a sketch of his wife on a widow’s walk inspired by the family’s first visits to Maine, summers in Chamberlain. Later the family gathered south of Bath in Phippsburg at the family’s summer inn.

HERE: THE SPIDER AS AN ARTIST, 1990 (oil) and details; THE DREAM I, 1990, and ELIM, c. 1980s.

A shout-out to Livia Sponberg-Paraday, whose beautiful, intimate show of recent still-life and figurative paintings rema...
08/12/2026

A shout-out to Livia Sponberg-Paraday, whose beautiful, intimate show of recent still-life and figurative paintings remains on view through this Friday, the 16th, .r.zio

FABRIZIO is a new by-appointment gallery space in a residential section of Ridgewood . . . just jump on the L. With the news around large galleries, many alternative spaces are opening-up all around - and Ridgewood is a fun neighborhood to discover. (PANINA, a block away is a great spot for lunch or a spritz.)

Sponberg-Paraday lives and works in Queens and received a BFA from Bard College.

HERE: COFFEE TABLE, 2026 (oil on canvas, 22 x 28 1/4 inches) and DUNKIN STILL LIFE, 2025 (oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches) and details.

Save the date!Lisa Sanditz and John Yau in conversation Thursday, September 24th, 4 to 5 pm, at Alexandre, 25 East 73rd,...
08/06/2026

Save the date!

Lisa Sanditz and John Yau in conversation Thursday, September 24th, 4 to 5 pm, at Alexandre, 25 East 73rd, on the occasion of Sanditz’s first New York one-person show in more than ten years!

LISA SANDITZ: MISSING MOUNTAIN
New Paintings and Works on Paper
Opening Friday, September 18th, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
On view through Saturday, November 7th

The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with text by Barry Schwabsky. Order through the gallery website after Labor Day.

Mark the calendar! Join us! All welcome ;)

Arthur Dove was born on this day in 1880, August 2. Born three years after both Marsden Hartley and Georgia O’Keeffe, D...
08/03/2026

Arthur Dove was born on this day in 1880, August 2. Born three years after both Marsden Hartley and Georgia O’Keeffe, Dove is our long-favorite from the Stieglitz Group and first-generation American modernists, and the artist who has been most central to our gallery’s activity in the narrow zone of historic material with which we work.

Three years ago, we opened our Third Floor at 25 East 73rd with a Dove painting retrospective that Holland Cotter called the “unmissable first full survey in a quarter century of the great American modernist painter . . . What he was for sure was American Modernism’s great visual Transcendentalist. His images of molten rain clouds and God’s-eye sunrises are views of the natural world as Thoreau might have seen and, more importantly, felt it. Dove always said that the meteorology - the ‘sensation of light’ - he painted was a personal, intuitive one.” Johanna Fateman wrote of this same show, “Celebrated for his lambent biomorphic forms, Dove is widely considered the first American painter to have developed a completely nonobjective strain of abstraction.”

The gallery will release a new publication documenting our 2023 exhibition, which included new writing by Debra Bricker Balken, the leading Dove scholar and author of the recently published catalogue raisonne of the artist’s work. The new gallery publication will be launched this coming December and January at Art Basel Miami Beach and The Winter Show. Beautifully designed by Phoebe Press in the Netherlands and creatively printed in Belgium, we will be excited to share this new book. Pre-orders will be taken on the gallery website beginning after Labor Day.

Happy Birthday Arthur Dove!

HERE: DAWN I, 1932 (Private Collection), DAWN II, 1932 (Detroit Institute of Arts); SUN AND MOON, 1932 (Private Collection); SUNDAY, 1932 (Private Collection); SUNRISE I, 1936 (Private Collection) - some with details.

Aspen Art FairHotel JeromeAspen, ColoradoToday and tomorrow, Friday, 11 to 6.Saturday, 11 to 4.Wonderful to bring the Ma...
07/30/2026

Aspen Art Fair
Hotel Jerome
Aspen, Colorado
Today and tomorrow, Friday, 11 to 6.
Saturday, 11 to 4.

Wonderful to bring the Maine woods of Neil Welliver and Lois Dodd to Aspen - following a successful fair last July with Tom Uttech - and along-side masterworks by de Kooning and O’Keeffe.

Message or e-mail ([email protected]) for passes or a PREVIEW.

Thanks to the Aspen Daily News for their coverage!

Aspen Art Fair Aspen Daily News

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