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Escape the cold with us this weekend at THE WINTER SHOW (January 24 through February 2)! This year’s booth presentation ...
01/22/2025

Escape the cold with us this weekend at THE WINTER SHOW (January 24 through February 2)! This year’s booth presentation will showcase over thirty-five paintings, drawings and sculptures, including a selection of oil paintings by American painter Marsden Hartley.

Hartley (1877-1943) spent much of his career traveling and painting his way around North America and Europe. His emotive works—depicting both large and small scale moments—celebrate the grandeur and nuances of nature as expressions of American culture. His deep reverence for the natural environment is reflected in the care with which he depicted his subject material: shadowy mountain ranges, intimate still lifes, and portraits of nature in transition.

Come see these and other works at our booth (B12). Additional featured artists include: Charles Burchfield, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Bob Thompson, Loren MacIver, Elizabeth Catlett, Gaston Lachaise, Horace Pippin, Arthur Dove, John Marin, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, Grant Wood, John La Farge, Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, and Tom Uttech.

THE WINTER SHOW

Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10065

Public Fair Hours:
Friday, January 24, 12pm – 8pm
Saturday, January 25, 12pm – 7pm
Sunday, January 26, 12pm – 6pm
Monday, January 27, 12pm – 8pm
Tuesday, January 28, 12pm – 4:30pm
Wednesday, January 29, 12pm – 8pm
Thursday, January 30, 12pm – 4:30pm
Friday, January 31, 12pm – 8pm
Saturday, February 1, 12pm – 7pm
Sunday, February 2, 12pm – 6pm
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Here:

“Songs of Winter,” 1908-9. Oil on board.
“New Mexico Recollection — Storm,” 1923. Oil on canvas.
“Autumn, Dogtown Common,” 1934. Oil on board.

We are thrilled to share that our beloved colleague and friend Stephen Westfall was recently announced as a recipient of...
01/14/2025

We are thrilled to share that our beloved colleague and friend Stephen Westfall was recently announced as a recipient of the Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award by the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Since 2015, the annual award has recognized artistic excellence by providing resources to mature visual artists with a long history of creative practice. This year’s recipients were selected by Amy Hausmann, Executive Director of Maine Arts Commission; Sanford Wurmfeld, artist, emeritus chairman of the Department of Art at Hunter College; and John Yau, American poet and art critic.

In Westfall’s own words: “It is a deep honor to receive this award which, because it comes from a nomination process, means that my work is recognized in the larger artistic community. Very gratifying, humbling, and encouraging. As a painter of planar abstract paintings, it is especially thrilling that it comes in the name of the Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award.”

Congratulations, Stephen!

New Year’s studio visit with Lois Dodd.The in-progress panel is not finished.  She is waiting for another misty day with...
01/07/2025

New Year’s studio visit with Lois Dodd.

The in-progress panel is not finished. She is waiting for another misty day with similar conditions and light - maybe today’s snow.

Once completed quickly in a few hours and one sitting plein-air, Lois now paints inside, looking in or out, and works on multiple Masonite panels at a time over weeks or more. At 97, she still paints each day.

Happy New Year!  May 2025 be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous for all, and a year of renewed peace. Two Matisse cut-outs fr...
01/01/2025

Happy New Year! May 2025 be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous for all, and a year of renewed peace.

Two Matisse cut-outs from the Heinz Berggruen collection on view now at L’Orangerie.

(A Planar Garden!)

Merry Christmas 🎄 Here:  Neil Welliver, OLD AVALANCHE, 1982, oil on canvas, 96 x 96 inches(detail); additional detail; S...
12/25/2024

Merry Christmas 🎄

Here: Neil Welliver, OLD AVALANCHE, 1982, oil on canvas, 96 x 96 inches(detail); additional detail; STUDY FOR OLD AVALANCHE, 1982, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches (detail); Neil Welliver, Lincolnville, Maine, c. 2000, photo by Lindsey Stewart.

From the entire gallery staff, we wish you a happy and safe holiday season ❄️ ❄️ ❄️The gallery will re-open with regular...
12/23/2024

From the entire gallery staff, we wish you a happy and safe holiday season ❄️ ❄️ ❄️

The gallery will re-open with regular hours on Thursday, January 2.

A PLANAR GARDEN, curated by Stephen WESTFALL, will be extended through Saturday, February 1st.

Wishing our longtime colleague Marie Evans a wonderful, well-deserved retirement! Anyone who’d like to be in touch with Marie, e-mail the gallery at [email protected] and your message will be forwarded.

Here: John, Martin, Jamie, Erica, Emma, Lucy, Priscilla, Phil, and not pictured, Danny, Maria, Marie and Bill.

“How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, ...
12/23/2024

“How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.” —John Marin

Born on this day in 1870, American artist John Marin shaped the trajectory of early American Modernism, influencing many artists with the painterly quality of his artworks, which captured the contours of landscapes, both urban and natural.

After traveling in Europe where he perfected his slightly abstracted watercolor technique, Marin held his first solo exhibition at Alfred Steiglitz’s gallery in Manhattan in 1909. Their association lasted for many decades, shaping Marin’s practice as he lived and worked between New Jersey and the coasts of Maine.

Before his artistic career began, Marin tried to pursue architecture. Pictured here is “New York No.2,” a 1925 work that reveals the artist’s affinity for architecture.
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Here: John Marin, “New York No. 2,” 1925, charcoal and watercolor on paper, 25 1/4 x 20 3/4 inches

Happy Winter Solstice ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ and this shortest day of the year.Let the days now get longer, brighter.Lois Dodd, NIGHT ...
12/22/2024

Happy Winter Solstice ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ and this shortest day of the year.

Let the days now get longer, brighter.

Lois Dodd, NIGHT HOUSE, 1975, oil on linen, 32 x 48 inches.

Patricia Treib’s paintings are composed around sensuous details, absences, and shifts in perspective. While her work dra...
12/20/2024

Patricia Treib’s paintings are composed around sensuous details, absences, and shifts in perspective. While her work draws on far-ranging references—a tabletop torsion pendulum clock, a torso glimpsed in a 16th c. Greek icon painting—Treib's true subject is the process of looking, through which she discovers new relationships while dismantling what is merely recognizable.

As a painter, observer, choreographer, and documenter of often overlooked details and moments in time, Treib’s works begin as small oil on paper compositions that are meditations on a particular visual source—two and three dimensional objects arranged in restrained still lifes in her studio. Her works speak to not only the subtle contours of these objects, but also the generative spaces between them. She produces her larger paintings in a single sitting, a performance guided by the script of the smaller piece. Standing over the canvas, which is laid flat on the ground, the movement of her brushstrokes suggests the choreographic element of her process.

Contrasting Treib’s role as recorder of her original source material to that of the camera, Joanna Fiduccia writes: “Her paintings are deliberate where the snapshot is casual, bodily where it is cyclopic, and temporal where it is instantaneous.”

Her 2024 painting “Torque II” is currently on view in our galleries as part of A PLANAR GARDEN, a group exhibition curated by Stephen Westfall, now extended through Saturday, February 1st.

The gallery will close at 5:30pm on Saturday, December 21st for a holiday pause, resuming normal hours on Thursday, January 2nd. Happy holidays, may they be merry and bright. We look forward to welcoming you to the gallery in the new year!
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Here: Patricia Treib, “Torque II,” 2024, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York; Patricia Treib, Red Icon, 2024, oil on canvas, 15.75 x 11.75 in. Courtesy of the artist and Bureau, New York

A PLANAR GARDEN, curated by Stephen Westfall, will be extended through January.  The gallery will be open regular hours ...
12/14/2024

A PLANAR GARDEN, curated by Stephen Westfall, will be extended through January. The gallery will be open regular hours next week through Saturday, the 21st, and then reopen Thursday, January 2nd, after a holiday break.

Westfall writes on his premise for this show:

I’ve long felt that we’ve needed to recalibrate our expectations of planar abstraction to include its potentials for referentiality, memory and play; on short, abundance. This doesn’t have to mean a canvas teeming with incident.

“Planarity” in painting implies areas of color rather than accumulation of marks, after all. But color and shape are referential, as is the object of painting itself. We can recall light and shadow, weather and time of day, when looking at even color filling out a shape. A synesthete might experience flavor, scent and even sound. A concert of flat colored shapes can reference a riot of associations, humidities, memories of rooms, textiles, the silhouettes of flowers and birds, and the trajectories of ships and jets. Even the perpendicular planes of seemingly reductive abstract painting draws us into a dance between distance and proximity. Think of far horizons imbedded in the granular intimacy of an Agnes Martin painting.
. . So, here is a garden of planes showing their plumage, their cleared paths, their intensifications of objecthood, their gestures in space, their areas and edges.

Here: Install views at 25 East 73rd Street NYC 10021

The wonderful activity and warmth of Art | Basel now seem far away after returning to cold and crisp New York City.  A f...
12/10/2024

The wonderful activity and warmth of Art | Basel now seem far away after returning to cold and crisp New York City. A final highlight from our booth is Richard Estes’ classic 1985 VIEW FROM WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE (oil on canvas, 29 x 36 inches).

On this last day of Art Basel Miami Beach thank you to the entire Art | Basel team for such a terrific 2024 fair.  Speci...
12/08/2024

On this last day of Art Basel Miami Beach thank you to the entire Art | Basel team for such a terrific 2024 fair. Special thanks to Director and CEO . So very happy to return to Miami with paintings by the gallery’s core artists and a selection of early American modernism.

Here: Among the stand-outs of our booth, Marsden Hartley’s NEW MEXICO RECOLLECTION - STORM from 1923. Considered by many to be the most powerfully and emotionally charge example from the series, it was created from imagination and memory four years after Hartley left New Mexico and his extended foray there to deliberately paint plein-air an “American” landscape. Long part of the William H. Lane Collection, most of which was donated and became the core of the MFA, Boston’s early 20th century American collection, this painting along with a few others, was kept by Lane and his wife Sandra to enjoy during their lifetime.

Elizabeth Catlett is featured in our Art Basel Miami booth H4 - today, Sunday, is the last day for the fair, which remai...
12/08/2024

Elizabeth Catlett is featured in our Art Basel Miami booth H4 - today, Sunday, is the last day for the fair, which remains open to the public until 6 pm. South Beach Convention Center.
This sculpture embodies Catlett’s interest in the expression of the female form found within the beauty of her material. Catlett first studied wood carving between 1955 and 1959 with sculptor Jose L. Ruiz at La Esmeralda, Mexico City. By 1962, Catlett had her first Mexican solo exhibition at Escuela National de Artes Plasticas, San Carlos, where Catlett became the first woman to teach sculpture in 1959. According to Melanie Herzog in ELIZABETH CATLETT: AN AMERICAN ARTIST IN MEXICO, Catlett describes her work as representations of women, Black women and herself - “I am a Black woman. I use my body in working. When I am bathing or dressing, I see and feel how my body looks and moves. I never do sculpture from a n**e model . . . Mostly I watch woman.”

Born in Washington, D. C., Catlett settled permanently in Mexico in 1946 and for the rest of her life worked to amplify the experiences of Black and Mexican women. Long overlooked, her work is now the subject of full retrospective organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the National Gallery of Art. With over 200 works, the show gives the revolutionary artist her first mainstream public attention.

This 1979 piece FEMALE FIGURE WITH ARMS RAISED (carved wood, 32 1/2” h) was acquired by our owners in the early 1980s in Mexico directly from Catlett by David C. Driskell and has been in one private collection since that time.

Born on this day in 1892, Stuart Davis was a true pioneer of American modernism. Known for his bold use of color, energe...
12/07/2024

Born on this day in 1892, Stuart Davis was a true pioneer of American modernism. Known for his bold use of color, energetic compositions, and incorporation of jazz rhythms into his work, Davis bridged the worlds of fine art and popular culture.

In his "Egg Be**er" series of the late 1920s, Stuart Davis revealed the innovative visual language of sharp geometric line, broad planes of color, and shallow space which would come to define his own distinct American synthetic Cubism. Professor Diane Kelder wrote in 1991:

“The climax of Davis’s efforts to master Cubist structure occurred in 1927—28, when he nailed an electric fan, a rubber glove, and an eggbeater to a table and painted them exclusively. Nearly twenty years later, Davis described his subject as ‘an invented series of planes... They were a bit on the severe side, but the ideas invoked in their construction have continued to serve me. ... My aim was not to establish a self-sufficient system to take the place of the immediate and accidental, but to... strip a subject down to the real physical source of its stimulus... So you may say that everything I have done since is based on the eggbeater idea.’”
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Here: Stuart Davis, Egg Be**er No. 1, 1927. Gouache on board; Stuart Davis, Egg Be**er No. 4, 1928. Gouache on illustration board

Details of four Lois Dodd paintings included in our Art Miami Basel booth H4.BEE APPROACHING TOUCH ME NOTS, 2006oil on l...
12/06/2024

Details of four Lois Dodd paintings included in our Art Miami Basel booth H4.

BEE APPROACHING TOUCH ME NOTS, 2006
oil on linen, 36 x 44 inches.

FORSYTHIA, 1980
oil on panel, 15 1/2 x 13 inches.

THE BROKEN DOOR, BLAISEY’S PLACE, 1999
oil on panel, 17 3/4 x 12 inches.

ATTIC STAIRCASE AND SUNLIGHT, 1987 - 88
oil on linen, 60 x 38 inches.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 on view this week.
12/04/2024

Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 on view this week.

Stuart Davis STUDY FOR FLYING CARPET from 1942, a gouache inspired by Davis’s first travel in an airplane that year.  In...
12/04/2024

Stuart Davis STUDY FOR FLYING CARPET from 1942, a gouache inspired by Davis’s first travel in an airplane that year. In the early 1920s Davis travelled cross country to New Mexico in a Model T Ford, and then in the early 40s by plane. This design was later woven as a wool rug, which is still in production.

From the collection of the artist’s family and included this week in our booth at Art Basel Miami Beach.

Featuring a gorgeous 1945 painting by Milton Avery - MILLINER - in our Art Basel Miami booth this week..Very happy to re...
12/02/2024

Featuring a gorgeous 1945 painting by Milton Avery - MILLINER - in our Art Basel Miami booth this week..

Very happy to return to South Beach and the most dynamic and wide ranging fair.

Please visit us in Booth H4.

And please contact us - DM us here or e-mail to [email protected] - for details about works on view from our core program of first generation American modernism and contemporary artist including Pat Adams, Brett Bigbee, Lois Dodd, Joan Snyder and Tom Uttech, all of whose work has been featured in recent gallery shows.

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