Wednesday, February 8, 2012

PALM SPRINGS FINE ART FAIR


February 17 through 19, 2012
Palm Springs Convention Center
Inaugural Year of the Fair and our first trip to Palm Springs.

THEODORE HAUPT, THE THREE GRACES, 1941

It’s Modernism Week in Palm Springs: THEODORE HAUPT'S Acrobats, 1939, and Three Graces, 1941, HUGH MESIBOV'S Mechanical Dancers, 1943, and ANNE RYAN'S Collage, 1951, will all be on view. 

We're featuring Industrial Realism with FRED SHANE'S monumental painting Clam Shell Dredge, 1952, JUDITH SHAHN’S Plimsoll Line, 1949, and CHARLES KELLER'S Saturday Siesta, 1946. PEGGY BACON & HER CIRCLE show up as well with drawings and prints by ISABEL BISHOP, REGINALD MARSH, and MARGUERITE ZORACH.   

Also on hand will be works by WILL BARNET, HOWARD DAUM, DOROTHY DEHNER, PETER GRIPPE, FANNIE HILLSMITH, BERNARD ROSENQUIT, and LOUIS SCHANKER.
FRED SHANE, CLAM SHELL DREDGE, 1952

The big news is that curator Peter Frank selected paintings by DOROTHY BROWDY KUSHNER and FRED SHANE for the exhibition The Big Picture, on view at the Fair. Sub-titled Paintings from Southern California, 1960-1980, The Big Pictures is designed to celebrate the development of the LA art scene, and is part of the multi-venued extravaganza, Pacific Standard Time.