BACK FROM MIAMI !!!

Another great INK Miami fair has come and gone! And this year we really did have exceptionally good weather – with the added bonus that it was a little too cool for the beach.

This year we were in Room 161 on the south side of the hotel, across the water feature from our previous room. Each of those suites is just slightly different from its neighbor so there some pre-fair anxiety as to fitting everything, but it worked out well and some of the small differences were even improvements, such as better lighting in the more interior room and easier-to-use shades. Some dealers had new furniture but fortunately we had the standard couch and always-admired-leopard-print chair that steals every shot it’s in.

 

Our main room with the leopard-print chair and Art Students League wall.

Our collection divided into three concentrations: The Art Students League (west) wall with work by WILL BARNET, THOMAS HART BENTON, ISABEL BISHOP, RIVA HELFOND, CLAIRE MAHL MOORE, and BEN SHAHN; the east wall with American Modernist drawings and prints by JOSEF ALBERS, WILLIAM BAZIOTES, HUGH MESIBOV, LOUIS SCHANKER and KARL SCHRAG; and the interior room (actually the bedroom of the apartment with the beds out) Atelier 17 intaglios by HOWARD DAUM, PETER GRIPPE, FANNIE HILLSMITH, and ANNE RYAN. 

 

Our 'Dance' Alcover with Curlee Raven Holton at left and William E. Smith at right.

In the dinette there were a drawing by CURLEE RAVEN HOLTON and a painting by WILLIAM E. SMITH – both dance subjects by African-American artists. And best of all, HOLTON visited the fair and saw the drawing! It was a busy moment and we didn’t get to talk but I was so glad to re-new a very old acquaintance. There was a ‘City’ group with works by ANGELO PINTO, RUDOLPH RUZICKA and ANTHONY VELONIS (our ‘I Spy’ selection), and two NYC Central Park Zoo scenes by PEGGY BACON and VIRGINIA BILL.

Rudolph Ruzicka, Brooklyn Bridge, 1915

The inventory is now back at our Mana Jersey City office. It was lovely while it lasted!

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THE MASTERS: THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE, Last Two Days

LAST TWO DAYS !!!

Today, and tomorrow, December 1, 2018, are the last two days of the three-part extravaganza: The Masters: The Art Students League, Teachers and Their Students. It takes place at three New York City locations: The League, Gallery 511, and Hirschl & Adler.

Works by Peggy Bacon, Will Barnet, Thomas Hart Benton, Isabel Bishop, Dorothy Dehner, Ben Shahn, Harry Sternberg, and so many others are included. We were pleased to be able to play a small part.

 

Peggy Bacon, The Swiss Restaurant, 1918, drypoint

Bacon’s Swiss Restaurant, 1918, depicts a popular ‘hangout’ near the League. Judging by the coats and hats, it was a cold day, just a hundred years ago.

#peggybacon #theLeague #artstudentsleague #asl #drypoint #masters

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NEW YORK FINE ART PRINT FAIR

 

NEW YORK FINE ART PRINT FAIR

Booth 206

The River Pavilion, The Jacob K. Javits Center

11^th Avenue at 35^th Street, NYC

Anne Ryan, Capriccioso, 1945

 

Preview:

Wednesday, October 24      6:30 to 9 PM

Public Hours:

Thursday, October 25           Noon to 8 PM

Friday, October 26               Noon to 8 PM

Saturday, October 27           Noon to 8 PM   

Sunday, October 28             Noon to 6 PM 

We will be featuring:

American Modernism: Works by Josef Albers, William Baziotes, Franz Kline, Dorothy Browdy Kushner, Louis Lozowick, Hugh Mesibov, Anne Ryan, Louis Schanker, and Ansei Uchima.

The Art Students League: Prints by Will Barnet, Thomas Hart Benton, Isabel Bishop, Pele de Lappe, Blanche Grambs, Riva Helfond, Charles Keller, Reginald Marsh, Claire Mahl Moore, and Harry Sternberg.

Atelier 17: Intaglios by Sue Fuller, Fred Becker, Howard Daum, Dorothy Dehner, Werner Drewes, Peter Grippe, Stanley William Hayter, Fannie Hillsmith, Kett, Armin Landeck, Alice Trumbull Mason, Bernard Rosenquit, and Karl Schrag.

The City: Drypoints by Peggy Bacon, woodcuts by Virginia Bill, Michael J. Gallagher, Betty Waldo Parish and Angelo Pinto, serigraphs by Anthony Velonis.

BEN SHAHN born on this day in 1898

Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was born on September 12.


Below is his Head of a Welder from 1940. It is a gouache on paper cut to isolate the head. No doubt it was used to position the head properly in the making of a mural or large painting.

#benshahn #shahn #mural #newdealera
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First Day of ART PROCESSES, DRAWINGS AND MORE

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Art Processes: Drawings and More, with works by ABE BLASHKO, FANNIE HILLSMITH, LOUIS SCHANKER, and BEN SHAHN opens today, August 30, 2018, at the Baum Gallery, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR.

The show, curated by Brian Young, runs through October 11.

This is the link:

http://uca.edu/art/baum/exhibitions/

 

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Louis Schanker, Abstraction #31, 1944

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FANNIE HILLSMITH: Ceramics

Ceramics by Fannie Hillsmith now on view at the Gallery site. This is the link:

http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=ceramics_f

 

Fannie Hillsmith, The Couch, 2001, ceramic

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National Senior Citzens Day

August 21 is National Senior Citizens Day.

Charles Keller, Saturday Siesta (Clayton, North Carolina), 1946

We honor our Seniors for their wisdom, their leadership, and their contributions.

#seniorcitizen #charleskeller, #claytonnc

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World Elephant Day

August 12, 2018, is World Elephant Day

It is dedicated to the preservation and protection of the world’s elephants.

 

George Biddle, Three Elephants, 1951

This is the link to our recently introduced virtual exhibition, ANIMALS SMALL AND LARGE:

http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=animals

#elephant #elephants #georgebiddle #tusk

ANIMALS SMALL AND LARGE

New Virtual Exhibition:

ANIMALS SMALL AND LARGE

With everything from flies to elephants, this list of paintings, drawings, and prints, dates from Peggy Bacon's studies of the early part of the twentieth century to Hugh Mesibov's Koi Pond of 2000. These are mostly pleasant subjects; there are a few modernist images (Mesibov's Humming Bird, William Baziotes' Fish) but not too many.

 

Dorothy Browdy Kushner, Roosters, 1950

A few additional artists are: Will Barnet, Romare Bearden, Alfred Bendiner, Thomas Hart Benton, George Biddle, Howard Daum, Sue Fuller, Michael J. Gallagher, Blanche Grambs, Dorothy Browdy Kushner, Claire Mahl Moore, Bernard Rosenquit, Anne Ryan, Louis Schanker, Stow Wengenroth, and Harry Wickey.

Of course, many, many of the works are of cats -- birds and horses probably tie for second. There are far fewer dogs than might be expected, but they come ahead of the cats -- cats are at the 'bottom' of the list although maybe they are first in our hearts.

This is the link:

http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=animals

WillBarnet, RomareBearden, AlfredBendiner, ThomasHartBenton, GeorgeBiddle, HowardDaum, SueFuller, MichaelJGallagher, BlancheGrambs, BernardRosenquit, AnneRyan, LouisSchanker, StowWengenroth, HarryWickey, HughMesibov, PeggyBacon, WilliamBaziotes

LOUIS SCHANKER, Last Day, Saturday, July 28, 2018

Tomorrow, Saturday, July 28, is the last day of Louis Schanker: The WPA Years show at the Pollock-Krasner House, East Hampton NY.

Louis Schanker, Dictator's Dream, 1937 (1970s printing)

Link to our recently revised Schanker page:

http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=schanker

Link the Pollock-Krasner House:

http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/pkhouse/exhibitions.php

Link to an excellent review in the East Hampton Star:

http://mobile.easthamptonstar.com/Arts/2018724/-Intimate-View-Rhythmic-Painter

HUGH MESIBOV IN PHILADELPHIA

A work by HUGH MESIBOV from the permanent collection is currently on view in Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of Arts Infinite Spaces exhibition through September 9, 2018. 

Below is one of my favorites in the Gallery. It's on our new listing, American Paintings http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=paintings.

HUGH MESIBOV, Landscape, South West, 1954, oil on canvas, 18 x 22 inches

LOUIS SCHANKER: THE WPA YEARS at the Pollock-Krasner House

This summer, though July 28, 2018, the exhibition LOUIS SCHANKER: The WPA Years, is on view at the Pollock-Krasner House, East Hampton, NY. A trip to the Pollock-Krasner House is always a good idea, but this is also a wonderful opportunity to see extremely scarce early work on paper from the artist's estate.

 

Louis Schanker, Jai Alai, 1939, woodcut

To celebrate this event we added prints, drawings, and monotypes to the artist’s page.

Link to the Gallery page for Louis Schanker:

http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=schanker

Link to the Pollock-Krasner House site:

https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/pkhouse/index.php

#louisschanker #pollock-krasnerhouse #WPA

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Modern Times: American Art 1910-1950

Philadelphia Museum of Art

On view through September 3, 2018

It was so nice to go to an exhibition in the middle of its run and not the last hours, and it was so nice that it was the fabulous Modern Times show in Philadelphia curated by Jessica Todd Smith.

 

George Biddle, Whoopee at Sloppy Jo's, 1933

This is a huge area for one exhibition ranging from the Ashcan School, the earliest days of Modernism, the Jazz Age, the urban scene of the New Deal era, right up to the beginnings of Abstract Expressionism. Drawn from the Museum’s collection and promised gifts, the show features Philadelphia’s role in the art of this period and benefits from the many women and African-American artists included, with both well known and totally new (to me at least) pieces: paintings, drawings, lots of wonderful prints that add enormously to the show, photographs, furniture, and costumes.

Ben Shahn, Nearly Everyone Reads the Bulletin, 1946

The exhibition is organized thematically. In ‘Modern Life’ there were beach scenes and actual 1920s bathing suits, George Biddle’s Whoopee at Sloppy Jo’s, from 1933 – the year Prohibition ended, and Ben Shahn’s Nearly Everyone Reads the Bulletin, 1946. (The Bulletin was a Philadelphia newspaper but the composition is based on a scene Shahn photographed in NY’s Washington Square Park.) The wonderful pair, Arthur B. Davies’ Daphnes of the Ravine, 1922, and Max Weber’s Group of Figures, 1911, left, as well as Marguerite Zorach’s Girl and Cat, 1919, were in ‘The Animated Figure’ section.

 

Arthur B. Davies, Daphnes of the Ravine, 1922, and Max Weber, Group of Figures, 1911.

Links to gallery pages for Thomas, Hart Benton, George Biddle, Arthur B. Davies, Ben Shahn, Max Weber, and Marguerite Zorach.

http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=benton

http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=biddle

http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=davies

http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=shahn_ben

http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=weber

http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=zorach

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AFTER PAUL KLEE

This collection is inspired by the recent exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, Ten Americans: After Paul Klee. In particular work by William Baziotes figured prominently and was the starting point for our own list: Klee, Baziotes, Howard Daum, Dorothy Dehner, Peter Grippe, Stanley William Hayter, Fannie Hillsmith, Hugh Mesibov, Anne Ryan, and Mark Tobey.

Peter Grippe, The City, 13th Street, Nabisco Crackers(NYC), 1943

The Phillips show explored key aspects of Klee’s oeuvre that drew American artists working in abstraction: interest in the art of indigenous cultures, the power of symbolic language, and the tapping into the unconscious.

An exhibition of Klee's work at the Museum of Modern Art in 1930 assured that his work was known to the American audience.

Work by Baziotes was also shown in a similar context in From Motherwell to Hofmann: The Samuel Kootz Gallery, 1945-1966, at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, NY.

This is the link to the site:

http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=klee

PhillipsCollection, PaulKlee, Klee, Baziotes, Daum, Dehner, Grippe, Hayter, Hillsmith, Mesibov, AnneRyan, MarkTobey, SamuelKootz

#PhillipsCollection #PaulKlee #Klee #Baziotes #Daum #Dehner #Grippe #Hayter #Hillsmith #Mesibov #AnneRyan  #MarkTobey #SamuelKootz

Report from St. Louis

This weekend we are at the University of Missouri at the 12^th Annual St. Louis Fine Print, Rare Book & Paper Arts Fair. It runs through Sunday, May 6, and is presented by the St. Louis Mercantile Library. 

Susan Teller Gallery's Booth at St. Louis Fair

There are also fabulous exhibitions at the Library including the extensive Headlines of History show that traces the history of the printed news in Missouri as well as featuring headlines that reflect historic events of the last two centuries including the sinking of the Titanic and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 

Geese guarding the Print Fair Sign

Yet another exhibition is the Celebration of the Gutenberg Acquisition. The Library recently acquired two leaves for the Gutenberg Bible and with loans from other libraries and museums in St. Louis mounted an exhibition reflecting the impact of this publication on the world at large.

ART ON PAPER, 2018

Virginia Bill, Seals in Central Park (NYC), about 1940

We’re back from San Antonio and now set up at ART ON PAPER -- the show runs though Sunday. It’s at Pier 36 at 299 South Street and the site and the building are terrific.

We are featuring:

• Atelier 17: Drawings and intaglios by Stanley William Hayter, as well as those of colleagues, Howard Daum, Sue Fuller, Fannie Hillsmith, Franz Kline, and Peter Grippe.

• American Surrealism: Unique works on paper by William Baziotes and Hugh Mesibov.

• Collection Highlights: Extremely scarce woodcuts by Virginia Bill (white-line), Anne Ryan (black-line) and Ansei Uchima, a collection of drawings by Peter Grippe, and drypoints by Peggy Bacon.

 #Artonpaper #pier36 #collectprints #IFPDA #Mesibov #Baziotes #Atelier17 #Surrealism #PeggyBacon #AnseiUchima #PeterGrippe #FranzKline #SWHayter