December 29, 2017,
would have been Hugh Mesibov’s 101st birthday.
Hugh Mesibov, Three Mechanical Figures, 1944
His work is currently
on view at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey, in Serigraphy: The Rise of Screenprinting in America. In 2008 and 09
work by Mesibov was included in the landmark exhibition, The American Scene, at
the British Museum. In 2012 it was shown in America @ Work, at the Lyman Allyn
Art Museum, Connecticut College, New London, and in 2015, in WPA*Jobs, at the
Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut. The one-artist
exhibition, Hugh Mesibov, The Wartime Shipyard, Surrealist Works of 1942/45,
Paintings and Drawings, was at the Susan Teller Gallery in 2010.
Recently the family
released several unique pieces from the 1930s and 40s as well as a few
extremely scarce prints from that period. Many have been added to the Gallery’s
website. This is a link to the artist’s page:
The Susan Teller Gallery began in 1988. In March, 2015, we made the move to private dealership.
The focus of the gallery is American paintings, prints, and unique works on paper, of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, including the New Deal-WPA Era, Urban and Industrial Realism, Modernism, and Surrealism.