Vida Americana: Mexican/American Connections

The Vida Americana Show at the Whitney Museum of American Art (on view through January 31, 2021), features three artists we represent: Ben Shahn, Mitchell Siporin, and Harry Sternberg. In addition we're showing work by artists who are Mexican, Francisco Mora and Francisco Toledo, artists who traveled to Mexico or even, as in the case of Doris Rosenthal, established residences there, as well as work that shows the impact of this powerful moment.

 

                                  Judith Shahn, Bus Parking Lot, Mexico City, 1950

This is the link for the Gallery's Mexican/American Connections page:

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

 

Vida Americana: Mural Studies

 The Vida Americana show at the Whitney Museum of Art inspired us to re-visit our own collection of American mural studies. They range from the Samuel Greeenburg 1940s rural scene at 6 x 8 to the 1940 Hugh Mesibov, Life of a Miner, at 63 inches. Some are early suggestions such as Louis Schanker's drawings for the World's Fair Mural, 1939, while others like Mordi Gassner's Coca Cola, a private submission of 1932, are finished in fine detail.

 

 

                            Harry Sternberg, Detail, Steel, 1937 

 

 

Link for the Gallery's Mural Studies page:

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

 

Vida Americana: Racial Strife.

Please note that these images are disturbing.

The horrific phenomenon of lynching runs through the Vida Americana Show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. 

Our works were acquired over several decades. The artists range from the African-American New Yorker Vernon Poindexter and the Massachusetts-based Italian-American Umberto Romano, to the Cleveland-born Marion Campbell Kronfeld, who worked in Los Angeles, and Michael J. Gallagher, from the Pennsylvania coal fields.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marian Campbell Kronfeld, Detail: Pieta, about 1940

 

                               

 

This is the link to our Vida Americana: Racial Strife page:

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