Los Angeles Art Show, 2011

The LA Art Show ended yesterday. The fair and the weather were beautiful. There was a giant sign on the Convention Center and it was 70-ish, sunny, calm – just terrific.

     
      We showed paintings from Hugh Mesibov’s surrealist period, The Wartime Shipyard, 1942-45, and works by Missourians-turned-Californians, Dorothy Browdy Kushner and Fred Shane. The  California theme was continued by natives Fred Becker, Claire Mahl Moore, Pele deLappe, and Ansei Uchima.

      
      Not to be out-done, New York City was represented by Will Barnet, Peggy Bacon, James Daugherty, Peter Grippe, Bernard Rosenquit, Anne Ryan, Louis Schanker, and Harry Sternberg.

James Daugherty, New York from Fort Lee, 1921

Report from Miami

Susan Teller Gallery at Art Miami, A-85

Hugh Mesibov, Dialogue in Armor, 1944

We are still in Florida but heading back to NYC tomorrow. The fairs seemed like a success all around. Art Miami was great with an attendance of more than 40,000. Visitors seemed happy to be there and were very complimentary of the show.  In particular we had interest in works by Hugh Mesibov, Fred Shane, and Lynd Ward.

It’s just beautiful here today although with a projected high in the 60s it isn’t beach weather.

Art Miami, Booth A-85

Fred Shane, Portrait of Man in Orange Shirt, 1940.

Art Miami is in full swing. At our booth, A 85 in the north tent, Hugh Mesibov’s Siege (Leningrad), 1944, and Fred Shane’s Portrait of Man with Orange Shirt, 1940, are highlights.  The New York section features James Daugherty, Riva Helfond, Anne Ryan, and Louis Schanker.  Lynd Ward wood engravings, Peggy Bacon prints and drawings, and modernist works by Fannie Hillsmith, Peter Grippe, and Bernard Rosenquit, round out the collection. 

The Big Storm of '10 came through yesterday afternoon and rattled the tent; no rain to speak of but the temperature dropped into the 60s. Today is just beautiful.

Peter Grippe: Prints and Drawings

 







The City, 1934, drawing, 14x12 inches


Grippe (1912-2002) was born in Buffalo, NY. He studied at the Albright-Knox Art School and the Art Institute of Buffalo. A member of the American Abstract Artists group, in the early 1940s he studied with Stanley William Hayter at the New York intaglio printmaking workshop, Atelier 17; he later served as director. In the summer of 1948 he taught sculpture at Black Mountain College and later taught at the Pratt Institute and Smith College. He was the first professor of sculpture and graphics at Brandeis University. In 2010 the Allentown Art Museum showed: Peter Grippe: A Personal Vocabulary. His work is in permanent collections throughout the country.

through November 27, 2010

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 AM to  5 PM

 

LYND WARD, New Edition of Woodcut Novels

 Lynd Ward, Sanctuary, 1939, wood engraving, 7 x 5 inches

    Edited by Art Spiegelman, LYND WARD, SIX NOVELS IN WOODCUTS, was released by The Library of America on October 14.  This handsome publication features, in additional to all the prints for the Novels (dating from 1929 to 1937), nine essays by Ward, and an appreciation by Spiegelman, author of Maus.

The Susan Teller Gallery represents the work of Lynd Ward. 
 

FRED SHANE, Paintings, 1928-1990

Fred Shane

Climax, Colorado, 1943-44 



On view:
October 1 through 30, 2010

Fred Shane (1906-1990) was a regionalist, surrealist, muralist, and long-time teacher at the University of Missouri. Widely admired for early down-to-earth portraits of his all too human mid-western neighbors, his landscapes of Colorado and California ranged from awe-inspiring to affectionate views of tourist foibles. His surrealist pieces are among the strongest produced in post-war America. 

HELLUVA TOWN through Thursday, August 19

Bernard Rosenquit, Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, 1960

Great city bridges and harbor scenes by Jolan Bettelheim, James Daughtery, Richard Haas, Jack Henderson, Bernard Rosenquit, Anne Ryan, Bernard Sanders, Ben Shahn.

Central Park, Washington Square, and Union Square, by Isabel Bishop, Minna Citron, Howard Daum, Betty Waldo Parish, James Penney

City children by Will Barnet, Pele deLappe, Blanche Grambs, Riva Helfond

Times Square and city views by Don Freeman, Fannie Hillsmith, Hugh Mesibov, Clare Romano, Louis Schanker, Anton Schutz, Fred Shane, Lynd Ward.