San Diego's HARRY STERNBERG SHOW EXTENDED

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East Coast, West Coast, and In-Between:

Harry Sternberg and America

San Diego Museum of Art
Balboa Park, San Diego

Extended, now closing May 31.

Harry Sternberg, Economic Insecurity, 1941, 58 x 23

Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists, 1934-2000

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On Thursday, April 20^th, the exhibition Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists, 1934-2000, opened at the Grey Art Gallery of NYU. The show, and the catalogue, that also has the AAA print list, are so welcome! Our thanks to Gail Windisch who started the ball rolling and who not only created the list of the AAA prints (begun by Meg Hausberg at AAA in the 1970s), but also researched and explained the complicated publishing, commissions, gallery sales-triangle that worked so well in the late 1930s and 1940s.

Liz Seaton, of the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Jane Myers, formerly of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, and Gail Windisch, are the curators of the exhibition, which will run through July 9, 2016.

The exhibition focuses on the publishing side of the gallery and includes prints made into the 1970s, was well as examples of holiday cards, Stonelain Ceramics, and Riverdale Fabrics, created by AAA artists in the 1950s. (Maybe there was even wallpaper, but that didn’t make it into the show.)

Wall labels and examples of archival brochures address much of the history of the gallery, from its early days with founder Reeve Lewenthal, through his successor – my old boss, Sylvan Cole, Jr., who stayed through 1983.

 

Peggy Bacon, The Spirit of Rain, 1941, drypoint

Included are works by Peggy Bacon, Thomas Hart Benton, Douglas Gorsline, Joe Jones, Harry Sternberg, Georges Schreiber (not only by his 250 edition lithograph, From Arkansas, 1941, but also a watercolor, and amazing, a totally abstract patterned fabric), and many, many more artists. The catalogue and exhibition were about fifteen years in coming and they are both terrific.

#peggybacon #ThomasHartBenton, #douglasgorsline, #joejones  #georgesschreiber  #harrysternberg #AssociatedAmericanArtists #AAA

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MoMA’s JACKSON POLLOCK Show Closing Tomorrow

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In a season of terrific exhibitions, the Pollock show at the Museum of Modern Art was a knockout. Drawn from their own collection, it featured paintings and works on paper by one of the most important and influential American artists of the twentieth century. Today and tomorrow are the very last days to see Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934-1954.

Jackson Pollock, Mexican Bandits, 1939

Showing here is our Pollock Greeting Card, a rare humorous drawing, Mexican Bandits, 1939.    

O’Connor/Thaw Volume 4, Number 945

Watercolor, crayon, and ink, on sheet 5 x 12 inches.

There is a preliminary sketch for this subject on the back of one of the “psychoanalytic drawings” in the raisonné, number 3:520.

#JacksonPollock  #Pollock

    

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

Name five women artists? How can we name just five? In a fast overview there are (in alphabetical order) Peggy Bacon, Isabel Bishop, Elizabeth Catlett, Minna Citron, Dorothy Dehner, Sue Fuller, Katharine Gallagher, Blanche Grambs, Riva Helfond, Fannie Hillsmith, Dorothy Browdy Kushner, Alice Trumbull Mason, Claire Mahl Moore, Jean Morrison Becker, Betty Waldo Parish, Doris Rosenthal, Anne Ryan, Katherine Schmidt, Judith Shahn, Mary Sinclair, Helen A. Strojny, and Marguerite Zorach.

So we’ve limited ourselves to showing work by five women artists:

 

Bernarda Bryson Shahn

Unemployed Madonna, 1929, lithograph

Sue Fuller

Boogie Woogie, 1946, gouache

Fannie Hillsmith

The Attic (also titled Dark Interior), 1952

Mixed media on canvas

Anne Ryan

The Wine Glass, 1945, black line woodcut

Peggy Bacon

All Alone, 1951, etching

This weekend !!! McNAY ART FAIR March 5 and 6

TWENTIETH ANNUAL McNAY ART FAIR, 2016

  

McNAY ART MUSEUM, LEEPER AUDITORIUM

6000 NORTH NEW BRAUNFELS

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

HOURS:

SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 10 AM TO 5 PM

SUNDAY, MARCH 5, NOON TO 5 PM

Will Barnet, The New Toy (Go-Go), 1947

AMERICAN MODERNISM:

WILL BARNET, LOU BARLOW, WILLIAM BAZIOTES, MARY LIGHTFOOT, ANNE RYAN,

LOUIS SCHANKER, MARK TOBEY, ANSEI UCHIMA, as well as JACKSON POLLOCK’s

MEXICAN BANDITS, 1939, a rare humorous drawing for the artist.

Jackson Pollock, Mexican Bandits, 1939

ATELIER 17, NEW YORK:

DOROTHY DEHNER, SUE FULLER, PETER GRIPPE, STANLEY WILLIAM HAYTER,

ALICE TRUMBULL MASON, and HOWARD DAUM, three state of COMBAT, 1947.

For institutional acquisition. The final version is a tour de force of Atelier 17 techniques,
a classic Indian Space image, a reflection of Hayter’s friendship with Pablo Picasso and

Daum’s admiration for Picasso’s Guernica then under the protection of the Museum of

Modern Art, and, as the title reminds us, a Post-World-War II image.

 

Howard Daum, Combat, 1947, final state.

CLASSIC URBAN SCENE WORKS BY:

PEGGY BACON, ISABEL BISHOP, MINNA CITRON, VICTOR DeWILDE,

MICHAEL J. GALLAGHER, JAMES PENNEY, ANGELO PINTO, BEN SHAHN,

and HARRY STERNBERG.

Link to Preview Page:

http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=mcnay16

Admittance to the fair is free with Museum Admission.

Happy to say we’ve made every fair -- the only one of it’s kind in the southwest.

It’s always a lovely event so even if it’s a trip, keep in mind that entire museum

is terrific and that the weather is beautiful there this time of year.

Our thanks to everyone at the McNay who has made this fair such a

pleasure all these years!

McNay Art Fair

Getting ready for the McNay Art Museum Fair, March 5 and 6, 2016. We're still packing up so let us know if there are special requests.

Link for preview:
http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl…

Howard Daum, Face and Hand, 1946, 4 x 6 inches

CALIFORNIA REVIEW, January 2016

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Los Angeles in January was as terrific as ever – OK a little cool and some much-needed rain – but still GREAT. At LACMA it was just lovely to see the Frank Gehry show (there’s never enough time!) and find the William Baziotes painting, Congo, 1954. 

William Baziotes, Congo, 1954

First there was the Los Angeles Fine Print Fair at Bonhams on Sunset Boulevard and then the Los Angeles Art Show at the Convention Center.

Fortunately we were able to start hanging at Bonhams on Thursday because we had much too much to install if everything had to be done on Friday, the day of the reception. The dark walls made everything look different I think. In particular colors looked brighter against the charcoal gray and subtleties of the Atelier 17 intaglio techniques showed up very well. The Howard Daum three-state set of Combat, 1947, was well received as were the Will Barnets, Peter Grippes, and Anne Ryans.

Peter Grippe, Battle of the Centaurs, 1953

At the Convention Center of course the Baziotes surrealist wall, this time with a drawing by his pal Jackson Pollock, Mexican Bandits, 1939, was a more or less constant draw. Completely on the other side of the coin (and booth), the Peggy Bacons were popular. The main painting wall featured, from left to right, Howard Daum, Anne Ryan, Mary Sinclair, Hugh Mesibov, native Californian Claire Mahl Moore with Big Sur, 1960, a Baziotes pictograph painting, Young Clown, 1943, and Bernard Rosenquit.

#LACMA, #LAFinePrintFair, #LAArtShow, #Atelier17, #Surrealism, #WilliamBaziotes, #HowardDaum, #WillBarnet, #PeterGrippe, #AnneRyan, #JacksonPollock, #PeggyBacon, #AnneRyan, #MarySinclair, #HughMesibov, #ClaireMahlMoore, #BernardRosenquit.