Innovation and Abstraction now at the Zimmerly

Innovation and Abstraction: Women Artists and Atelier 17 opened at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, on January 17th and is on view through May 31, 2017.

The Anne Ryan, Collage, 1951, was added to the show for the Zimmerly venue.

Anne Ryan, Collage, 1951

The curator, Dr. Christina Weyl, selected eight artists to feature from the more than ninety women who worked at the New York facility between 1940 and 1955. For each she selected intaglio prints indicative of their Atelier experience as well as an additional piece in another medium: paintings for MINNA CITRON and ALICE TRUMBULL MASON, string construction for SUE FULLER, sculptures for WORDEN DAY and DOROTHY DEHNER, and woodcut and collage for ANNE RYAN. Works by Louise Bourgeois and Louise Nevelson are also included.

Link to Weyl’s essay and checklist;

http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/pkhouse/atelier17-ecatalog.pdf

STG listing for Women of Atelier 17

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

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INNOVATIONANDABSTRACTION, WOMENARTISTS, MINNACITRON, WORDENDAY, DOROTHYDEHNER, SUEFULLER, ALICETRUMBULLMASON, ANNERYAN, ATELIER17, IFPDAFAIR, STANLEYWILLIAMHAYTER

EXTENDED: Hugh Mesibov's Book of Job.

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EXTENDED, Out of the Whirlwind: Hugh Mesibov's Book of Job.

Originally scheduled to close  

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This mural was commissioned in 1969 and completed and installed in 1972 at the Temple Beth El in Spring Valley, Rockland County, New York.

Mesibov was a modernist but his goal was to illustrate the biblical narrative in a figurative format. The result is a highly expressive, even baroque exploration of the suffering and the redemption of Job.

In 2016 the synagogue donated this monumental painting to the Yeshiva University Museum, 15 West 16^th Street, NY, NY. It is on view in the Popper Gallery through March 12, 2017, and not to be missed.

HughMesibov, bookofjob, bookofjobmural, TempleBethEl, YeshivaUniversityMuseum

CELEBRATING THE NEW SECOND AVENUE SUBWAY

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Ninety years after Harry Sternberg’s etching Subway Construction, 1927, the three new stations of New York City’s Second Avenue Subway opened to the public on January 1, 2017.

 

Harry Sternberg, Subway Construction (NYC), 1927

Bravo to the MTA for meeting the deadline. Its most northern stop, the 96^th Street Station, is the turn-around point for the Q train.

 

Abe Blashko, Subway Combo (Union Square, NYC), 2006

The Abe Blashko drawing of the musicians at the Union Square Station always makes me wonder if that’s supposed to be me in the blue outfit. He knew waiting for a train with those guys would make me crazy.

 

Louis Lozowick, Subway Station (NYC), 1936

HarrySternberg, SecondAvenueSubway, Subway, MTA, QTrain, AbeBlashko, NYC, LouisLozowick, UnionSquare

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LAST DAY • FIRST DAY

LAST DAY • FIRST DAY

January 1, 2017

Today is the last day of Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957, at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH. Works by JOSEF ALBERS, PETER GRIPPE, FANNIE HILLSMITH, FRANZ KLINE, and BEN SHAHN, are in the show.

From 70 years ago, this is Grippe’s Negative/Positive, 1947

Peter Grippe, Negative/Positive, 1947

And of course it’s also the first day of 2017.

Here’s Stanley William Hayter’s combination Holiday Card and Birth Announcement, Augy’s Footprint, 1940.

Stanley William Hayter, Augy's Footprint, 1940

Best wishes for the New Year to all.

NewYear, LeapBeforeYouLook, BlackMountain, Wexner, JOSEFALBERS, PETERGRIPPE, FANNIEHILLSMITH, FRANZKLINE, BENSHAHN, STANLEYWILLIAMHAYTER

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80th Anniversary of Strike at General Motors Plant, Flint, Michigan

Today, December 30, is the 80th anniversary of the start of the strike at the General Motors Fisher Body Plant, Flint, Michigan.

The exhibition of prints and drawings, Work on Paper, on view through January 29, 2017, was organized by Tracee Glab, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, in recognition of the 80^th anniversary of the forty-four-day strike at the General Motors Plant that began on December 30, 1936.

Lynd Ward, From Wild Pilgrimage, 1932

Based on similar strikes in Europe, this was one of the nation’s first sit-down strikes. It was strategically important because that facility contained one of only two “body dies” that GM used for almost all of its 1937 models, of which 50,000 were produced in December and 125 in February. The management charged the workers with trespassing, shut off the heat, and tried to curtail access to food. However there was no use of the National Guard because Governor Frank Murphy believed that would favor one side over another in a legal dispute and also would lead to extensive bloodshed. After about six weeks, when General Motors agreed to recognize the United Auto Workers, the laborers not only received a 5% raise, but the right to speak in the lunchroom.

Link to the Flint Institute of Arts Show

http://www.flintarts.org/exhibitions/current/workonpaper.html

Flint, FlintInstituteofArts, TraceeGlab, GeneralMotors, strike, sit-downstrike,

LyndWard, Wildpilgrimage

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The Art of the Card, Holiday Designs by Artists

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Works by Dorothy Dehner, Sue Fuller, Wanda Gág, Stanley William Hayter, Fannie Hillsmith, Alicia Legg, and Betty Waldo Parish, are on view in The Art of the Card, Holiday Designs by Artists, at the Allentown Art Museum, through February 5, 2017. It’s a wonderful show.

In a exhibition heavy on Atelier 17 inspired intaglios (Hayter was a strong advocate of this tradition) the Hillsmiths are downright delightful!

Fannie Hillsmith, Blue Ornament, 1965

There are several Parishes in the show, but not this one:

Betty Waldo Parish, Washington Square, NYC, 1933

Dorothy Dehner, Sue Fuller, Wanda Gág, Stanley William Hayter, Fannie Hillsmith, Alicia Legg, Betty Waldo Parish

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Grace Martin Taylor (Frame) Exhibition -- Last Few Days

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Nearly missed it!

The exhibition, Studio Window: The Prints of Grace Martin Taylor, closes on Thursday, December 15. It’s been open since September 16, at the Deem Print Gallery of the West Virginia University Art Museum, Morgantown.

A gift of the artist’s daughter, Lucie Mellert, the University is fortunate to have an entire set of the artist’s prints, including many white-line woodcuts, and is showing the complete collection. It is such a rare opportunity to see an artist’s total oeuvre (more than 50 pieces) and these are so lovely besides.

Taylor (1903-1995), who eventually spent twenty-eight summers in Provincetown, learned printmaking from her cousin, the artist Blanche Lazzell. Taylor attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Arthur Carles and later studied with both Hans Hofmann and Emil Bisttram. Taylor herself taught for forty years, at what is now the University of Charleston, West Virginia.

Many thanks to AL for alerting us to this terrific show.

Below is our pastel drawing (Town View), about 1935. It’s a beauty (and pretty large at 17 x 24 inches) but does have condition issues.

Link to the Gallery page:

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

Grace Martin Taylor, (Town View), about 1935, pastel, sheet size 17 x 24 inches

Link for WVU exhibition:

http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/n/2016/09/08/grace-martin-taylor-print-exhibition-opens-at-art-museum-of-wvu-sept-16

GraceMartinTaylor, BlancheLazzell, HansHofmann, DeemPrintGallery, WestVirginiaUniversityArtMuseum

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