Peggy Bacon: Drawings and Prints, 1915 to 1976, through April 30

               Peggy Bacon, The Pet (Of Course, They All Wanted the Cat), 1919

In one of the earliest works in the show, Votes for Women, 1915, Bacon places her feminist on a platform labeled Babbit’s Lye, standing her on an authentic soapbox.  Women as bathing ”Beauties of Nature,” 1942, morph into Mexican matrons in shawls in the 1976 -- sixty years of applying a sharp eye to her surroundings.

Bacon studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Women in 1913 and at the Art Students League in with George Bellows, John Sloan, and Kenneth Hayes Miller from 1915 to 1920. Although based in New York City she spent extended periods in Woodstock, NY, and Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Over the years her prints and drawings ranged from charming to shrewd to caustic.

In the brochure for the exhibition, Between the Wars, Women Artists of the Whitney Studio Club and Museum, 1997, curator David W. Kiehl wrote “Peggy Bacon… ranks… among the greatest American delineator of human personality of the period.”

Bacon contributed to Vanity Fair, the New Masses, and The New Yorker, and illustrated more than 60 books, many her own and many for children. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 1934. Her work is in permanent collections throughout the country.

Additional highlights of the show are the drypoints, Hard of Hearing, 1933, that appeared in the New York Worlds’ Fair, 1939, and an artist’s proof of Aesthetic Pleasure, 1936, with extensive annotations in the artist’s hand.

                                   Peggy Bacon, Hard of Hearing, 1933

 

The entire show may be viewed under Exhibitions or Current at WWW.SUSANTELLERGALLERY.COM

 

The Chicago Print and Drawing Fair

Peggy Bacon, Votes for Women, 1915

The Chicago Print and Drawing Fair is currently on view in the Yates Gallery of the Chicago Cultural Center, March 17 through March 20, 2011. Fourteen dealers are showing, all International Fine Print Dealers Association members. At this fair we are featuring works by women: Peggy Bacon (in advance of our April show), Riva Helfond, Anne Ryan, and Marguerite Zorach. Will Barnet, James Daugherty, Howard Daum, Peter Grippe, and Hugh Mesibov, round out the group.

Absolute Abstraction

James Daugherty, Synchromist Compositon, 1972, 6 x 12 inches

Absolute Abstraction is now on view through March 12, 2011. Paintings, sculpture, and works on paper include Josef Albers’ classic lithograph, Prefatio, 1942, Hugh Mesibov’s enormous oil, Spontaneous Landscape, 1957, and James Daugherty’s pastel, Synchromist Compostion, 1972. Also represented are Fred Becker, Charles Burchfield, Hans Burkhardt, Edmond Casarella, Minna Citron, Worden Day, Howard Daum, Dorothy Dehner, Sue Fuller, Peter Grippe, Riva Helfond, Fannie Hillsmith, Dorothy Browdy Kushner, George Morrison, Jean Morrison Becker, Bernard Rosenquit, Anne Ryan, Louis Schanker, Fred Shane, Mitchell Siporin, Howard Thomas, and Ansei Uchima.

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