Report from the McNay Art Museum Fair.

This past weekend was the McNay Museum Art Fair. Getting to San Antonio in the first week of March, 2015, was a challenge for pretty much everyone, but it was wonderful once we were there.  Mostly it was in the 50s with a soft rain on Sunday – perfect weather for the McNay Art Museum’s fair.

     Our New York/Art Students League wall featured work by Peggy Bacon, Will Barnet, and Isabel Bishop. There was also interest in William Baziotes, Howard Daum, Claire Mahl Moore, Anne Ryan, and Louis Schanker.

     Paintings in the museum’s mid-twentieth century American room change often, but it’s great to see their Ben Shahn Sing Sorrow, 1946, year after year. Among the special exhibitions was Rodin to Warhol: 60th Anniversary Gifts, with works by Dorothy Dehner, Angelo Pinto, and Anne Ryan. The Ryan was a collage, so we’re showing ours here.

Anne Ryan, Collage, 1951

Report from the Metro Curates fair.

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This week we are at the Metro Fair at the 
Metropolitan Pavilion

125 West 18^th Street, west of 6^th Avenue, NYC

Friday, January 23, 11 AM to 7 PM
Saturday, January 24, 11 AM to 7 PM
Sunday, January 25, Noon to 5:30 PM

          Howard Daum, Untitled (MCMLXII), 1962

We are featuring American Modernism including an entire wall of William Baziotes mid-30s surrealist drawings and two 1940s pictograph paintings. Also on view are works by Will Barnet, William Baziotes, Alexander Brook, Morris Graves, Peter Grippe, Fannie Hillsmith, Hugh Mesibov, Angelo Pinto, Bernard Rosenquit, Anne Ryan, Mary Sinclair, and Mark Tobey.

We still have a few day passes. Please call the cell if you would like me to leave them at Will Call for you: 917-282-3999.

A Day at Queens College, Queens, NY

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On Monday, December 15, under the Professionals Campus program of Queens College I spent an afternoon with beginning art history students in Dr. Deborah Vischak's class. (The Manhattan skyline is a change since my graduate school days.)

 The day was organized by Lauren Cooper who visited the gallery back in July. She works with

Laurie Dorf, AVP for Institutional Advancement. Ms. Dorf introduced the program; Dr. Vischak moderated; colleague Rona Schneider also participated.

The event was held in Klapper Hall. It was great to be back there -- the scene of all those art history classes in the 1970s. At the Godwin-Ternbach Museum I visited the Daghlian Collection of Chinese Art with director Amy Winter. Ranging from hundreds of years before the Christian era through to the nineteenth century, the show focused on ceramics; included were pieces older than the county of China itself. In addition to plates and bowls, there were small models of yurts and chicken coops, perhaps for funerary purposes. In particular, pieces from the Song Dynasty (960-1279) reflected it’s “golden age” brilliance.

At Red Dot Miami

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Red Dot is in full swing. The traffic has been great; the visitors have been friendly and interesting and interested, looking especially at the William Baziotes paintings, the Angelo Pinto reverse painting on glass, Red Beach Flag, 1970, and the Peggy Bacon embroidery collage, Valentine Concoction, 1959.

 

Peggy Bacon, Valentine Concoction, 1959

There have been showers every day since we’ve been in Miami, all starting suddenly, coming down in buckets, and ending just as quickly.  It’s fine if you are snug and dry in the tent and it sounds wonderful. And then the sun comes out again and it’s beautiful!

RED DOT FAIR, MIAMI

Tonight is the opening of the Red Dot Fair, Miami.  Mostly we're ready and the fair looks great.  There was a brief shower this afternoon (sounded nice in the tent), but the day is really fine.  The "Recent Acquisitions" group is a little crowded, but I like it that way.  How else can we show the Peggy Bacons, Alexander Brooks, AND the Isabel Bishops!  

Brook's Bordello Nude, about 1935, relates to a bed headboard and footboard (both sides) that he painted with several boudoir scenes.

THE ABSTRACT PRINT

 

THE ABSTRACT PRINT

ON VIEW THROUGH THIS SATURDAY, 
November 22, 2014

 

Ansei Uchima,

Forest Byobu 
(Shrub Oak), 1979

Prints by JOSEF ALBERS, FRED BECKER, 
EDMOND CASARELLA, MINNA CITRON,
WORDEN DAY, DOROTHY DEHNER, 
SUE FULLER, PETER GRIPPE,FANNIE HILLSMITH, 
DOROTHY BROWDY KUSHNER, 
ALICE TRUMBULL MASON, 

HUGH MESIBOV, ANNE RYAN, 
LOUIS SCHANKER, and ANSEI UCHIMA.    

   

These works may be viewed at WWW.SUSANTELLERGALLERY.COM, under EXHIBITIONS.

ANSEI UCHIMA SHOW IN OKINAWA NOW ON VIEW

Colors and Wind: The World of ANSEI UCHIMA is on view from September 12 through November 9, 2014.

This extensive retrospective of work by UCHIMA is part of the series Artists with Okinawan Roots at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Naha City, Okinawa, Japan.

Ansei Uchima was born in Stockton, California. At the age of nineteen he traveled to Japan to study architecture and was stranded there by World War II. He studied painting in the early 1950s, and in 1954 he began to study historical Japanese prints. In 1957 he began to make his own prints, working in the tradition of the sosaku-hanga movement, begun in Japan in 1918. In 1960 Uchima moved to New York City. In 1962 he began teaching at Sarah Lawrence College. He taught there until 1982, and was named a Professor Emeritus in 1985. Uchima was married to the artist Toshiko Uchima. The artists Isamu Noguchi and Shiko Munakata were among their friends.

Ansei Uchima, After Redon, 1972, watercolor.  This drawing is on loan from the Gallery to the Exhibition.