WOMEN OF ATELIER 17, NEW YORK

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Innovation and Abstraction: Women Artists and Atelier 17 is now on view at the Pollock-Krasner House, The Springs, East Hampton, NY, through October 29, 2016.

 

Minna Citron, Ishtar, 1946, on loan for exhibition.

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.

 

Sue Fuller Cacophany, 1944, intaglio, final state.

Link to Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center Exhibitions:

http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/pkhouse/exhibition/2016_exhibitions.shtml

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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Stanley William Hayter's Laocoön, 1943

The story of Laocoön was told by Sophocles and others though details vary enormously. The most famous is from Virgil’s Aeneid in which Laocoön was a priest of Poseidon (Neptune for the Romans) who was killed with his sons by sea serpents after attempting to expose the true nature of the Trojan Horse by striking it with a spear. (And so we are warned to fear Greeks who bear gifts.)

The most well known image of Laocoön and His Sons is the first century sculpture associated with Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus, made in the Hellenistic baroque manner. It is now in the Vatican. However there are numerous other interpretations and this may in fact be a marble copy of an earlier bronze.

In the Dadaglobe Roconstructed show at the Museum of Modern Art there’s a small gelatin silver print of Jean Arp’s Laocoön, made about 1930. His inspiration was an illustration of the intestine of a dog, preserved in alcohol. It resembled his own abstract drawings. (Here’s my photo of that photo.)

Silver print of Jean Art's, Laocoön, 1920,
original photographer unknown.

Stanley William Hayter tackled the subject while in New York City during World War II. One of his most admired images, Laocoön, 1943, captures a chaotic moment in history enriched by Hayter’s technical heroics.

Stanley William Hayter, Laocoön, 1943, intaglio

Art for Every Home, LAST DAY

July 9, 2016

LAST DAY!

Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists, 1934-2000, at the Grey Art Gallery of NYU, ends today, Saturday, July 9. The catalogue and exhibition were about fifteen years in coming so it’s especially hard to see the show close in NYC.

Link to our page of AAA related material:

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

Francisco Toledo, Leon, 1971, Windisch & Cole 2145, etching, edition of 250 published by AAA.

New: Lithographs by ZYGMUND JANKOWSKI

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Zygmund Jankowski (1925-2009) is known for his modernist compositions, highly original sense of color, and effective use of  “the white of the paper.” He was born in South Bend, Indiana. After serving in the US Navy Jankowski attended the California College of Arts and Crafts, where studied with, Victor DeWilde, Otis Oldfield, and George Post.

 

Zygmund Jankowski, My Garden, 1961, lithograph

Returning to the mid-west he taught at Indiana University, South Western Michigan College, Hilton Leech School of Art, the Bremen Art Center, the Niles Art Center, the South Bend Art Association, and the Rockport Art Association.

Beginning in 1964 he summered in Rocky Neck, MA, and opened a summertime gallery. In the 1970s he made a permanent move to Gloucester where he held workshops at his studio. In the 1990s he moved to Lanesville. Among those institutions with work by Jankowski is the Cape Ann Museum. In their biography of the artist they acknowledge his role of inspiring a generation of Cape Ann artists.

Zygmund Jankowski was featured in 40 Watercolorists and How They Work by Susan E. Meyer, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1978.

ASSOCIATED AMERICAN ARTISTS Print List, Spring, 2016

This list is timed to the exhibition Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists, 1934-2000, on view at the Grey Art Gallery of NYU though July 9, 2016.

 

Thomas Hart Benton, The Race (also titled Homeward Bound), 1942

Gail Windisch (while kindly sharing credit with Sylvan Cole) up-dated the list of AAA prints begun by Meg Hausberg at AAA in the 1970s.

The prints listed here are either AAA publications or were featured in mail order brochures. They are in very good to excellent condition; exceptions are noted. Prices are subject to change and do not include frames, sales tax, or shipping. Additions will appear at the top of the list, which is no particular order. The book Art for Every Home is available on Amazon.com, and every home should have one!

This is the link to the SITE: http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_art.pl?artist=aaa

In addition to Benton there are prints by Peggy Bacon, Francisco Toledo, Romare Bearden, Mabel Dwight, Karl Schrag, S.L. Margolies, Georges Schreiber, Lawrence Beall Smith, Harry Sternberg, Grace Albee, many others.

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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.

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