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Selections of Four Great American Sculptors
Joe Brown, Robert Cook, Donald De Lue and Albert Wein
April 9, 2008 - May 7, 2008
In Selections of Four American Sculptors, works by Joe Brown, Robert Cook, Donald De Lue and Albert Wein are on view. Their independently significant careers represent the diverse world of twentieth century American sculpture. All the works are period casts and display each sculptor’s particular style and technique. Please contact the gallery for biographies and exhibition information.
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Chromophilia: The Impact of Color
The Impact of Color 1945-1975
Currently on View
An exploration of color theory amongst some of the world's most prominent figures of the Abstract Movement, including Karel Appel, Norman Bluhm, Ralph Della-Volpe, Larry Rivers and John Sennhauser.
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Georges Noël: 11 Palimpsest Paintings
Post-War Abstraction
October 2007
Georges Noël was born in Béziers, France in 1924. He studied both painting and sculpture in Pau. Influenced greatly by the art informal and Noveau Réalisme movements that emerged at this time, Georges Noël believes in gesture, objects and the accident. The imagery within each painting is inspired by primitive and archaic symbols, graffiti art and musical scores. After moving to Paris in 1955, his artistic career began to flourish, and it continued to accelerate when he relocated to the United States
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Eleanor Parke Custis
American, 1897-1983
Online Exhibition
Born in the District of Columbia, Eleanor Custis is directly descended from Martha Washington. In 1915, she enrolled in a three-year program at the Corcoran School of Art with Edmund Tarbell, and she also studied with Henry Snell. Widely traveled, she did watercolor sketches in Europe and Guatemala. She was also a successful childrens' book and magazine cover illustrator and belonged to several art associations including the American Watercolor Society, the Washington Watercolor Club, the North Shore Arts Association, the Boston Art Club, and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. Her summer studio was in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where she settled permanently in 1960. After 1935, her interest turned to photography about which she wrote and illustrated a book, "Composition and Pictures."
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Ralph Della-Volpe: Works from the 1950s
The Abstract Expressionist Years
Online Exhibition
Della-Volpe first studied painting at the National Academy of Design before joining the Army during World War II. As a soldier, the artist saw action on Utah Beach, and his experiences undoubtedly affected his later artistic style. Tom Wolf, of Bard College, explained that the paintings Della-Volpe produced after his return from service in World War II “project feelings of melancholy.”, expressed in the tense expressions in the figures’ faces. The “coloristic exuberance” found in the works beginning in the mid 1960’s, with their vibrant fuscias and yellows, seem to offset what could be an otherwise solemn tone to many of his works at the time.
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Donald R. Purdy
American, b. 1924
Online Exhibition
Throughout the many years that Donald Purdy has painted, his subjects and styles have not remained constant. He began as an abstract painter and then moved into a style that has combined abstraction and a more representational style. From there he experimented with many means of expression including a Barbizon-influenced period and a tight realist approach. One thing that has remained constant is his tendency to work in series. His beach scenes have become his most desirable series of works. Their bright and impressionistic manner recall Chase's work in Shinnecock and are the culmination of many years of painting.
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Abstraction
American and European Art in the Twentieth Century
May 18 through June 18, 2007
The exhibition will include works by such notable artists as George Valmier, Andre Lanskoy, Norman Bluhm, Mark Tobey, and Theodoros Stamos among others. Historians and collectors alike have began to re-evaluate all of the movements within Abstraction and the roles they played on the history of art in the twentieth century. At no other time in the history of art has there been many artists with many styles challenging the way we view and understand art. Now, with hindsight we can better understand what these artists and visionaries were trying to express.
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20th Century American Sculpture
Works by Manship, Hoffman, Vonnoh, Borglum, Jennewein and Bertoia
October 26- November 27, 2006
An exceptional collection of sophisticated works by Americas finest 20th century sculptors. It will feature works by sculptors such as Paul Manship, Malvina Hoffman, Bessie Vonnoh, Gutzon Borglum, Paul Jennewein and Harry Bertoia and concentrate on works executed from early in the century to modern day. Accompanying the exhibition will be a publication available upon request.
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Views of New York: Johann Berthelsen
A very special collection of Oils, Nocturnes and Works in Pastel
October 13 - November 3, 2006
We are very pleased to exhibit a collection of oils and pastels never available before for sale. It will include views of the Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park and views around the Plaza. Berthelsen lived in this neighborhood and devoted a great deal of his artistic energy capturing it at different times of the day and seasons. Featured in this exhibition are a group of exquisite pastels depicting charming and intimate views of the city, executed in the artistic spirit of Whistlers nocturnes.
