Heads Up: Fine Sculptor
Reconfigures the Noggin
The organizing principle behind Alfred H. Maurer and Jonathan Silver: An Installation , on display at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, is obvious: Although Maurer (1868-1932) and Silver (1937-1992) belonged to different historical epochs, they share a fascination with the human head, both as an iconographic mainstay and Read More
There are times when we need to be reminded of the crucial role played by commercial galleries and private collectors in correcting the errors-especially errors of omission and indifference-of our leading museums. This is not a new problem on the New York art scene. It was the problem that Alfred Stieglitz addressed nearly a century Read More
In 1901, the American painter Alfred H. Maurer (1868-1932) was awarded the gold medal and the top prize of $1,500 at the Carnegie International Exhibition for a picture called An Arrangement by a jury of artists that included Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. For anyone familiar with the art of that period, the title of Read More
To mark its last 25 years, the Salander-O’Reilly Galleries has mounted an extraordinary exhibition of modern American painting and sculpture drawn mainly from the first four decades of the century. Among the earliest works in the show are the Fauvist Still Life (circa 1907) by Alfred Maurer; a bronze sculpture, Standing Male Nude (1908-9), by Read More
