David Fertig is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New Jersey, but his art is patently at odds with the here and now. His paintings, which are currently on display at James Graham & Sons, keep getting stranger. His fascinations are so singular that he could almost be mistaken for an outsider artist. Read More
Looking at the photograph of David Fertig in the catalog accompanying an exhibition of his paintings at James Graham and Sons, I was taken aback by how normal he appears to be. I don’t know what I was expecting, really. Given Mr. Fertig’s continuing series of pictures depicting the Napoleonic Wars-a subject that is, for Read More
Painting That’s Alive Today
And Makes Its Home in the PastThe first thing you might think upon entering James Graham and Sons’ ground-floor space on Madison Avenue is that the gallery has mounted an overview of an unheralded 19th-century painter, something along the lines of the Walter Gay show seen at the same venue last Read More
The first thing you might think upon entering James Graham and Sons’ ground-floor space on Madison Avenue is that the gallery has mounted an overview of an unheralded 19th-century painter, something along the lines of the Walter Gay show seen at the same venue last spring. The pictures of castles, duels, naval battles and soldiers Read More
