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
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
Nowadays, neither the art nor the writings nor even the name of the American painter Guy Pène du Bois (1884-1958) is likely to be familiar to the New York art public. The passage of time, changes in taste and the steady, often cynical drumbeat for the promotion of hot new reputations all conspire to consign 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
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
Two of the words I like least in the lexicon of contemporary art are “appropriation” and “irony.” The former connotes a facile borrowing of style and/or imagery; the latter a smug indifference to purpose. Neither term is bandied about as promiscuously as it once was, but that doesn’t mean they’ve lost their currency-on the contrary, Read More
It is the melancholy fate of certain artists to be remembered by posterity for a single example of their work, and the American painter Thomas Pollock Anshutz (1851-1912) is one of them. In many histories of American art, a painting by Anshutz called The Ironworkers’ Noontime (1880) is credited with establishing the American industrial scene Read More
