Who’s responsible for mounting the superb exhibition devoted to the paintings, drawings, prints and notebooks of Edward Hopper (1882-1967) at the Whitney? The accompanying press materials don’t say. The show, part of the museum’s ongoing anniversary celebration, is a world apart from the rest of Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75, an Read More
Carolyn Harris, who hails from North Carolina and has already been seen here in a number of group exhibitions, is now having her first solo show of paintings at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. The principal subject is landscape, and Ms. Harris is anything but a novice in dealing with it. She’s traveled extensively in Read More
Nowadays, when auction prices for paintings by the modern masters, both American and European, are zooming into the stratosphere and even the work of some quite mediocre modernists enjoys a lively market and fetches amazingly flattering reviews in the mainstream press, the old controversies over the influence of the European avant-garde on American art seem Read More
It has taken an awfully long time for our art institutions to grant full recognition to the achievements of the American painter Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), but it’s beginning to look as if that day might finally be dawning. The retrospective Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser has organized at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Conn., 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
It was difficult to know what could be expected this year from The Art Show at the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue. The Art Show is the annual mega-exhibition organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) to celebrate the role played by the galleries in the art life of the nation. It Read More
With the opening this summer of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Met has taken another giant step toward establishing itself as a major center for 20th-century modernist art. For the Gelmans’ collection adds, among much else, important paintings from the Fauvist, Cubist and Surrealist schools in the Read More
Of the many things to be said about the extraordinary exhibition called Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries , which Sarah Greenough has organized at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the first is this: It not only illuminates a crucial chapter in the history of American modernism on Read More
Given the current contretemps over the ethics of museums that charge commissions for works of art sold out of their exhibitions and the even more sensational uproar over a criminal investigation into a possible conspiracy to price-fix commissions and other charges at the Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses, the timing of The Art Show this 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
