Important American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture Offered at Sotheby’s New York

NEW YORK, NY.- The 19 May auction of American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture at Sotheby’s New York will offer works by important American artists and genres, spanning Impressionism, Modernism, 19th Century Paintings and Western Art. The sale is highlighted by two important private collections: Property from the Collection of Edward P. Evans, featuring works by American Impressionist and Ashcan School artists, and Property from a Distinguished East Coast Collection, including canvases by Thomas Hart Benton, Milton Avery and Marsden Hartley. [...]

George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters at the National Gallery

LONDON.- The National Gallery presents a small exhibition of 12 paintings that have never been seen before in the United Kingdom. On view from March 3 through May 30, 2011. ‘An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters’ introduces visitors to Bellows and his artist friends (William Glackens, George Luks, John Sloan and their teacher Robert Henri), and to an important moment in the history of American painting. William Glackens, Washington Square, 1910 © New Britain Museum of American Art, [...]

Collector Jane Batten Donates Nine American Masterpieces to the Chrysler Museum of Art

NORFOLK, VA.- In addition to his extraordinary success as a businessman, civic leader, and philanthropist, the late Frank Batten, Sr. was also a distinguished art collector. Now, thanks to the generosity of Jane Batten, nine works from the Batten Collection have been placed on long-term loan to the Chrysler as promised gifts to the Museum. This winter the museum will present these American masterpieces by Winslow Homer, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hart Benton, William Glackens, and Edward Redfield, and others in [...]

The Whitney to Present Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time

NEW YORK, NY.- As American artists rebelled against the academic art and aristocratic portraiture that predominated at the turn of the twentieth century, they began looking to modern life for their subject matter. One of central figures in this dramatic shift was Edward Hopper, whose work is exhibited in relation to his most important contemporaries in Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time, opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on October 28, 2010. Placing Hopper beside such artists [...]

Private Collection Paintings Complement American Holdings at the Hood

HANOVER, NH.- The Hood Museum of Art is very fortunate to have on loan for the coming year eight superb American paintings from the collection of a Dartmouth parent. Currently installed alongside highlights from the museum’s American art collections, these works dramatically enhance the Hood’s presentation of key developments in the history of American art and culture. All of the paintings are masterful in execution and each provides an enlightening window onto a particular time period and sensibility. This remarkable [...]