Pop-Up Art Gallery to Bring Abstract Works to Washington

Tomorrow's Starting Now

I am excited to announce that I will be holding my inaugural pop-up gallery in Washington Depot, CT later this month featuring the work of New York artist Sarah Hinckley.  The show will run September 29 – October 11 at 5 Green Hill Road Washington Depot, CT.   The gallery will be open 10 am – 6 pm and by appointment.  For more information please call me at 917-697-0591.

In the July issue of American Art Collector Lauren Della Monica
examines Massachusetts artist Katherine Ann Hartley’s paintings. 

Anything But Still: Katherine Ann Hartley’s richly suggestive
still life paintings hover in time but are grounded in place.

Read the article

Flying the Colors

Art historian John Wilmerding writes “not since the first major publication on this subject over three decades ago… have we seen such a magisterial visual survey of the field.”

“A salt breeze lifts these pages,” writes Laura Beach for Antiques and the Arts Online.

“This book is one great leap to a fuller appreciation of American marine art,” writes A.J. Peluso, Jr.  in Maine Antique Digest.

Flying the Colors: The Unseen Treasures of Nineteenth-Century American Marine Art, which I wrote in 2007-08 (and which is co-authored by Alan Granby and Janice Hyland) is now available at amazon.com (pre-order) or through Mystic Seaport, The Museum of America and the Sea.  After so much hard work and such a long wait it is a tremendous pleasure to see it in print.  I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

For those with a keen interest in marine painting the illustrations in this anthology will be hard to resist.  The text of the book is also rich with pleasure and consists of five chapters: Fine Art (including the work of Robert Salmon, Fitz Henry Lane, William Bradford, Francis Augustus Silva, Alfred Thomas Bricher and William Trost Richards); American Marine Art (including paintings of harbor scenes, the work of the Luminists, refined ship portraiture and American primitive ship portraiture); Chapter Three is devoted to the work of American artist James E. Buttersworth; Chapter Four  is dedicated to painter Antonio Jacobsen; and finally the International chapter (including works depicting American ships in foreign ports.)

Thank you all for your support and interest in my work and in marine painting in general.  We are currently planning various book launch events and parties to take place in New York City, Litchfield, CT and Palm Beach, FL.  Please stay tuned for more details.

Don’t forget to join me at the Winter Antiques Show, New York on January 27, 2010 where I will be available for discussion, questions and to sign your copy of the book.  Please call me if you need tickets to the show.

I look forward to seeing all of you.

Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid is now on view through November 29th at the Met.  The famed Vermeer painting of the young woman is on loan to the Met from Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and is on view with five other Vermeer paintings and various other Dutch paintings from the Met’s collection.  Also at the Met, in case you missed it this spring or summer there is still time to see Roxy Paine on the Roof, Maelstrom.

The Whitney Museum of American Art brings us one of the most intriguing exhibitions of all in Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction opening tomorrow.  This exhibition takes us beyond the shells, flowers and desert skies we typically associate with O’Keeffe and delves into the more subtle and sensual lines and shades of her abstract drawings and paintings.

From abstraction to non-objective painting… The Guggenheim highlights one of the core artists in its permanent collection with its exhibition Kandinsky, opening later this week.  This is a rare opportunity to see so much of the artist’s work in one location.

As for art fairs, be sure to attend Modernism + Art20 November 13-16 at the Park Avenue Armory.