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16 - THE GALLERY April 27, 2012 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly Diego Rivera, “Clasped Hands,” drawing. A Fine Thing Displays Some Gems BY EDWARD POLLOCK, OWNER, A FINE THING: EDWARD T. POLLACK FINE ARTS PORTLAND, MAINE — After some months of indecision, A Fine Thing: Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts has decided to renew its lease in the Portland Stage Theater Building and remain on Forest Avenue. Our focus during the spring will be to accomplish some much needed refurbishing of the space, while continuing to display as many of the best works from our extensive collection of fine prints, drawings and photos as possible. At the same time, in our space at Oyster House Studio & Frame in Damariscotta, a selection from these works will be augmented by an assortment of interesting and beautiful objects of all types, and by an extensive, and regularly changing display of books relating to the arts. During April, in conjunction with the appearance of an article about them in Art New England, we held a successful exhibition of the woodblock prints of Don Gorvatt and the etchings of Sean Hurley. Earlier in the winter, we exhibited at two major shows, the Lighthouse Works on Paper Show in New York City, and the Capitol Arts Print Fair in Washington, D.C. Going forward, we have shows planned in New York and Boston in November 2012. Details about these shows will be posted under the “Shows” tab on our website. As always, we invite people to visit our website and view our large inventory. Items are described and priced, and most are accompanied by images. As it is so hard to keep up with posting images, we are grateful and accommodating when someone asks us to put up an image of a work they are interested in. We continue to be enthusiastic about American prints from early and mid-Twentieth Century, with significant holdings of works by Reginald Marsh, John Sloan, Raphael Soyer, Joseph Hirsch, Isabel Bishop and Rockwell Kent, to which we have added works by Antonio Frasconi, Mauricio Lasansky, Misch Kohn, Louise Nevelson, Anne Ryan and others. Later in the year we expect to mount a small exhibition of German Expressionist prints, which will include work by Dix, Campendonck, Kollwitz, Mueller, Marc and Beckmann. We welcome visitors to the gallery, and recommend a call ahead, as our hours may sometimes be erratic. A Fine Thing: Edward T. Pollack Fine Art is at 29 Forest Avenue. For information, visit www.edpollackfinearts.com, call 207-699-2919, 617-610-7173 or email ed@edpollackfinearts.com. Berkshire ART GALLERY 80 Railroad Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230 Hours: Noon to 5 PM, Saturday & Sunday (413) 528-2690 | www.berkshireartgallery.com Summer Woods, O/C, 20 x 26. William Henry Hyde, 1858-1943, American. Partial Inventory: C. Apt, March Avery, James Carlin, C. Chichester, Jack Coggins, Lee Court, James Cranstoun, Arthur V. Diehl, J.J. Enwright, Jose Maria Jardines, Alice Judson, S. Le Grec, A. Lepere, Arthur Lloy, S. Maniatty, P. Bela Mayer, Lucien Moretti, Harry W. Newman, Edmund Niemann, Leo Politi, Arthur J.E. Powell, G. Reckard, Marian P. Sloane, Guy C. Wiggins, Hunter Wood and others.
Antiques and The Arts Weekly — April 27, 2012 BY MADELYN JORDON As Madelyn Jordon Fine Art has settled into its new exhibition space in Scarsdale, our inaugural show is “Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Modern and Contemporary Selections” As the title suggests, the exhibition is a dialogue between Twentieth Century artists and their contemporary peers. The modern art selections came from a private collection and featured major works by William Gropper (1897–1977) and Jack Levine (1915–2010), including a painting from Gropper’s renowned Senate Series. Created in 1962, the intricate, powerful composition includes a distillation of nine interacting, suited figures. A standing, gesticulating figure dominates the action, surrounded by other characters in a range of expressive poses, from sitting, reading and sleeping. Gropper applies a cubist approach to the surface plane in vivid color juxtapositions and interlocking geometric blocks integrating the overall painting. Gropper, a social realist painter and muralist from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, was a neighbor and personal friend of the collector. The families lived steps away from each other in Great Neck, N.Y., during Gropper’s later years. In the early part of his career, Gropper worked as an illustrator for regional and national publications. Vanity Fair commissioned him in the 1930s to create cartoons about the Senate — thus Gropper & Levine Paintings Talk Politics At Madelyn Jordon Fine Art William Gropper, painting from The Senate Series, 1963, oil on canvas, 29½ by 59½ inches; signed lower left. beginning his satirical paintings of politicians and their processes. His political paintings are held in the prominent permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Museum, among others. He received critical acclaim and professional recognition throughout his life, The New Yorker calling him “one of the most accomplished, as well as one of the most significant artists of our generation.” His later work moved towards a more European aesthetic, stylistically different than his earlier work, but containing the same subject matter that focused on the human condition. Another important American social realist artist featured in the exhibition is Jack Levine — whose painting “The Boardroom” came from the same private collection. Levine, a realist artist best known for his satire and social commentary of big business, political corruption, militarism and racism, alienated himself from his contemporaries and explored the works of Old Masters. His works are in numerous museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco, the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art. Both Gropper and Levine took a critical approach in their commentary of their country, but they were also Ture Bengtz: Life Lessons Four Decades of a Boston Expressionist Painter, Draftsman and Storyteller April 2 - May 26, 2012 CHILDS GALLERY Established 1937 FINE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PAINTINGS PRINTS, DRAWINGS, WATERCOLORS AND SCULPTURE 169 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 617-266-1108 info@childsgallery.com childsgallery.com THE GALLERY — 17 incredible draughtsmen who had complete control of their medium. The current political and economic climate in this country has given Gropper and Levine new relevancy, as the concerns of these artists for public awareness and activism still ring true today. The contemporary portion of the exhibition includes works by Kenneth Noland, Ted Larsen and Yangyang Pan, among others. These artists work primarily in a color-rich, abstract way, in a variety of mediums from salvage steel to oil on canvas. The William Gropper painting featured here may be viewed at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, 37 Popham Road, Scarsdale, N.Y. For information, 914-723-8738 or info@madelynjordonfineart.com.
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