Art, Nature, and the American City, 1840-1955 at the Clay Center, Charleston, West Virginia

September 9, 2010 — Lisa N. Peters
David Johnson - Landscape (White Mansion in the Distance), 1863

David Johnson, "Landscape (White Mansion in the Distance)," 1863, oil on canvas, 18 x 28 inches

Lisa N. Peters

Last year the Collector’s Club of the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia (Charleston) visited the gallery and a lively dialogue ensued as members considered possible acquisitions with the gallery’s associate director Gina Greer.   This interchange was the impetus for Art, Nature, and the American City, 1840-1955, an exhibition the gallery has lent to the Clay Center that opened July 16 and will remain on view through October 10.

Including over eighty paintings and works on paper, the show raises many fascinating questions with regard to attitudes, as manifested through art, about the American city and countryside. Read the rest of this entry »

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Allen Tucker’s Mountain Scenes: An Intriguing Parallel

March 26, 2010 — Lisa N. Peters
Allen Tucker, "Mountain Landscape," oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches

Allen Tucker, "Mountain Landscape," oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches

Lisa N. Peters

Several recent visitors to the gallery have pointed out the similarity between a number of the mountain paintings Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) created in Maine in 1906-9 and mountain paintings by Allen Tucker (1866-1939) in our current exhibition, including Mountain Landscape and Mt. Desert Island, Maine.  Neither work by Tucker is dated but they reflect some of the same sources and interests as Hartley’s. Read the rest of this entry »

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Noteworthy Events

February 23, 2010 — Katherine Bogden

In the gallery and beyond!

Beyond the Gallery

Betty Parsons, tweedle Dum Tweedle Dee

Betty Parsons (1900-1982), “Tweedle Dum, Tweedle Dee,” 1981, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 66 inches, signed and dated on verso: “Betty Parsons 1981 / Tweedle – Dum / Tweedle – Dee”

The Armory Show (March 4-7, 2010): Stop by Spanierman Modern’s booth at America’s leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In its eleven years, the fair has become an international institution. Spanierman Modern will be showing works by Betty Parsons, whose original and distinctive artistic voice, often overlooked due to the attention given to her role as an illustrious art dealer, has finally in the last decade begun to receive the appreciation it long deserved.

Find us at Pier 92 | Booth 150

Please note: Until March 13 Spanierman Modern has on view Journeys: The Art of Betty Parsons, which focuses on the relationship of her paintings and sculptures to her travels in America and abroad.

Architectural Digest Home Design Show (March 18-21, 2010): Designers! Stop by the Spanierman Booth at the Ninth annual Architectural Digest Home Design Show. Associate Director David Major will be in attendance to answer questions about the gallery and our work with designers. Read the rest of this entry »

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Allen Tucker: Post Impressionist Works of “Robust Plentitude”

February 10, 2010 — Lisa N. Peters
Allen Tucker, Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0024455.

Allen Tucker, Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Lisa N. Peters

At the outset of our work on a show of the art of Allen Tucker, opening February 25, we gathered what we knew to be the standard reference material on Tucker, but we soon discovered that what we found initially was the tip of the iceberg. More and more articles on Tucker and information on him and his art kept surfacing. As we examined it, we pieced together a full picture of Tucker’s career in the show’s catalogue (the most comprehensive yet), realizing in the process that he was an artist of much prominence in New York from the mid-1910s through the 1930s and that he elicited an inordinate amount of respect from his peers for his integrity and broad-mindedness as well as for the creative versatility of his art, which critic Virgil Barker commended in 1928 for its “robust plentitude.”
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