American Fine Art Magazine

11/21/2024

Happy Thursday - Time to slow down and enjoy this FREE read!

In this article, we share how The Reading Museum explores American Impressionism through a comparison of interior scenes and landscapes painted in plein air in an upcoming exhibition at the museum.

The Reading Museum explores American Impressionism through a comparison of interior scenes and landscapes painted in plein air

11/21/2024

What makes the ordinary extra-ordinary? The artist that puts a work together. Banana-as-Art Sells for $6.2 Million at Sotheby's — A conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan , “Comedian,” is just a fruit-stand banana taped on the wall. But 7 bidders were biting. It went to a crypto entrepreneur.
See the full story here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/arts/design/cattelan-banana-sothebys-auction.html

11/19/2024

Thomas Colville Fine Art just acquired this work by Eastman Johnson (1824-1906) Feeding the Lamb. This idyllic image of Johnson’s 5-year-old daughter, Ethel, feeding a lamb, was painted at their summer home on the island of Nantucket in 1875. It is emblematic of Johnson’s turn to tranquil, domestic
subjects after the Civil War.

11/19/2024

New Episode alert
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Joining us from Santa Fe, New Mexico, are two guests for today’s episode (302): Hopi carver Mavasta Honyouti and Wheelwright Museum curator Will Riding In. They will be talking about Mavasta’s new exhibition at the Wheelwright, which opened in October. The exhibition features 16 carved wooden low-relief panels depicting the life of Mavasta’s grandfather, who grew up in a Native American boarding school where his culture and traditions were stripped from him before he was able to return to his family and his home. The exhibition, Carved Stories, will be turned into a children’s book, releases this month.

11/19/2024

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A bimonthly Magazine is designed to provide collectors of historic American paintings, sculpture and drawings with all the necessary information they need to acquire new works of art.

11/17/2024

The excitement in Morgan Martin’s voice is palpable when he talks about the star of Bonhams ’ November 19 American Art sale and rightly so. Norman Rockwell’s 1940 oil A Scout is Loyal, on the market for the first time since 2013 when it sold for just over $4 million to a private collector in a Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, is expected to fetch a similar sum.

11/16/2024

A recent acquisition by J. Kenneth Fine Art & Estate Collection is another turn-of-the-century work to add to the gallery’s collection of Hudson River School and historical Vermont landscape paintings.
William Corning Stacy (American, 1836-1919) Untitled (View of Lake Champlain)

11/15/2024

In our November/December issue we are celebrating and of historical significance. to see some of the art in the section.
1 - Frances Kornbluth (1920-2014), Forest Path, 1989. Oil on canvas, 32.5 x 32.5 in. Available at J. Kenneth Fine Art, Shelburne, VT.
2 - Patricia Moore (Illustration for The Lightning Conductor Discovers America), 1915. Oil on canvas, 30 x 18 in., signed and dated lower right; inscribed ‘Lightning Conductor’ on overlap. Available at
Lincoln Glenn Gallery, New York, NY.
3 - Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935), ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. Gouache and watercolor on board, 18 x 17 in. (Original cover for the book ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement C. Moore with pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1912). Available at The Illustrated Gallery, Fort Washington, PA.
4 - Mimi Chen Ting (1946-2022), Hakone, 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 46 x 55 in. Available at Addison Rowe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
5 - Lucia Fairchild Fuller (1872-1924), Portrait. Watercolor, 3 x 2.5 in., signed center right; identified on verso and inscribed ‘Return to Mrs. Maria Taylor, Port Clyde, ME’. Available at Hawthorne Fine Art, New York, NY.

11/15/2024

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Shown: Soile Yli-Mäyry: Forty Years of Painting, Retrospective 1968-2008

11/14/2024

The 2024 Delaware Antique Show offers fine art and antiques, with proceeds that benefit the community. Visit the show and meet 60+ dealers, November 15-17 at Chase Center on the Riverfront in WIlmington. Proceeds from the Delaware Antiques Show help support key educational initiatives such as free school programs and low-priced tickets for families in need. “Through support of these important programs, we are able to share the wonder of Winterthur with thousands of schoolchildren, and all members of our surrounding community are able to enjoy the beauty of American decorative arts and the Brandywine Valley landscape.
James D. Smillie (1833–1909), The Yosemite Valley No. 1 (sketch), 1871. Oil on canvas. 12 x 22 in. Courtesy Avery Galleries.

11/13/2024

Get ready Dallas! Heritage Auctions hosts its American art sale November 15th, featuring important works highlighting a variety of art movements. Shown: Ernie Barnes (1938-2009), Playin’ the Net. Oil on canvas, 18 x 36 in., signed lower right: ‘Ernie Barnes’. Estimate: $70/100,000

11/12/2024

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11/12/2024

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11/12/2024

It’s live! We are excited to share the new Collectors episode of Craft in America premiering on PBS broadcast December 27, 2024 (check local listings) with early streaming on the PBS App today! COLLECTORS reveals the essential role that craft appreciators play in the community, examining how collectors affirm and inspire the artists they support. The episode highlights collections from Chicano art to teapots to wooden spoons, looking at what drives collectors and how their support furthers artists at all stages of their careers.

Kamm
Lockhart
Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum
L. Mazloomi
Sartorius
Shire
Craft Council

11/11/2024

It’s a fall full of auctions! John Moran Auctioneers Inc. returns with its signature auction of California and American fine art on November 12, 2024. Seen here (detail): Marion Kavanagh Wachtel (1870-1954), Santa Anita Creek. Oil on canvas, 26 x 36 in. Estimate: $15/20,000

11/10/2024

Swann Galleries showcases modern and post-war art in its November 12th sale.
Paul Jenkins (1923-2012), Phenomena Signal to Joy, 1975. Watercolor on paper, 29.5 x 22.5 in. Estimate: $4/6,000
Preview lots at Swann Galleries

11/09/2024

CHILDE HASSAM (American 1859-1935)
Little Old Shops 1912. Signed and dated lower left: Childe Hassam/March 1912, Oil on canvas, 14 x 17.5 inches

Available at A.J. Kollar Fine Art

11/08/2024

In just a month, classic works from American painters will be among the featured lots at Freeman’s | Hindman fall sale. On December 8, 2024, this dewing work among others will be on the auction block.
Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938), The Music Lesson, 1921. Oil on canvas, 16 1/8 x 14 in. Estimate: $200/300,000