Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA)
Founded in 1962, the Art Dealers Association of America is a vetted community of more than 180 top-tier galleries across the United States. Working with these member galleries, ADAA appraisers offer assessment services for artworks spanning from the Renaissance to the present day. The ADAA also arranges public forums on important art-related topics and hosts The Art Show, presented each year at New York’s Park Avenue Armory, which stands out among art fairs for its acclaimed selection of curated booths — many of which are one-artist exhibitions.to
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Untitled I, II, III
By Robert Mangold
Located in New York, NY
numbered and signed lower margin
S&S Cat. no. 2007.01
edition 6/30
Published by Simmelink/Sukimoto Editions, Kingston, New York
Associated with the Minimalist art movement of the 1...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Still Life - Niccone
Located in New York, NY
William Bailey’s still life paintings present seemingly everyday objects, including bowls, pitchers, and cups, in groupings that conjure the familiar world while offering a metaphysi...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Paper, Casein
Untitled
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns
Untitled
2010
Intaglio on Revere Standard White
19 x 21 1/2 inches
48 x 55 cm
Edition of 50
Signed, dated, and numbered in graphite (lower recto)
Frame available upon request
Available from Matthew Marks Gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Intaglio, Etching
Franconia, New Hampshire
By David Johnson
Located in New York, NY
David Johnson was a stalwart of the New York art world in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the fifty years between 1849 and 1899, Johnson exhibited over fifty paintings at the National Academy of Design, where he was an academician. In 1867, Johnson visited a spot above West Point on the Hudson River to paint a view that had long been a favorite of the landscape artists comprising the so-called “Hudson River School.” John Kensett had painted from the same vantage point ten years earlier, describing the area in a letter of 1854 as being “in the midst of the beautiful highlands of the Hudson, which I think for their peculiar kind of beauty there is nothing to surpass” (Kensett to his uncle, John R. Kensett, March 30, 1854, as quoted in Natalie Spassky and Kathleen Luhrs, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol 2: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845 [New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985], p. 33). The Kensett painting, now called Hudson River Scene...
Category
19th Century American Realist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Golden Rod and other Wildflowers
By John Ross Key
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): John Ross Key 1882
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled (Midday)
By Colin Hunt
Located in New York, NY
In Colin Hunt’s new paintings, myriad tiny rocks, grains of sand, and strands of rockweed form a coastal beach, while lush forests pierce a crystalline sky. Elsewhere, palpable mists...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Mise En Scene"
By Max Hammond
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
From the time he was four years old Max Hammond was destined to paint, as he began on the walls of his home, a budding muralist. As he ran along the edges of the salt marshes of the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Charles Houghton Howard
Located in New York, NY
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the third of five children in a cultured and educated family with roots going back to the Massachusetts Bay colony. His father, John Galen Howard, was an architect who had trained at M.I.T. and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and apprenticed in Boston with Henry Hobson Richardson. In New York, the elder Howard worked for McKim, Mead and White before establishing a successful private practice. Mary Robertson Bradbury Howard, Charles’s mother, had studied art before her marriage. John Galen Howard moved his household to California in 1902 to assume the position of supervising architect of the new University of California campus at Berkeley and to serve as Professor of Architecture and the first Dean of the School of Architecture (established in 1903). The four Howard boys grew up to be artists and all married artists, leaving a combined family legacy of art making in the San Francisco Bay area that endures to this day, most notably in design, murals, and reliefs at the Coit Tower and in buildings on the Berkeley campus.
Charles Howard graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1921 as a journalism major and pursued graduate studies in English at Harvard and Columbia Universities before embarking on a two-year trip to Europe. Howard went to Europe as a would-be writer. But a near-religious experience, seeing a picture by Giorgione in a remote town outside of Venice, proved a life-altering epiphany. In his own words, “I cut the tour at once and hurried immediately back to Paris, to begin painting. I have been painting whenever I could ever since” (Charles Howard, “What Concerns Me,” Magazine of Art 39 [February 1946], p. 63). Giorgione’s achievement, in utilizing a structured and rational visual language of art to convey high emotion on canvas, instantly convinced Howard that painting, and not literature, offered the best vehicle to express what he wanted to say. Howard returned to the United States in 1925, confirmed in his intent to become an artist.
Howard settled in New York and supported himself as a painter in the decorating workshop of Louis Bouché and Rudolph Guertler, where he specialized in mural painting. Devoting spare time to his own work, he lived in Greenwich Village and immersed himself in the downtown avant-garde cultural milieu. The late 1920s and early 1930s were the years of Howard’s art apprenticeship. He never pursued formal art instruction, but his keen eye, depth of feeling, and intense commitment to the process of art making, allowed him to assimilate elements of painting intuitively from the wide variety of art that interested him. He found inspiration in the modernist movements of the day, both for their adherence to abstract formal qualities and for the cosmopolitan, international nature of the movements themselves. Influenced deeply by Surrealism, Howard was part of a group of American and European Surrealists clustered around Julien Levy. Levy opened his eponymously-named gallery in 1931, and rose to fame in January 1932, when he organized and hosted Surrealisme, the first ever exhibition of Surrealism in America, which included one work by Howard. Levy remained the preeminent force in advocating for Surrealism in America until he closed his gallery in 1949. Howard’s association with Levy in the early 1930s confirms the artist’s place among the avant-garde community in New York at that time.
In 1933, Howard left New York for London. It is likely that among the factors that led to the move were Howard’s desire to be a part of an international art community, as well as his marriage to English artist, Madge Knight...
Category
20th Century American Modern Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Graphite
Still Life with Squash
By Amy Weiskopf
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): A. WEISKOPF
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Oil, Linen
Ford Model V, New York
By Len Prince
Located in Santa Monica, CA
signed by artist
Category
Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Saving Gaia III
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
Deborah Ballard is best known for conceiving of figures and groupings of figures who relate to one another (and the viewer) through their body language, relationships and dialogue. S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Bronze
The Intruder
By Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait was born at Livesey Hall, near Liverpool, England, and began his career as a clerk at the gallery of Agnew & Zanetti’s Repository of Arts in Manchester. While...
Category
19th Century American Realist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Rumors"
By Milt Kobayashi
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
There is a quiet sophistication in Milt Kobayashi’s painted canvases, summoning a pensive, ethereal feeling in the viewer. Kobayashi’s subjects are people from another time and place...
Category
2010s Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Benchmark
By William Wegman
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 7
"Benchwork" is part of Wegman's artistic exploration of photography and staged scenes. The artwork is representative of Wegman's distinctive approach to photography, wh...
Category
2010s Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Pigment
Still Life with Polykleitian Head and Ancathus
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
SAPERE AUDE. Dare to be wise. Immanuel Kant’s directive is embodied in the work of David Ligare. For thirty-five years, Ligare has dedicated his work to ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape with an Owl (ATHENE NOCTUA) (Owl of Athena)
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed (LR): L; on verso: D. Ligare/ 2024
Category
2010s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sedona Crossing"
By Claudia Hartley
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
"The comment I hear most often about my paintings is 'happy'". I've loved art all of my life and it warms my heart to know that I'm able to pass that love and joy on to others. I use...
Category
2010s Impressionist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
On Set
By William Wegman
Located in New York, NY
This piece is offered framed. The frame size is 23 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches (59.7 x 77.5 cm); the image image size is 20 3/4 x 27 3/4 inches (52.7 x 70.5 cm)
Edition of 7
"Benchwork"...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Archival Pigment
Coffee Table in Pop-Art Form
By John Gwinn
Located in West Chester, PA
Two mahogany boards joined together by polychrome painted blocks in a whimsical pop-art design. Signed by the artist "John Gwinn 1969".
Category
1960s Vintage Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Mahogany
"First day in Office" President John F. Kennedy, The Oval Office, Washington D.C
By Jacques Lowe
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jacques Lowe, (born Jan. 24, 1930, Cologne, Ger.—died May 12, 2001, New York, N.Y.) (born Jan. 24, 1930, Cologne, Ger.—died May 12, 2001, New York, N.Y.) German-born American photogr...
Category
20th Century Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Arm
By Frantisek Kupka
Located in New York, NY
Pastel on paper
13 x 19 in. (33 x 48.2 cm.)
Signed (at lower right): Kupka
EX COLL.: private collection, St. Louis; to Howard Baer, 1972; [Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer Galleries,
New York...
Category
20th Century Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Delightful Desert Day"
By Claudia Hartley
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
"The comment I hear most often about my paintings is 'happy'". I've loved art all of my life and it warms my heart to know that I'm able to pass that love and joy on to others. I use color and shape to capture the wonders of the world around me. Her love affair with art began as a child, when her favorite present was a new box of Crayola crayons...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Acrylic
Lotus
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Vintage Hand Colored Albumen Print
Category
Late 19th Century Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Astarte
By Anita Huffington
Located in Dallas, TX
"The Phoenician goddess of fertility and sexual love, she is also regarded as a moon goddess."
Quote from the monograph "Anita Huffington," Photographs by David Finn...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Bronze
Chestnut Racehorse with a Jockey Up On a Training Strap
By Henry H. Cross
Located in New York, NY
It was Henry Cross's portraits of horses belonging to the prominent breeders and trainers of the second half of the nineteenth century that won the artist renown as an animal painter. Born and raised in upstate New York, Cross's proficiency in both drafting and caricature was revealed while he was still a student at the Binghamton Academy, New York. In 1852, when he was only fifteen years old, Cross joined a traveling circus that took him to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and to the first of many Indian encampments that he would draw upon for subject matter throughout his career. Biographers differ as to the year Cross left for Europe, however, he was in Paris from 1852 to 1853 or 1854, where he studied with Rosa Bonheur, a highly esteemed French painter of horses. Upon Cross's return to the United States he was commissioned to paint the studs of wealthy horsemen, including those of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Robert Bonner, the owner-publisher of The New York Ledger, and "Copper King" Marcus Daly, whose 18,000 acre stock farm was reputed to be the greatest and most valuable horse ranch in the world.
Although Cross received the highest pay of any equine artist of his day (up to $35,000. for one order, according to The Horse Review of April 10, 1918, p. 328), he frequently joined traveling circuses and painted the locales where they visited. He also painted portraits of notable contemporaries, such as President Abraham Lincoln, ex-president Ulysses S. Grant, King Edward VII of England, W. F. "Buffalo Bill...
Category
19th Century American Realist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare Pair of Mahogany Chippendale Carved Side Chair
Located in West Chester, PA
Carved shells and volutes with rare pierced double hearts in the splat. Cabriole legs with acanthus carved knees terminating in ball and claw feet. Philadelphia.
Category
18th Century American Chippendale Antique Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Mahogany
Survival Does Not Lie In The Heavens
By Dario Robleto
Located in Houston, TX
Dario Robleto "Survival Does Not Lie In The Heavens", 2012
Digital inkjet print mounted on Sintra, ed. 5
Triptych: left 32 7/8 x 32 7/8 inches, middle 47 7/8 x 47 7/8; right 32 7/8...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Digital Pigment
St. Gerome - Holy Turk
By Barnaby Fitzgerald
Located in Dallas, TX
A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking degree in Urbino. He received a BFA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Birch, Egg Tempera
Smith College
By Alfred Eisenstaedt 1
Located in New York, NY
This vintage gelatin silver print is signed, titled, and dated by the artist on verso, with artist stamp.
Category
1930s Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Spill (The Fall)
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Street Scene: "King George Dies"
By Thomas Fransioli
Located in New York, NY
Fransioli was born in Seattle, Washington, and received a degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1930. He worked with John Russell Pope on plans for the exhibition galleries at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which he pinpointed as the beginning of his interest in painting. World War II interrupted a promising career in architecture. Fransioli served in the Pacific Theatre from 1943 until 1946, and was among the first American soldiers to survey Hiroshima after the atomic bomb’s detonation in August 1945. He returned to civilian life and took up painting, basing himself in Boston, but working up and down the eastern seaboard.
Thomas Fransioli’s cityscapes are crisp and tidy. Buildings stand in bold outline, their forms squarely defined by stark light and long shadows. Saturated color permeates every corner of his canvases, from vibrant oranges and greens to smoky terra cottas and granites. Even the trees that line Fransioli’s streets, parks, and squares are sharp and angular, exactly like those in an architect’s elevation rendering. But Fransioli’s cities often lack one critical feature: people. His streets are largely deserted, save for parked cars and an occasional black cat scurrying across the pavement. People make rare appearances in Fransioli’s compositions, and never does the entropy of a crowd overwhelm their prevailing sense of order and precision. People are implied in a Fransioli painting, but their physical presence would detract from the scene’s bleak and surreal beauty.
Magic Realism neatly characterizes Fransioli’s artistic viewpoint. The term was first broadly applied to contemporary American art in the 1943 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, American Realists and Magic Realists. As exhibition curator Dorothy Miller noted in her foreword to the catalogue, Magic Realism was a “widespread but not yet generally recognized trend in contemporary American art…. It is limited, in the main, to pictures of sharp focus and precise representation, whether the subject has been observed in the outer world—realism, or contrived by the imagination—magic realism.” In his introductory essay, Lincoln Kirstein took the concept a step further: “Magic realists try to convince us that extraordinary things are possible simply by painting them as if they existed.”
This is Fransioli, in a nutshell. His cityscapes exist in time and space, but certainly not in the manner in which he portrays them.
Fransioli—and other Magic Realists of his time—was also the heir to Precisionism, spawned from Cubism and Futurism after the Great War and popularized in the 1920s and early 1930s. While Fransioli may not have aspired to celebrate the Machine Age, heavy industry, and skyscrapers in the same manner as Charles Sheeler, his compositions tap into the same rigid gridwork of the urban landscape that was first codified by the Precisionists.
During the 1950s, Fransioli was represented by the progressive Margaret Brown...
Category
20th Century American Realist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled #2, Guild Hall
By Laura Letinsky
Located in New York, NY
Laura Letinsky
Untitled #2, Guild Hall, 2013
Archival pigment print
Edition of 7
Image: 47 5/8 x 37 3/8 inches
Paper: 57 5/8 x 48 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sunset Grip
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
Category
20th Century American Modern Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
Still Life with Figs, Pomegranate and Rose
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
SAPERE AUDE. Dare to be wise. Immanuel Kant’s directive is embodied in the work of David Ligare. For forty years, Ligare has dedicated his work to classi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lean To
By Martin Puryear
Located in San Francisco, CA
Edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Etching
Elizabeth (Seated Figure with Cat)
By Franz Kline
Located in New York, NY
EX COLL.: the artist; to I. David Orr (1904–1997), Long Island, New York; to his estate, 1997 until the present
Originally trained as a figurative painter, Kline was an exceptional ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink
"Dawn Answers"
By Ron Hicks
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1965, Ron Hicks was an avid artist from an early age. Hicks began his formal studies in art at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio. Hicks contin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Dakota Rose"
By Tim Rees
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Timothy Rees was fascinated with drawing throughout his youth and after high school pursued a degree in animation. The pull to painting portraits and figures was strong, however, leading him to learn the craft in the open studios of the Palette and Chisel...
Category
2010s Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Linen, Oil
Mid-Summer
Located in Dallas, TX
Lloyd Goff studied at the Art Students League, and has work in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and T...
Category
1930s American Modern Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Script: Column 9
By Elizabeth Turk
Located in New York, NY
Born in Pasadena and raised in Orange County, Elizabeth Turk earned her M.F.A. at the Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
In Turk’s work, the shape of the line is created by extreme loss. That is, the reductive process of carving creates a positive, fragile form in which the absence of the original material is a focus. Turk encourages us to consider how nature has shaped these organic materials long before the artist’s manipulation of them into new forms. When viewed as components in a complex natural system, their singular beauty and inherent mystery is revealed. Turk compels us to view works of art not only as objects to be coveted and collected, but also as expressions of the natural world and our evolving relation to it.
A recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2010), a Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship (2010), and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2011), Turk is internationally recognized for transforming her signature medium of marble into strikingly intricate objects that defy convention and challenge our preconceptions of what marble can do. Through the use of electric grinders, dental tools...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Marble
SOLIS (Sunlight)
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed (LR): L; on verso: D. Ligare/ 2024
Category
2010s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portraits: Alba
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Alex Katz uses outline drawings, called “cartoons”, as templates to transfer full size images onto the canvas prior to painting. Rendered in red chalk or charcoal on brown paper, th...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Etching
On the Edge of Landscape
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (Edward M. Gomez, "Futuristic Forms Frolic Under Eerie Texan Skies...
Category
1990s Surrealist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jardin des Tuileries, Paris
By Edmund Quincy
Located in New York, NY
Signed (lower right): Quincy
Category
20th Century American Realist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 665.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 665.
Ass; walking bareback; a boy riding Jennie.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887
Image size 9 x 12 1/2 inches
Muybridge c...
Category
1880s Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Photographic Paper
Blow Up, Untitled 19
By Ori Gersht
Located in New York, NY
From the series Blow Up
Category
2010s Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rolling Stock Series (For Chuck)
By Robert Cottingham
Located in New York, NY
Robert Cottingham's Rolling Stock series is a significant part of his artistic portfolio, focusing on railroad imagery. The series features hand-colored etchings, collographs, and mo...
Category
1990s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Aquatint
Forgotten Boundary
By Allison Gildersleeve
Located in Dallas, TX
In her work, Allison Gildersleeve addresses the theme of memory, exploring the phenomenon of past and present becoming collapsed or entwined by the emotional experience.
Gildersle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Scissortails
By David Everett
Located in Dallas, TX
David Everett was born in Beaumont, Texas, and received both his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from The University of Texas in Austin. In 1978, Everett was awarded a Faculty Travel Grant from So...
Category
1990s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Toothbrush Variant II
By Robert Bechtle
Located in San Francisco, CA
Robert Bechtle was born in 1932 in San Francisco and raised in Alameda. He studied graphic design and painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, earning his BF...
Category
1960s Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Lithograph
Small Settee in the Neoclassical Taste
Located in New York, NY
Small Settee in the neoclassical taste
Boston, Massachusetts (active 1804–17), about 1810
Mahogany (secondary woods: ash)
Measures: 35 1/8 in. high, 59 3/4 in. long, 19 1/8 in. deep
Although the diminutive scale of this settee places it in a unique category, the piece itself partakes of a vocabulary that is common in Boston furniture of the Late Federal period. Its sabre legs, for example, as seen straight on from the left and right ends, are closely related to the legs, as seen from the front, on a group of chairs of undisputed Boston origin, including a spectacular armchair with scrolled arms (see Stuart P. Feld, Boston in the Age of Neo-Classicism, 1810–1840, exhib. cat. [New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1999], p. 37 no. 6 illus. in color), as well as a number of side chairs, including a set made for Nathan Appleton (see Page Talbott, “Boston Empire Furniture, Part I,” The Magazine Antiques, CVII [May 1975], p. 887 fig. 12). In all, the legs are ornamented with two bold, somewhat flattened reeds set between corner beads, a pattern which is repeated here on the front and end seat rails as well. The superb quality of the piece is further demonstrated in the finely drawn profile of the arms, as well as the delicately bulbous surface of the fronts of the arms and legs. As in the best of the related chairs, the sabre legs end in delicately carved paw feet. The added refinement of the beautifully carved rosettes at both the fronts and backs of the arms suggests that the piece may have been designed to be used in the round.
Stylistically harmonious with these pieces is also a group of larger sofas with frontally set sabre legs and scrolled arms (see Page Talbott, “Seating Furniture in Boston, 1810–1835,” The Magazine Antiques, CXXXIX [May 1991], p. 963 pl. 11) that represent an indigenously Boston form. Although none of the furniture in this group has been effectively attributed, they can certainly be related to various Boston card tables...
Category
Early 19th Century American Neoclassical Antique Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Wood
Clearing
By John Moore
Located in New York, NY
John Moore was born in St. Louis, MO in 1941. He received a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis (1966) and an MFA from Yale University (1968). Over a career spanning forty ye...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishing Camp on the Labrador Coast
By William Bradford
Located in New York, NY
In 1852, twenty-nine year old William Bradford was a failing shopkeeper in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. With a wife and child at home, Bradford, by his own admission, “spent too much time in painting to succeed” in business. Rescued from insolvency by his well-to-do in-laws, this is not the beginning of a narrative that generally leads to a happy ending. Not so with Bradford, who ultimately found international fame and fortune as a painter of arctic seascapes and dramatic marine paintings.
William Bradford, the artist, was a lineal descendant of the 17th-century Separatist leader William Bradford, a founder of the Plymouth Plantation, signer of the Mayflower Compact and Governor of the Plymouth Colony. Our Bradford born to a New Bedford ship outfitter in Fairhaven, Massachusetts By the nineteenth century, this line of Bradfords were Quakers, living on the tract purchased nearly two centuries earlier by their pilgrim ancestor. Fairhaven, across the mouth of the Acushnet River from the whaling center of New Bedford was described by a New York journalist in 1857 as “the Brooklyn of New Bedford” (Home Journal, January 3, 1857). Young Bradford displayed an early predilection for the arts, but his Quaker parents were disinclined to support this particular pursuit. After working in his father’s business and then for a dry goods merchant in New Bedford, by 1849 Bradford had set up in New Bedford as a “merchant tailor” offering outfits for “those going to California,” “seamen’s clothing,” custom-tailored “piece goods...
Category
19th Century American Realist Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
Three Flowers
By Joseph Stella
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Stella was a visionary artist who painted what he saw, an idiosyncratic and individual experience of his time and place. Stella arrived in New York in 1896, part of a wave of ...
Category
20th Century American Modern Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Color Forms (B)
By Leon Polk Smith
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
Category
1970s Color-Field Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Screen
"Somewhere... Somehow"
By Ron Hicks
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1965, Ron Hicks was an avid artist from an early age. Hicks began his formal studies in art at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio. Hicks contin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
No. 3 -1960
By Stanley Twardowicz
Located in New York, NY
Signed (on stretcher): Stanley Twardowicz
Stanley Twardowicz (1917–2008), a one-time orphan, Golden Gloves boxer, professional baseball player and auto worker, emerged from a hards...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Enamel
Spill (Laocoön)
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Graceland Mansion
By Jennifer Bartlett
Located in Houston, TX
Jennifer Bartlett
Graceland Mansions, 1978-79
Drypoint, aquatint, silkscreen, woodcut, and lithograph on J. Green Cold Press paper and Rives BFK paper
24 x 120 inches, unframed
Ed...
Category
20th Century Modern Adaa Art Dealers Association Of America
Materials
Etching, Lithograph, Screen, Woodcut, Drypoint, Aquatint
Domed Chagrin Casket
Located in West Chester, PA
Very rare wood, iron and sharkskin domed casket on ball feet. Ornamented with iron strap work and double hasp lock. Silk damask interior.
Ex collection of...
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