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Art Dealers Association of America

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA)
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.
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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 Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Oil

Misderden Park, England (7-00-1c-5-c)
By Lynn Geesaman
Located in New York, NY
Throughout her career, Geesaman photographed public parks and formal gardens in the United States and Europe, focusing on the intersection of nature and artifice in the cultivated la...
Category

Early 2000s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Archival Pigment

Breakfast with Studio Ringl & Pit 1932
By Anastasia Samoylova
Located in New York, NY
In Anastasia Samoylova's "Breakfast With" series, photo books are splayed open and the iconic images therein mingle with the first meal of the day, reading as affectionate homages to...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Digital Pigment

Parc, Chateau de Canon, France (5-95-48c-10)
By Lynn Geesaman
Located in New York, NY
Throughout her career, Geesaman photographed public parks and formal gardens in the United States and Europe, focusing on the intersection of nature and artifice in the cultivated la...
Category

Early 2000s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Archival Pigment

Summer Maple
By Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Located in New York, NY
A drypoint and aquatint by artist Sylvia Plimack Mangold.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Drypoint

Breakfast with Paul Outerbridge 1937
By Anastasia Samoylova
Located in New York, NY
In Anastasia Samoylova's "Breakfast With" series, photo books are splayed open and the iconic images therein mingle with the first meal of the day, reading as affectionate homages to...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Digital Pigment

Breakfast with Walker Evans 1941
By Anastasia Samoylova
Located in New York, NY
In Anastasia Samoylova's "Breakfast With" series, photo books are splayed open and the iconic images therein mingle with the first meal of the day, reading as affectionate homages to...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Digital Pigment

Breakfast with Alexander Rodchenko 1934
By Anastasia Samoylova
Located in New York, NY
In Anastasia Samoylova's "Breakfast With" series, photo books are splayed open and the iconic images therein mingle with the first meal of the day, reading as affectionate homages to...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Digital Pigment

Bar Harbor
Located in New York, NY
Edition: 5 or less. One of possibly 3 variants
Category

20th Century American Modern Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Monotype

UNTITLED (from the KINETIC PORTFOLIO)
By Eusebio Sempere
Located in New York, NY
serigraph, Edition of 100 image of abstract flower from KINETIC PORTFOLIO
Category

1970s Abstract Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Screen

Untitled (The Road to Swindon)
By Colin Hunt
Located in New York, NY
Colin Hunt (b. 1973) is a Brooklyn, NY-based artist working primarily in egg tempera and watercolor. His recent series of landscapes of the Avebury stone circle outside of London are...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Watercolor

Marina Grande, Capri
By Charles Temple Dix
Located in New York, NY
Charles Temple Dix was born in Albany, New York, the youngest son of the distinguished statesman and soldier, General John Adams Dix. Having already visited Europe as a child, Dix re...
Category

19th Century American Realist Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Breakfast with Stephen Shore 1977
By Anastasia Samoylova
Located in New York, NY
In Anastasia Samoylova's "Breakfast With" series, photo books are splayed open and the iconic images therein mingle with the first meal of the day, reading as affectionate homages to...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Digital Pigment

Untitled (Airport Paris)
By Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Located in New York, NY
Peter Fischli / David Weiss Untitled (Airport Paris) 2008 Offset lithograph on three sheets Each sheet: 51 1/4 x 32 5/8 inches; 130 x 83 cm Edition of 100 Signed and numbered in ink ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Lithograph

The Japanese Corner
By Elliott Daingerfield
Located in New York, NY
A child of the American South, Elliott Daingerfield was born in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where his father, C...
Category

19th Century American Impressionist Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Still Life with Figs on Cloth
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

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
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 Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fullmoon@Beacon
By Darren Almond
Located in New York, NY
Darren Almond Fullmoon@Beacon 1999-2004 C-print mounted on aluminum in artist’s frame 48 x 48 inches; 122 x 122 cm Edition of 5 Signed in ink (verso) Available from Matthew Marks G...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

C Print

John F. Kennedy International Airport
By Marc Trujillo
Located in New York, NY
Every detail in Trujillo’s fast-paced, consumer-driven environments is the result of slow painting, of careful and keen observation, both analytic and synthetic. Trujillo depicts his...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Oil, Panel

Like Ice in the Sunshine No. 13
By Simone Rosenbauer
Located in New York, NY
15 x 15 archival pigment print (image size 14 x14 inches) Edition #8/8 Signed, titled, dated and editioned on frame label provided. Framing available at an additional cost. In the latest series by Simone Rosenbauer, entitled Like Ice in the Sunshine...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Archival Pigment

Damme, Belgium (4-04-5c-4)
By Lynn Geesaman
Located in New York, NY
Throughout her career, Geesaman photographed public parks and formal gardens in the United States and Europe, focusing on the intersection of nature and artifice in the cultivated la...
Category

Early 2000s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Archival Pigment

Absence No. 13
By Denis Darzacq
Located in New York, NY
In his "Absence" series, Denis Darzacq’s mines his own work for raw material. By cutting and tearing recent photographic prints of his own work, he generated a wealth of formal mater...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Digital Pigment

Absence No. 12
By Denis Darzacq
Located in New York, NY
In his "Absence" series, Denis Darzacq’s mines his own work for raw material. By cutting and tearing recent photographic prints of his own work, he generated a wealth of formal mater...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Digital Pigment

FEMME NUE ET JOUEUSE DE FLUTE
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
stamped on back: Le Vent d'Arles and SPADEM 1975 - Printed in France Edition sticker on back reads: No. 1815
Category

Early 20th Century Expressionist Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Color

Grey Leaves
By Gary Hume
Located in New York, NY
Gary Hume Grey Leaves 2004 Screen print in 4 colours with one glaze, printed on 400gsm Somerset Tub Sheet: 28 x 23 inches; 71 x 59 cm Frame: 30 3/8 x 25 1/...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Screen, Glaze

At the Spring
By Joshua Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Joshua Shaw was a farmer’s son, born in Billingborough, Lincolnshire, and orphaned at the age of seven. After a boyhood of privation, he tried a number of occupations, until he finally apprenticed to a sign painter and found his métier. Shaw went to Manchester to study art, and by 1802 was in Bath, painting landscapes. In that year he began to exhibit his work at the Royal Academy in London. Essentially self-taught, Shaw achieved an impressive level of competence and versatility, producing portraits, floral compositions, still lifes, landscapes, and, cattle pieces. Shaw continued to send works for exhibition at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and the Suffolk Street Gallery, all in London, until 1841. (Although Shaw is regularly mentioned and frequently illustrated in a host of general books on American art history, as well as included in numerous historical survey exhibitions, the only monographic study of this artist is Miriam Carroll Woods, “Joshua Shaw [1776–1860]: A Study of the Artist and his Paintings” [M.A. thesis, University of California at Los Angeles, 1971]. Apart from short biographical sketches in various dictionaries and museum collection catalogues, the two most interesting references, both contemporary, are John Sartain’s personal recollections in The Reminiscences of a Very Old Man, 1808–1897 [1899; reprint 1969] and an article in Scientific American from August 7, 1869, “Joshua Shaw, Artist and Inventor.” The article quotes extensively from an autobiographical document in the possession of Shaw’s grandson that Shaw prepared for William Dunlap...
Category

19th Century American Realist Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Breakfast with Saul Leiter 1959
By Anastasia Samoylova
Located in New York, NY
In Anastasia Samoylova's "Breakfast With" series, photo books are splayed open and the iconic images therein mingle with the first meal of the day, reading as affectionate homages to...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Digital Pigment

Like Ice in the Sunshine II (L.A.) No. 54
By Simone Rosenbauer
Located in New York, NY
33.5 x 33.5 incg archival pigment print, framed to 34.75 x 34.75 inches, edition 8. Signed, titled, dated and editioned on frame label provided. In the latest series by Simone Rosen...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Archival Pigment

69th Parallel 2
By Darren Almond
Located in New York, NY
Darren Almond 69th Parallel 2 2005 Gelatin silver print mounted on aluminum in artist's frame 37 x 47 inches; 94 x 120 cm Edition of 5 Signed in ink (verso) Available from Matthe...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled (The Avenue of Stones)
By Colin Hunt
Located in New York, NY
Colin Hunt (b. 1973) is a Brooklyn, NY-based artist working primarily in egg tempera and watercolor. His recent series of landscapes of the Avebury stone circle outside of London are...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Egg Tempera

San Gio, Como
By Eleanor Parke Custis
Located in New York, NY
Eleanor Park Custis painted scenes as varied as the artist's travels: from her hometown of Washington, D.C., to the coastal towns of New England; from the prosperous fishing villages of Brittany, to Venice and the mountain villages and lakes of northern Italy. While Custis's subjects are diverse, her style is consistent and distinctive throughout this body of work. Her use of flat areas of color delineated by dark contours is reminiscent of the aesthetics of woodblock printing. Like many artists of the day, she was profoundly influenced by Japanese woodblock prints, and her adaptation of the aesthetic by 1924 led to her most productive artistic period. Eleanor Custis hailed from a socially prominent Washington, D.C., family. She was distantly related to Martha Custis Washington, America's first First Lady. Custis began three years of formal art training in the autumn of 1915 at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, and was guided and inspired by Impressionist artist Edmund C. Tarbell, one of the Ten American Painters, who became the Corcoran School's principal in 1918. Custis exhibited widely in many of the Washington art societies and clubs for much of her career. She was also a frequent exhibitor at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City; her last one-woman show there was in April 1945. Custis's mature style emerged in scenes of the streets, wharves, and drydocks of seacoast villages from Maine to Massachusetts, which she visited during the summers of 1924 and 1925. She was working in Gloucester, Massachusetts in August 1924, and painted several gouaches of the town's wharves and winding streets, including In Gloucester Harbor and At the Drydock, Gloucester. During her stay, Custis may have met Jane Peterson or at least must have seen her work, the best of which was executed in Gloucester during the preceding ten years. The similarity between their styles is unmistakable, but, while it may be tempting to suggest that Custis was influenced by Peterson during her summer in Gloucester, the connection between their work is probably more a case of shared aesthetics and common European influences. Custis expanded her subject repertoire with three trips to Europe between 1926 and 1929, and was inspired by the Old World charm of Holland, northern France, Switzerland, and Italy, leading to such works as New Kirk, Delft, Holland, Market Day in Quimper, At the Foot of the Matterhorn, and The Town Square, Varenna. A Mediterranean cruise in 1934 introduced her to the Near East, and the bustling, colorful streets and bazaars of Cairo, captured in works like A Street in Cairo, Egypt and A Moroccan Jug...
Category

20th Century American Realist Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Paper, Gouache

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 Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Paper, Crayon

Peek-a-Boo
By Seymour Joseph Guy
Located in New York, NY
In the latter half of the nineteenth century and into the first decade of the twentieth, New York City art aficionados could count on finding recent work of Seymour Joseph Guy hanging on the walls of the city’s major galleries. Primarily a genre artist, but also a portraitist, between 1859 and 1908 Guy showed more than seventy works at the National Academy of Design. From 1871 to 1903 he contributed over seventy times to exhibitions at the Century Club. From 1864 to 1887, he sent about forty pictures to the Brooklyn Art Association. A good number of these works were already privately owned; they served as advertisements for other pictures that were available for sale. Some pictures were shown multiple times in the same or different venues. Guy was as easy to find as his canvases were omnipresent. Though he lived at first in Brooklyn with his family and then in New Jersey, from 1863 to his death in 1910 he maintained a studio at the Artist’s Studio Building at 55 West 10th Street, a location that was, for much of that period, the center of the New York City art world. Guy’s path to a successful career as an artist was by no means smooth or even likely. Born in Greenwich, England, he was orphaned at the age of nine. His early interest in art was discouraged by his legal guardian, who wanted a more settled trade for the young man. Only after the guardian also died was Guy free to pursue his intention of becoming an artist. The details of Guy’s early training in art are unclear. His first teacher is believed to have been Thomas Buttersworth...
Category

19th Century American Realist Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Prefatio, from the Graphic Tectonics Series
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
Edition: 34. This impression is one of only two proofs printed on graph paper. Printed by Reinhard Schumann, Hickory, North Carolina. Reproduced in Formulation: Articulation (portfol...
Category

20th Century American Modern Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Screen

Parc de Sceaux, France (10-97-7c-8)
By Lynn Geesaman
Located in New York, NY
Throughout her career, Geesaman photographed public parks and formal gardens in the United States and Europe, focusing on the intersection of nature and artifice in the cultivated la...
Category

Early 2000s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Archival Pigment

Breakfast with William Eggleston 1976
By Anastasia Samoylova
Located in New York, NY
In Anastasia Samoylova's "Breakfast With" series, photo books are splayed open and the iconic images therein mingle with the first meal of the day, reading as affectionate homages to...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Digital Pigment

Breakfast with Barbara Kasten 1983
By Anastasia Samoylova
Located in New York, NY
In Anastasia Samoylova's "Breakfast With" series, photo books are splayed open and the iconic images therein mingle with the first meal of the day, reading as affectionate homages to...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Digital Pigment

Untitled (Boat)
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 Modern Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Breakfast with Horst P. Horst 1939
By Anastasia Samoylova
Located in New York, NY
In Anastasia Samoylova's "Breakfast With" series, photo books are splayed open and the iconic images therein mingle with the first meal of the day, reading as affectionate homages to...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Digital Pigment

Color Squares 1
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Ellsworth Kelly Color Squares 1 2011 Five color lithograph 21 x 77 inches; 53 x 196 cm Edition of 35 Signed and numbered in graphite (lower right recto) Frame available upon request...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Lithograph

TILTING NEON COCKTAIL
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
Edition 28/50. Stainless Steel outline of cocktail glass on a black acrylic base with painted wood olive and toothpick.
Category

1980s Modern Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Stainless Steel

CHAMBERED NAUTILUS
By Julio Larraz
Located in New York, NY
Etching, aquatint and sugarlift print of a Still-Life on a table. Edition of 100.
Category

1980s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Aquatint, Etching

Untitled (Black Sea)
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 Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Woodcut

Parc de Sceaux, France (5-95-6c-9)
By Lynn Geesaman
Located in New York, NY
Throughout her career, Geesaman photographed public parks and formal gardens in the United States and Europe, focusing on the intersection of nature and artifice in the cultivated la...
Category

Early 2000s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Archival Pigment

Michael
By Gary Hume
Located in New York, NY
Gary Hume Michael 2002 Screenprint 60 1/8 x 30 inches; 153 x 76 cm Edition of 80 Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in graphite (lower recto) Frame available upon request Gary Hume...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Screen

Versailles, France (4-07-27c-12)
By Lynn Geesaman
Located in New York, NY
Throughout her career, Geesaman photographed public parks and formal gardens in the United States and Europe, focusing on the intersection of nature and artifice in the cultivated la...
Category

Early 2000s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Archival Pigment

Damme, Belgium (4-04-61c-10)
By Lynn Geesaman
Located in New York, NY
Throughout her career, Geesaman photographed public parks and formal gardens in the United States and Europe, focusing on the intersection of nature and artifice in the cultivated la...
Category

Early 2000s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Archival Pigment

Beloeil, Belgium (4-04-2c-6)
By Lynn Geesaman
Located in New York, NY
Beloeil, Belgium (4-04-2c-6), 2014 by Lynn Geesaman.
Category

Early 2000s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Archival Pigment

West 74th Street
By Frederick Brosen
Located in New York, NY
A native New Yorker, Brosen has spent a lifetime wandering its streets, discovering its long history and witnessing its constant metamorphosis. The city is his muse and his primary s...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Watercolor, Paper, Graphite

Isabella Plantation, England (4-09-23c-1)
By Lynn Geesaman
Located in New York, NY
Throughout her career, Geesaman photographed public parks and formal gardens in the United States and Europe, focusing on the intersection of nature and artifice in the cultivated la...
Category

Early 2000s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Archival Pigment

Parc de Jeurre, France (4-99-2c-2)
By Lynn Geesaman
Located in New York, NY
Throughout her career, Geesaman photographed public parks and formal gardens in the United States and Europe, focusing on the intersection of nature and artifice in the cultivated la...
Category

Early 2000s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Archival Pigment

Garden Flowers
By Charles Demuth
Located in New York, NY
Charles Demuth was one of the most complex, talented, and deeply sensitive artists of the American modern period. Whether he was painting floral still lifes, industrial landscapes, or Turkish bathhouses, art was, for Demuth, fraught with personal meaning. A fixture of the vanguard art scene in New York, Demuth navigated the currents of Modernism, producing some of the most exquisite watercolors and original oil paintings in twentieth-century American art. Demuth was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the only child of a well-to-do family. He had an awkward and introverted childhood shaped by a childhood illness, Perthes, a disease of the hip that not only left him permanently lame, but, as part of the “cure,” bedridden for two years in the care of his mother. This long period of incapacitation had a deep impact on Demuth, who came to see himself as an invalid, an outsider who was different from everyone else. It was perhaps during this period of indoor confinement that his keen interest in art developed. Several relatives on his father’s side had been amateur artists, and, following his convalescence, his mother encouraged his artistic pursuits by sending him to a local painter for instruction. The majority of his early pictures are of flowers, a subject for which Demuth maintained a lifelong passion. Following high school, Demuth enrolled at the Drexel Institute of Art in Philadelphia, a school renowned for its commercial arts program. He advanced through the program rapidly, and, in 1905, at the encouragement of his instructors, he began taking courses at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The two leading teachers then at the Academy were William Merritt Chase and Thomas Anshutz. Anshutz, himself a former student of Thomas Eakins, was well liked by his students, and is best known as the teacher of Robert Henri, John Sloan, and several of the other artists of the Ashcan School. Demuth, too, adopted a similar idiom, working in a controlled, realistic manner while at the Academy, where he remained until 1910. In 1907, Demuth made his first trip to Europe, staying in Paris. He spent time on the periphery of the art scene composed of the numerous American artists there, including John Marin and Edward Steichen. He returned to Philadelphia five months later, and immediately resumed courses at the Academy. Despite his introduction to advanced modern styles in Europe, Demuth’s work of this period retains the academic style he practiced before the trip. It wasn’t until he had summered at New Hope, Pennsylvania, in 1908 and 1911, that his style began to evolve. New Hope was a prominent American Impressionist art colony whose members were largely affiliated with the Pennsylvania Academy. Demuth dropped the conservative tone of his style and adopted a freer and more colorful palette. Although he remained based in Philadelphia, Demuth frequently went to New York during this period. Many of the same American artists of the Parisian art scene Demuth had encountered on his earlier European trip now formed the nucleus of New York’s avant-garde, which centered around Alfred Stieglitz’s 291 gallery. It wasn’t long before Demuth began to apply modernist-inspired strategies to his work. He was particularly influenced by the watercolor work of John Marin, also a former student of Anshutz, whose bold use of color in the medium Demuth freely adapted into looser washes of color. In 1912, Demuth again left for Paris, this time studying in the Académie Moderne, Académie Colorossi, and Académie Julian. In Paris Demuth met the American modernist Marsden Hartley. Hartley, a principal figure in the expatriate art circle, acted as a mentor to Demuth, and introduced him to the wide array of modern styles currently practiced in Europe. Hartley also introduced Demuth to many of the members of the Parisian avant-garde, including Gertrude Stein. Demuth was an aspiring writer, and he spent many hours in conversation with Stein. He wrote extensively during this period, and published two works shortly after his return to America. He also developed an interest in illustrating scenes from literary texts. From 1914 to 1919, Demuth produced a series of watercolors of scenes from books such as Emile Zola’s Nana and Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw. Upon his return to America, Demuth settled in New York. In 1914, Demuth had his first one-man show at Charles Daniel’s gallery, which promoted emerging modern American artists, including Man Ray, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Stuart Davis, and Max Weber. Demuth drew closer to the artistic vanguard in New York, becoming friends with many in the Stieglitz and Daniel circles, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp, Carl Van Vechten, and Edward Fiske. New York’s cosmopolitan atmosphere and active nightlife appealed greatly to Demuth. In a sketchy style well suited to watercolor, he painted many vaudeville and circus themes, as well as nightclub, café, and bathhouse scenes. Often with Duchamp, Demuth took part in an urban subculture replete with nightclubs, bars, drugs, and sexual permissiveness, which, for a homosexual artist like himself, allowed room for previously unattainable personal expression. Demuth’s pictures of sailors, bathhouses, and circus performers embody a sensual and sexual undercurrent, expressing the artist’s sense of comfort and belonging in the bohemian subculture of New York. Simultaneously, Demuth deepened his interest in floral pictures, painting these almost exclusively in watercolor. His style evolved from the broad color washes of his earlier pictures to more spare, flattened, and sinuous compositions, inspired by the drawings of Aubrey Beardsley and other artists of the Aesthetic Movement. Demuth’s flower watercolors are moody and atmospheric, sensuous and elegant, introspective and yet full of expressive power. Moreover they are beautiful, and are unequivocally among the finest still lifes in American art. Despite numerous subsequent artistic undertakings that led him in a variety of directions, Demuth never stopped painting flower pictures, ultimately adding fruits and other still-life objects to his repertoire. In 1916, Demuth began to develop a style later known as Precisionism, a form of landscape painting infused with Cubism, in which space is divided into precisely drawn geometric regions of color. Demuth first began to paint the landscape in an appropriated Cubist mode while on a trip with Hartley to Bermuda. In these early landscapes, in which the curvilinear forms of trees intersect the geometrically articulated architectural forms, Demuth explored ideas that shaped the future development of modernism in America. The full realization of Demuth’s explorations came after his return to America in 1917, when he turned his attention to industrial subjects. These works derive from a “machine aesthetic,” espoused by New York artists such as Francis Picabia, Joseph Stella, Albert Gleizes, and Duchamp, by which artists viewed machines as embodying mystical, almost religious significance as symbols of the modern world. Rather than painting the skyscrapers and bridges of New York as did most of his like-minded contemporaries, Demuth returned to his home town of Lancaster, where he painted factories and warehouses in a Precisionist idiom. The titles for these pictures are often contain literary references, which serve as clues for the viewer to aid in the decoding of the artist’s meaning. In 1923, Demuth planned a series of abstract “poster portraits” of his friends and contemporaries in the New York art and literary scene. In these “portraits,” Demuth combined text and symbolic elements to evoke the essential nature of his sitters’ distinguishing characteristics. In this fashion, he painted portraits of such artists as Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, and Arthur Dove. His most famous poster portrait, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold...
Category

20th Century American Modern Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

COSMOGONY #13
By Adriana Marmorek
Located in New York, NY
Porcelain egg inspired sculpture. From the FLOWER TO BEE exhibition, winter 2020. Included in Exhibition catalogue.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Porcelain

Distant Voices
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 Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

COSMOGONY #15
By Adriana Marmorek
Located in New York, NY
Porcelain egg inspired sculpture. From FLOWER TO BEE exhibition, Winter 2020. Included in the catalogue.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Porcelain

COSMOGONY #18
By Adriana Marmorek
Located in New York, NY
Porcelain egg inspired abstract sculpture. From FLOWER TO BEE exhibition, Winter 2019. Included in Catalogue.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Porcelain

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 Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
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 Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Oil

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