We’ve loaned our Leon Kelly drawing is on view in the Palmer Museum of Art’s Suspended Contemplation: Drawings and Watercolors by Leon Kelly.  Kelly’s work is highly influenced by his close contact with the Surrealist movement.  Untitled (to Hayter), came to us from the Stanley William Hayter’s estate.  Hayter was part of the Surrealist movement in Paris in the 1930s and it is no surprise that he and Kelly became friends while Hayter was working in this country in the 1940s.  This fine, enigmatic drawing speaks well to their mutual concerns and friendship.

Suspended Contemplation is on view through August 11, 2013.

Leon Kelly, Untitled (to Stanley William Hayter) 1948, graphite

We hope you will visit us at the beautiful Philadelphia Antiques Show, a benefit for Penn Medicine.
Our booth (#12) will be installed with excellent Modernist works by Morris Blackburn, Stanley William Hayter, Judith Rothschild, Sanford Greenberg, Benton Spruance, Dox Thrash, Paul Keene and Hans Moller.
Also on view will be works by Philadelphia artists included in the Barnes Foundation collection:  Morris Berd, Angleo Pinto, Salvatore Pinto, Hugh Mesibov and Abraham Hankins.

Gloucester, MA Sept 9, 1946

They Seek a City is the Art Institute of Chicago’s first exhibition to focus on the art produced by the diverse communities that migrated to Chicago in waves during the first half of the 20th Century. Highlighting this diverse yet interwoven artistic production, They Seek a City includes paintings, works on paper, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts.  Included is an impression of Dox Thrash’s Georgia Cotton Crop, c. 1944-45 (Ittmann #114).  We’ve got a very beautiful, richly inked impression of Georgia Cotton Crop.  It is part of a fairly large body of work where Thrash responds to the rural life he left and the landscape of Georgia.  They Seek a City is on view at the Art Institute of Chicago through June 2, 2013.

Paper Space is an exhibition of Contemporary prints and works on paper.  The exhibition explores the range of practices among eight artists working in or near Philadelphia.  What unites these artists is a keen understanding of the materials they’ve chosen–inks, paint, a host of papers; and a willingness to exploit those materials, and, in the cases of Ryan Parker and Christopher Hartshorne, push the limits of scale.  These works are particularly well suited to CAC’s expansive gallery.  The exhibition is curated by Dolan/Maxwell’s Ron Rumford and it is on view from March 8 to April 26, 2013.  Community Arts Center,  is at 414 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA 19086.

Ryan Parker’s Passages

An important exhibition of works on canvas and paper dating from 1939- 1949 is on view from February 15  thru April 21, 2013 at PAFA.  The exhibition is a collaboration between the PAFA Alumni Sales Gallery and Dolan/Maxwell.  PAFA is at 118 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, hours are Tuesday – Saturday 10-5 and Sunday noon – 5.

We are please to be exhibiting at the Metro Show, January 24-27, 2013
Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th St. New York.  Come and see exciting new work on paper by Steven Ford, Donald Teskey, Ryan Parker, Nona Hershey, Kip Deeds, Martin Puryear, David Shapiro, Tom Nozkowski and Cheryl Warrick.

Works by Modernists include a large, rare 1944 canvas by Judith Rothschild to be seen in the 1940s-1950s context of works on paper and canvas by Stanley William Hayter, Dox Thrash, Benton Spruance, Hugh Mesibov, and Harry Brodsky, Morris Blackburn, Paul Keene, Sanford Greenberg and Hans Moller.

Come see us and all of the above at the Metro Show.

We are pleased to be exhibiting again at the IFPDA sponsored INK.   INK is a Modern and Contemporary art on paper fair of 14 IFPDA dealers.  The setting iin perhaps the most welcoming of all the Art Basel Miami Beach satellite art fairs.  We exhibit in apartments that open onto a charming courtyard with palm trees, tropical flowers and reflecting pool.  The pace is relaxed and the quality of the art superb.

We have Tom Nozkowski’s new etchings along with Contmporary works by David Shapiro, Cheryl Warrick, Donald Teskey, Steven Ford, Ron Adams, Lynne Clibanoff, Ryan Parker, David Kelso, Harvey Quaytman, Peter Brooke, Charles White, Nona Hershey, and Kip Deeds.  Works by Modern artists include Morris Blackburn, Dox Thrash, Benton Spruance, William Fett, Judy Blum, Paul Keene, Tom Lias, Stanley William Hayter, John Paul Jones, Judith Rothschild, Hugh Mesibov, Harry Brodsky, and John Wilson.

Thurs, Nov 1, 2012, 6:30-9pm (Preview)  *** revised schedule due to hurricane Sandy
Fri, Nov 2, 2012, 12-8pm
Sat, Nov 3, 2012, 12-8pm
Sun, Nov 4, 2012, 12-6pm

We will exhibit Modern & Contemporary works on paper by Morris Blackburn, Judy Blum, Harry Brodsky, Werner Drewes, William Fett, Perle Fine, Steven Ford, Donald Forsythe, Abraham Hankins, Stanley William Hayter, John Paul Jones, Thomas Lias, Paul Keene, David Kelso, Sam Maitin, Hugh Mesibov, Ryan Parker, Helen Philips, Judith Rothschild, David Shapiro, Benton Spruance, Donald Teskey, Dox Thrash, Shelley Thorstensen, Cheryl Warrick
We will also have Stanley William Hayter’s collection of prints and drawings by artists who were friends or worked with him at Atelier 17 in New York in the 1940s. There are over 30 artists represented in the collection, some well known and many not at all known. The group speaks to the mutual respect that developed between Hayter and the many artists who sought his guidance at Atelier 17.

Stanley William Hayter, Lutteurs

Steven Ford’s Untitled 2012 is included in Centennial Juried Exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum.

In November 2011, the Delaware Art Museum began celebrating 100 years of supporting the visual arts in its community through its collection, exhibitions, and programs. To commemorate the Museum’s past annual exhibitions of painting and crafts—combined to form the Biennial in 1989—a juried Centennial will be on view from October 2012 through January 2013. The exhibition will feature a variety of media—drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, video, and installation—and include artists living either within the State of Delaware or within 100 miles of the Museum.  John B Ravenal, the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is juror.

Steven Ford, Untitled 2011, linocut, collagraph & collage

28th Annual Cleveland Fine Print Fair

Sept. 28-30, 2012

The fair is sponsored by the Print Club of Cleveland, a non-profit adjunct organization dedicated to supporting the Cleveland Museum of Art’s print collection.

We will exhibit the newest drawings by Cleveland artist, Tom Roese, along with Contemporary works on paper by Cheryl Warrick, David Shapiro, Shelley Thorstensen, Martin Puryear, Donald Teskey, Steven Ford, Ryan Parker, Don Forsythe, and David Kelso.

We’ll also have works by Modernist artists Paul Keene, Benton Spruance, Dox Thrash, Stanley William Hayter, Judith Rothschild, Morris Blackburn and Tom Lias.

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