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A Century of Innovation: American Art from 1850–1950
An Exhibition and Sale A Century of Innovation: American Art from 1850–1950
Questroyal Fine Art is pleased to announce its first May exhibition, A Century of Innovation: American Art from 1850–1950. This curated Preview Days show is designed to illustrate the progression of American art from the Monday, May 17–Tuesday, May 18 Hudson River School to Modernism. Exemplary paintings from each
Opening Reception style category will be hung chronologically to provide side-by-side Wednesday, May 19 from 5–8 PM comparisons of the advancements made by American artists and to highlight those who ventured beyond their generational norm. to coincide with the American Art Fair Examples to be exhibited include works by Hudson River School pro- Springtime Gallery Walk genitors Thomas Doughty, Asher B. Durand, and Sanford Robinson The exhibition will run until June 28, 2010 Gifford; visionaries Ralph A. Blakelock, George Inness, and Winslow Homer; Impressionists Willard Metcalf and William Merritt Chase; and celebrated Modernists including Robert Henri, Thomas Hart Benton, Rockwell Kent, and Milton Avery. This booklet includes a preview of just twelve of the highlighted available works that will be included cover Willard L. Metcalf (1858–1925) among the sixty exhibited paintings. Poppy Field (Landscape at Giverny), 1886 We encourage you to visit us before heading to the auctions! (detail) Please contact us with any questions at: 212-744-3586 or gallery@questroyalfineart.com. Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880) Mountain Lake Oil on canvas 1 12 /8 x 10 inches Signed lower right: S R Gifford left Thomas Moran (1837–1926) Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904) Nutting, Autumn, 1864 Newburyport, Massachusetts, ca. 1880–1890 Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 1 3 3 5 16 /8 x 20 /16 inches 10 /8 x 20 /16 inches Signed and dated lower right: THOS MORAN 1864. left John William Casilear (1811–1893) Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837–1908) Genesee Valley, 1870 A Walk by the Water, 1866 Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 1 1 1 25 /4 x 45 inches 10 /8 x 20 /16 inches Monogrammed and dated lower right: JWC · 70· Signed lower left: A.T. Bricher./66 George Inness (1825–1894) right John Francis Murphy (1853–1921) Monte Lucia, Perugia, 1873 The Meadow Farm Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 7 3 3 3 13 /8 x 19 /4 inches 24 /4 x 33 /4 inches Signed lower right: G. Inness; inscribed on verso label: Signed lower left: J. Francis Murphy – 3 1 No. 161 13 /4 x 19 /2 1873 Monte Lucia, Perugia Italy
Willard L. Metcalf (1858–1925) Poppy Field (Landscape at Giverny), 1886 Oil on canvas 5 5 10 /8 x 18 /16 inches Signed and dated lower left: W. L. Metcalf /86; signed and inscribed on verso: La Maison de Claude Monet Giverny. Looking across from the end of my garden W. L. Metcalf William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) Shinnecock Hills Oil on panel 3 5 6 /8 x 9 /16 inches Inscribed on verso: W.M. Chase, Shinnecock Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975) Swing Your Partner, 1945 Watercolor and gouache on paper 5 1 22 /8 x 31 /2 inches (sight size) Signed and dated lower left: Benton ’45; inscribed on verso label: Swing your Partner–/ Ozarks–water color. / Painted 1945 / Water color / Thomas H. Benton Milton Avery (1885–1965) Still Life, 1949 Oil on canvas board 15 15 17 /16 x 23 /16 inches Signed and dated lower left: Milton Avery 1949 Arthur B. Carles (1882–1952) Still Life, Flowers, 1914 Oil on canvas 5 5 68 /8 x 45 /8 inches Signed lower left: Carles Additional Works in Exhibition Offered for Sale
Cropsey, Jasper F., Gates of the Hudson Homer, Winslow, Shepherdesses Resting, 1879 Doughty, Thomas, Landscape Kuehne, Max, Rockport Harbor, Maine, 1919 Gifford, Sanford, R., The Basin of the Patapsco Lie, Jonas, Chapel at Kamp Kill Kare, 1930 from Federal Hill, Baltimore Wiggins, Guy C., Easterly Winds Haseltine, William S., Harbor of Genoa Wiggins, Guy C., Union Square, Winter Kensett, John F., New England Scenery, 1856 Wyeth, N. C., Untitled (Chadds Ford Landscape Mignot, Louis-Rémy, Twilight with Figures under a Tree), ca. 1908–10 Richards, William T., Atlantic City Richards, William T., Beach Scene, 1875 Bluemner, Oscar F., Railroad Station, Silver Lake Henri, Robert, The Green Ribbon Crane, Bruce, The Hayfi eld Kent, Rockwell, View of Resurrection Bay, Alaska Harrison, Birge, Sunset from Quebec Maurer, Alfred H., Fauve Landscape Wyant, Alexander H., Woodland Shelter Moses, Anna Mary Robertson, The Yellow Birds, 1950 Wyeth, Andrew, Sundown
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