THE GALLERY • THE GALLERY • THE GALLERY • THE GALLERY ANTIQUES AND THE ARTS WEEKLY 5 CHURCH HILL RD BOX 5503 NEWTOWN, CONNECTICUT, 06470 FALL 2015 2 - THE GALLERY October 16, 2015 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly R. Scudder Smith, Executive Publisher & Editor THE GALLERY • THE GALLERY • THE GALLERY • THE GALLERY Carol Sims, Gallery Editor Pamela Ashbahian, Production Director Tel.203-426-8036 or 426-3141 or Fax: 203-426-1394 www.AntiquesandTheArts.com email - [email protected] THE GALLERY • THE GALLERY • THE GALLERY • THE GALLERY Published by The Bee Publishing Company, Box 5503, Newtown Connecticut 06470 The American Art Fair Celebrates Its 8th Year NEW YORK CITY — The Ameri- ies, Avery Galleries, Driscoll Babcock can Art Fair celebrates its eighth year Galleries, Conner Rosenkranz, DC November 15-18 at the Bohemian Moore Gallery, Debra Force Fine Art, National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, Forum Gallery, Godel & Co. Fine New York City. The gala preview on Art, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, James Saturday, November 14, marks the Reinish & Associates, John H. Sur- beginning of American Paintings ovek Gallery, Jonathan Boos, Men- Week in New York. Inaugurated in coni & Schoelkopf, Meredith Ward 2008, The American Art Fair is the Fine Art, Questroyal Fine Art, Thom- now the only one that focuses on as Colville Fine Art and Tom Veilleux American Nineteenth and Twentieth Gallery. Century works and features hundreds The fair will coincide with American of landscapes, portraits, still lifes, Paintings Week and special lectures studies and sculpture exhibited by 17 will be given by premier American art premier specialists. specialists. Avis Berman, writer and Participants include Adelson Galler- art historian, will give a lecture titled Milton Avery, “Garden Basket,” 1949. “Distilling the American Flavor: Ger- Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery. Herbert Ferber, “Homage to Piranesi trude Vanderbilt Whitney, Juliana VIII,” 1970. Courtesy of Conner — Force and the Making of the Whitney Rosenkranz LLC. Museum” on Sunday, November 15, at 2 pm. Stephanie L. Herdrich, assis- tant research curator for the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will give a lecture titled “Collect- ing Sargent: Posers and Patrons in the Gilded Age” on Monday, November 16, at 4 pm. Lecture seating is on a first-come basis. Admission to the gala preview is by invitation; admission to the lectures and to the fair November 15–18 is complimentary. Fair hours are noon to 6 pm daily, and to 8 pm on Mon- day, November 16. For details, visit www.TheAmericanArtFair.com. Walt Kuhn, “Clown,” 1942. Courtesy of Francis Augustus Silva, “River Scene,” 1873. Courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Galleries. Tom Veilleux Gallery. 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Having outgrown its present facilities and thanks to a generous lead gift from the McMullen Family Founda- tion, the museum has embarked on the renovation of and an addition to a Renaissance Revival palazzo at 2101 Commonwealth Avenue, which will serve as its new expanded home upon its completion in 2016. For more information on the museum, visit www.bc.edu/artmuseum. Weekend BIFAS hours are Friday, 1 to 8 pm; Saturday, 11 am to 8 pm; and Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm. Tickets John La Farge (1835–1910) “St John the Evangelist,” “Christ are $15, under 12 free. Tickets Preaching” and “St Paul,” 1889, opalescent leaded glass, 99 include complimentary admission to by 31 inches (each). McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; panel discussions and programs by gift of William and Alison Vareika in honor of William P. guest speakers, readmission, show cat- Leahy, SJ; J. Donald Monan, SJ; William B. Neenan, SJ; and Winslow Homer (1836–1910), “An Open Window,” 1872, oil alog and coat check. A bistro café and in memory of John La Farge, SJ. on canvas, 18 by 14 inches. Courtesy of Vose Galleries. discount and valet parking are also available. For information, visit www. ham, Mass.; Framont, Greenwich, at the show. There will be a reception, photographs and sketches. Join Erica FineArtBoston.com or call 617-363- Conn.; Garvey Rita Art & Antiques, booth talks by exhibitors and more. Hirshler, Croll senior curator of 0405. West Hartford, Conn.; Gerald Peters The evening features a search for American paintings at the MFA for an Diversity is the key word for BIFAS, Gallery, New York City; Gladwell & clues in BIFAS’s “Discover Art” con- intimate look at one of Boston’s most the only show of its kind in New Patterson, United Kingdom; Gleason test, and a special prize will be award- beloved artists. England. With no restrictions on the Fine Art, Boothbay Harbor, Maine; ed. Also on Sunday, “The Light and type of work that may be shown, Lawrence Fine Art, East Hampton, On Saturday, October 24, at 3 pm, Memory: John La Farge and Stained works on offer range from fine origi- N.Y.; Martha Richardson Fine Art, there will be a panel talk titled “Art Glass” will be presented at 3 pm. nal prints priced at a few hundred Boston; Principle Gallery, Alexandria, Market Insights: An Inside Perspec- John La Farge’s windows are notable, dollars to museum-quality master- Va., and Charleston, S.C.; Questroyal tive.” Join Joshua Rose, editor of not only for their technical innova- piece paintings priced in the millions. Fine Art, New York City; Renjeau American Fine Art Magazine, and a tions, but also represent an unusually The show enjoys a mix of blue chip Galleries, Natick, Mass.; Susanna J. panel of experts for a close-up look at sophisticated understanding of the traditional works, Twentieth Century Fichera Fine Art, Bowdoinham, the art market today. Discover how historical role of the medium and the modernist genres, a wide spectrum of Maine; Susan Powell Fine Art, Madi- art world insiders view the market for aesthetic issues raised by the experi- art from numerous countries and out- son, Conn.; Vose Galleries, Boston; fine art, and the value of knowledge, ence of viewing stained glass. La standing emerging and established William Greenbaum Fine Prints, research and passion when collecting Farge carefully considered how his contemporary artists. Rockport, Mass.; William Vareika fine art. Bring your questions for a windows would be perceived and The roster of new and returning Fine Arts, Newport, Mass.; and oth- lively exchange! Panelists to be understood as a sign of the sacred, dealers includes 555 Gallery, Boston; ers. announced. and anticipated key aspects of modern Adelson Galleries, Boston; Avery Gal- Special programs take place On Sunday, October 25, at 2 pm, art theory. The presentation will be leries, Bryn Mawr; The Banks Gal- throughout the weekend at the show. there will be a talk about the Boston illustrated with photos of stained lery, Portsmouth, N.H.; Bowersock Special guest speakers, panel discus- MFA exhibition, “Yours Sincerely, John glass in New England. Presented by Gallery, Provincetown, Mass. and Mt sions, dealer booth talks and more are S. Sargent.” In celebration of the Jeffery Howe, curator of the exhibi- Dora, Fla.; Brock & Co., Concord, all included with admission to the recent gift to the MFA of the John tion, “John La Farge and the Recovery Mass.; Colm Rowan, New York City show. Singer Sargent Archive by Jan and of Sacred,” is currently on view at the and Philadelphia; Cooley Gallery, Friday Discovery Night will take Warren Adelson and Richard and McMullen Museum of Art, Devlin Old Lyme, Conn.; Edward T. Pollack place October 23 from 5 to 8 pm. Leonee Ormand, the current Museum Hall, Boston College. Fine Arts, Portland, Maine; Eisen- Visitors may explore the offerings of of Fine Arts exhibition “Yours Sin- For more information on BIFAS and hauer Gallery, Edgartown, Mass.; 40 galleries, talk with the experts and cerely, John S. Sargent” brings the its programs, visit www.fineartboston. Fountain Street Fine Art, Framing- meet many of the artists represented painter to life through his letters, com. Peter Lyons, “Breakthrough,” 2014, oil on canvas, 14 by 22 inches. Courtesy of Tri- View of the Boston International Fine Art Show 2014. dent Gallery. Antiques and The Arts Weekly — October 16, 2015 THE GALLERY — 5 DANIEL GARBER (1880–1958) Spring Planting, Stony Ridge, c. 1947 Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches Signed lower left Jim’s of Lambertville SPECIALIZING IN PENNSYLVANIA 6 BRIDGE STREET, LAMBERTVILLE, NJ 08530 GALLERY HOURS IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS WED. - FRI. 10:30 - 5:00 AX (MAINLY THE NEW HOPE SCHOOL) 609-397-7700 · F 609-397-7722 SAT.