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A team of 19th-century American art, mainly from two private Texas collections, will be offered at Christie’s on Jan. 19 along with the Americana Week marquee gross sales.
Leading the team is In the Yosemite, a landscape by
Albert Bierstadt
(1830-1902), a German-American painter finest acknowledged for his sweeping American Western landscapes.
“He was a single of the initial artists for the duration of the Westward Expansion to convey back photographs of the West,” states
Paige Kestenman,
a expert in Christie’s American Art division. “This attractive landscape was painted in the field, that includes The Center Cathedral Rock, the legendary area in Yosemite Countrywide Park.”
The painting was offered from the estate of
Richard Rutherford Jr.
(1934-2020), an oilman and rancher in Houston, Texas, who obtained the piece in 1973. The piece has a presale estimate between US$300,000 and US$500,000.
Edwin Church’s Wintertime Scene in Hartford
Courtesy of Christie’s
A further spotlight is Frederic Edwin Church’s landscape Winter Scene in Hartford, with an estimate between US$200,000 and US$300,000. Church (1826-1900) was a central determine in the Hudson River College, an artwork motion in the mid-19th century motivated by romanticism. Their paintings typically depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, together with the Catskills, Adirondacks, and White Mountains.
Wintertime Scene in Hartford was available from the
James William Glanville
and
Nancy Hart Glanville
Assortment, a single of the most distinguished personal collections of American artwork. The pair experienced both served on the board of the Museum of Fantastic Arts in Houston.
He died in 1992, and she died in 2020.
Around 70 tons of 19th-century American artwork from these two collections will be integrated in the Christie’s sale on Jan. 19, with an estimated total worth of concerning US$3 million and US$4.5 million.
This will be the to start with time for Christie’s to crack up the common American paintings and sculptures to incorporate 19th-century American artwork as a new group to reflect the gathering desire of today’s collectors, Kestenman says.
Whole information of the sale are now out there for on the internet viewing. Public exhibition at Christie’s
Rockefeller
New York galleries will get started on Jan. 13, by appointment only.
You don’t need to know anything about art to be stopped in your tracks by what’s on the walls of El Museo del Barrio these days: the fantastic ballpoint pen drawings by Consuelo (Chelo) González Amézcua (1903-1975), a Mexican immigrant to Texas; the stupefyingly intricate collages of Felipe Jesus Consalvos, who was born in Havana and died in Philadelphia, where in 1983 his life’s work was found in a garage sale; and the pictographic paintings of Puerto Rican-born Eloy Blanco (1933-1984), who came to New York City to study art and learned from fellow Latinos about the Indigenous Taino culture of his homeland — a culture he ended up making the wellspring of his work.
This season has brought a bounty of historical shows of Latin American and Latino art, two cultural categories that are closely related without being interchangeable. Latin American is generally understood to designate art originating in the southern hemisphere of the Americas. Latino (with its Latina and Latinx cognates) refers to work by artists of Latin American descent working in the United States. But both terms are spacious and mutable.
El Museo del Barrio
The two meet in a pair of exhibitions at El Museo del Barrio. The larger, “Popular Painters and Other Visionaries,” spotlights work by 35 artists — González Amézcua, Consalvos and Blanco among them — born in the first half of the 20th century. Most are from Latin America; and many are self-taught, which means that much of the work doesn’t adhere to the mainstream market definition of “Latin American art” as work influenced, and elevated, by an association with elite European modernism.
Organized by El Museo curators Rodrigo Moura and Susanna V. Temkin, working with Ash Cortes, an intern, the show offers a counterargument from the start, with a display of three banners, glinting with sequins, and embroidered with mystical symbols. They were made by Antoine Oleyant (1955-1992), a Vodou priest from Haiti, and represent a distinctive local art tradition, one with clear Afro-Atlantic sources.
Other pieces, many culled from El Museo’s permanent collection, support the case for an expanded view of Latin American art, one that incorporates 1950s paintings of Yoruba myths by Rafael Borjes de Oliveira, a Brazilian policeman and Candomblé devotee, along with Asilia Guillén’s stitch-fine depictions of scenes from Nicaraguan history; but also the work of Latinx artists like Consalvos and Blanco, who were born in Latin America but spent their creative years in the United States.
Consalvos is thought to have died around 1960, on the cusp of a decade of intense Latino activism in North American cities, in reaction to racist neglect and aggression. As always, New York’s Puerto Rican community had to see to its own survival, which included preserving its history. To this end, in 1974, three young photographers — Charles Biasiny-Rivera, Roger Cabán and Felipe Dante — formed En Foco, a collective devoted to documenting Latino life from the inside. And the second exhibition at El Museo, “En Foco: The New York Puerto Rican Experience, 1973-1974,” displays the group’s inaugural portfolio, made up of images of daily life in the streets and schools of the barrio, and among Latino laborers in and outside the city.
Taller Boricua
In 1969, another volunteer grassroots start-up, Taller Boricua, also called the Puerto Rican Workshop, set up shop in a public school classroom. It’s still in operation and maintains a modest gallery in the Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center at 106th Street and Lexington Avenue, where a founder, the artist Marcos Dimas, has installed a not-to-be-missed show.
It’s titled “Temporal Chronology,” and that’s exactly what it is: a year-by-year timeline of the Workshop’s history mapped out on the gallery walls in hundreds of pieces of printed ephemera: exhibition posters, letters, protest signs, newspaper clips. The wraparound archive also doubles as a half-century document of unbroken community activism, which persists even as the community changes. And it’s a personal record of Dimas’s career as artist-worker and political witness. (What’s on the walls has been stored in his apartment.) The city should honor him with a medal, and give Taller Boricua an extra shot of funding.
The narrative here is of artists from South and Central America coming to New York City, a newly hot international cultural center, some to explore career opportunities, others to escape political repression. Most didn’t think of themselves on arrival particularly as “Latin American,” never mind “Latino.” And while the show acknowledges the longtime presence of Latino artists in the city, there seems to have little interchange between them and the newcomers.
Race and class played a role in this, and differing senses of investment in the city. To Latino artists it was both home and battleground. To Latin American transplants it was a stage where a politics of aesthetics was playing out in new avant-garde styles and forms: Minimalism, Conceptualism, video and performance. And what extraordinary artists the experiments brought to New York: temporarily, Hélio Oiticica from Brazil, Marta Minujín from Argentina, Zilia Sánchez Dominguez from Cuba; permanently, Luis Camnitzer from Uruguay, Juan Downey from Chile, Freddy Rodríguez from the Dominican Republic.
They are among some 40 artists and collectives in the show, organized by the Americas Society curator Aimé Iglesias Lukin, with Mariana Fernández, Tie Jojima and Natalia Viera Salgado — which comes in two parts, one through this Saturday, Dec. 18, the other, with different work by the same artists, opening Jan. 22.
The Galleries
Work by Latin American artists who produced art in the United States can also be found in galleries. A small show called “José Antonio Fernández-Muro: Geometry in Transfer” at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), on the Upper East Side, surveys work from the late 1950s and early 1960s, when the Argentine artist moved, with his wife, the painter Sarah Grilo, to New York from Buenos Aires. In South America he was associated with an ethereal and utopian strain of geometric abstraction. In New York, the quietist impulse hit a bump: paintings were based on rubbings he made of Manhattan sewer grates and manhole covers. The show, organized by Megan Kincaid, an instructor at New York University, gives us both before and after work, equally beautiful.
Also on the Upper East Side, Henrique Faria Gallery, which specializes in Latin American art, is showing work by the Swiss-born Venezuelan photographer Luis Molina-Pantin, who calls himself “an urban archaeologist.” On visits to New York from 2001 to 2006, he photographed (with a hidden camera) the back room offices of big-deal Chelsea galleries, sterile, high-ceilinged, art-free spaces that suggest mortuaries. During the same decade, disguised as a real estate agent, he was shooting Disneyesque drug-baron mansions in Colombia, one a miniature version of the Taj Mahal. In the show, it’s hard to decide which version of power architecture is weirder.
And a few blocks away, at Hunter College’s Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, “Life as Activity: David Lamelas” is celebrating the career of the veteran Argentina-born conceptualist, focusing on two of his films. The longer one, “The Desert People,” is a rough and interesting pseudo-documentary about researching Native American life, made in 1974 in Los Angeles. “The Invention of Dr. Morel” was made in Europe in 2000. It’s polished and spooky and has a hologram — a kind of proto-NFT? — for a heroine. The exhibition was developed by students in a Hunter graduate seminar led by Harper Montgomery, a professor, with the artist participating via Zoom.
4 Other Names to Know in Latin American Art
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Paving the way. Frida Kahlo is internationally renowned for the emotional intensity of her work. But she is not the only woman from Latin America to leave her mark in the art world. Here are four more to know:
1. Luchita Hurtado. For years, Hurtado worked in the shadow of her husbands and more famous peers. Her paintings, which emphasize the interconnectedness of all living things, didn’t get recognition from the art world until late in her life.
2. Belkis Ayón. A Cuban printmaker, Ayón was a master in the art of collagraphy. She worked almost exclusively in black, white and gray. She used her art, focused on a secret religious fraternity, to explore the themes of humanity and spirituality.
4. Remedios Varo. Though she was born in Spain, Varo’s work is indelibly linked to Mexico, where she immigrated during World War II. Her style is reminiscent of Renaissance art in its exquisite precision, but her dreamlike paintings were otherworldly in tone.
Hunter College is home to the invaluable Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños). And the Hunter East Harlem Gallery at 119th Street and Third Avenue has given significant exposure to Latino art, as it is doing now with “Lina Puerta: Migration, Nature, and the Feminine,” a compact midcareer survey of sculpture by an artist raised in Colombia and created during her time as an East Harlem resident. Puerta’s assemblages, with their fake tropical greenery, faux fur, lace, rhinestones and sexualized forms, represent the exoticism that some Latin American Conceptualists were rejecting, but that has, in Puerta’s hands, a critical politics (eco-feminist, anti-colonialist) of its own. As conceived by Klaudia Ofwona Draber and Arden Sherman (the gallery’s director), the show is too much, and proud.
A final strong exhibition is far downtown at South Street Seaport, in a new gallery named Calderón. Its debut show features two New York painters, Shellyne Rodriguez and Danielle De Jesus, who focus on the different Latino worlds they’ve been part of.
De Jesus spent her childhood in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and paints memory-portraits of people there. Many lived and died in poverty, or were pushed out of their homes as real estate values rose. Rodriguez grew up in the Soundview section of the Bronx. Her color pencil drawings are portraits too, but they’re not sad; they’re sassy. And in compositions based on vintage hip-hop fliers, figures are surrounded by words: song lyrics, advertising slogans, Bronx street names, quotes from Frantz Fanon. This is a world that may partly exist in the past, but it’s jumpily noisy, and still alive.
Latino/Latina/Latinx continues to defy easy definition, but attempts to do so keep coming, the latest being the Winter 2021 “Latinx” issue of Aperture magazine, guest-edited by Pilar Tompkins Rivas. In 17 essays it circles and probes the subject from many angles. What comes through in the end is not consensus but a kind of wild richness. Why try to pin down, and narrow, a concept that has, after all, always contained multitudes?
Where to See Latin American and Latino Artists
Popular Painters and Other Visionaries, and the historical photo show En Foco: The New York Puerto Rican Experience, 1973—74. Through Feb. 27, El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue, at 105th Street, Manhattan, (212) 831-7272; elmuseo.org,
This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965—1975
Part 1 through Dec. 18; Part 2, Jan. 19 through May 14; Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue at 68th Street, Manhattan, (212) 249-8950; as-coa.org.
Anila Quayyum Agha (b. 1965) A Stunning Despair (Cube) 2021 Laser slice, lacquered metal 5 x 5 ft … [+] Anila Quayyum Agha: A Lovely Despair Amon Carter Museum of American Artwork, Fort Value September 25, 2021, as a result of January 9, 2022
Further to her upbringing as a girl in a Pakistan that experienced become more and more Islamic and hostile to the value of females. Deeper to her immigration to the U.S. in 2000, arriving in Texas to experience the full power of the nation’s post-9/11 discrimination toward any one showing “Middle Eastern.”
She overcame those obstructions, rising to acquire her MFA from the College of North Texas in Dallas, two grand prizes at Art Prize in 2014, solo exhibitions at prestigious museums around the earth, the Cincinnati Museum of Art’s Schiele Prize, a Joan Mitchell grant and a Smithsonian fellowship among many achievements.
Her latest honor: an exhibition of her installations and drawings at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Ft. Worth, Texas, “Anila Quayyum Agha: A Wonderful Despair,” on watch by means of January 9, 2022.
Agha (b. 1965 Lahore, Pakistan) channeled her despair at seeing the each day tragedies of 2020 unfold into one more breathtaking case in point of her now iconic lantern-like cube sculptures, Gorgeous Despair (2021), a site-precise piece commissioned by the Carter for this exhibition. The strength of the artist’s will reveals by itself through her creation of a timeless, spectacular installation through a period of personal and nationwide angst in which millions–understandably–found it hard to do anything at all.
Agha strikes to accomplish a balance in her artwork of “conceptually hard and aesthetically relaxing,” here using the patterns and motifs of her Pakistani heritage to assemble an inclusive sanctuary for processing emotions of decline that have transcended cultural and geographic boundaries.
Anila Quayyum Agha (b. 1965) A Beautiful Despair (Cube) 2021 Laser slice, lacquered steel 5 x 5 ft … [+] Anila Quayyum Agha: A Attractive Despair Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Really worth September 25, 2021, by January 9, 2022
Gorgeous Despair invites viewers into a triangular house carefully suffused with a pumpkin-coloured light-weight radiating from a significant, intricately thorough cobalt blue cube in its center. Agha’s cubes are laser cut from lacquered metal, astonishing for their tangible precision and intangible hospitability. The styles and designs plainly influenced by Islamic architecture’s cravings for geometry and purchase.
A transportation occurs no much less overwhelming than that felt by moving into just one of Yaoyi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms–although far more solemn.
“I was primarily critiquing structured faith in generating the cube job,” Agha explains in the Carter’s catalogue for the exhibition. “My intent was to reveal the injustices perpetrated on gals due to religious dogma, which is generally based mostly on incorrect interpretations of spiritual doctrine that reduce women of all ages to mere chattels made use of for procreation and domestic servitude by the quite adult males who are intended to make them feel risk-free and empowered.”
Lovely despair.
A 2011 grant supplying the artist travel to Spain wherever she visited the Alhambra Palace in Granada served as inception for the strategy.
“At the palace, I grew to become euphoric viewing the abundance of sample and shade on every surface in the elaborate,” Agha is quoted in the catalogue. “The Alhambra advanced further reminded me of the artwork and architecture of mosques in Pakistan, which I had only professional as a tourist in my have region considering the fact that gals are discouraged to pray in the mosques. I needed to re-build a similar sensation of belonging in my art, to investigate the complex emotions of both of those inclusion and exclusion I experienced felt at the Alhambra, and the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, utilizing light-weight, shadows and patterns typically ascribed to women.”
Anila Quayyum Agha (b. 1965) A Beautiful Despair (Cube) 2021 Laser slice, lacquered metal 5 x 5 ft … [+] Anila Quayyum Agha: A Stunning Despair Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Value September 25, 2021, as a result of January 9, 2022
Agha’s signature hanging metal armatures encase a single gentle resource.
“This piece was a way to redress the equilibrium in occupying the oft-regarded as male situation of an architect and using a structured, geometric item built with resources frequently attributed to adult men,” Agha has explained.
Agha’s perform routinely upends classic male/woman inventive roles, no much more so than in her drawings, a dozen new examples of which be part of Gorgeous Despair–along with the artist’s first diamond-shaped hanging reduction sculpture–in the show. Her fragile, precise drawings are extra precisely explained as intricate combined-media items reliant upon an abundance of time, toil and technical mastery. They aspect cutout paper, metallic thread–sourced by the artist in Pakistan–mylar, charcoal, embroidery, dyes and, most shockingly, encaustic, a waxy materials integral to Pakistani textiles.
All of which considerably repositions the laborious intricacy of women’s handiwork as a fantastic-artwork prompt for focused introspection.
“Within my get the job done, embroidery embodies the woman existence and the force or pull of the needle and thread alongside one another symbolize the domestic id of women of all ages and their ambivalent relationship to that identity,” Agha, who’s mom taught her to sew around the age of 5 in order for the female to have a ability, explained.
Agha recalled a now-amusing anecdote about telling her mom she wanted to be an artist at a reception for her hosted by the Carter.
“I feel my mother cried–she seriously cried–I wanted to be a painter again then and she pulled me apart and designed me promise not to be a painter,” Agha remembers.
Despair.
“She reported research textiles because at minimum you will be ready to have a job–which is why I do all the fiber (operate).”
Gorgeous.
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Iconic Mark Rothko (left) and Pablo Picasso paintings hold side-by-facet at Fashionable Art Museum Ft. … [+] Truly worth.
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Winslow Homer, The Sand Dune, 1871-1872, oil on canvas, The Assortment of Eleanor and C. Thomas May well, Jr.
Gertrude Fiske, Contemplation, before 1916, oil on canvas, The Selection of Eleanor and C. Thomas Could, Jr.
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is set to current Pursuit of Elegance: The May perhaps Family members Collection, an exhibition of the excellent Dallas-centered selection of American art that was designed about 60 a long time by Thomas and Eleanor May perhaps. Pursuit of Natural beauty characteristics 28 19th- and 20th-century oil paintings, watercolors, and sculptures on bank loan to the DMA, quite a few of which rank now as quintessential creations by big American artists. The works selected from the assortment characterize essential historic and aesthetic highpoints in American art historical past and are united by a harmonious visual perception of tranquility and attractiveness. Pursuit of Elegance is on view October 10, 2021, through January 9, 2022, and is bundled in cost-free basic admission. The exhibition was curated by Sue Canterbury, The Pauline Gill Sullivan Curator of American Artwork.
“The Mays have been stalwart supporters of the DMA since the 1980s and have forged a profound connection with the Museum. We are delighted to be able to present this rich assortment of works from their outstanding collection,” mentioned Dr. Agustín Arteaga, the DMA’s Eugene McDermott Director. “This exhibition is a tribute to their enduring commitment to enhancing the presentation of American art at the DMA and sharing with our group the opportunity to experience the artworks’ magnificence firsthand.”
With the initially acquisition in 1961, Thomas May released into an endeavor that has endured for six many years. Mr. May well was a former naval officer, and his decision to collect American artwork was influenced by an appreciation for his country’s history and lifestyle. Mr. May served as a Museum trustee for 6 many years, from 1999 to 2005. He and Mrs. May possibly have gifted quite a few will work of artwork to the Museum more than the a long time, including paintings, prints, drawings, watercolors, and sculpture. Pursuit of Beauty exemplifies the Mays’increasing expertise and aesthetic appreciation over decades of building and refining a assortment.
Alfred Henry Maurer, Tabletop Even now Life, 1913, oil on canvas, The Selection of Eleanor and C. Thomas May well, Jr.
Relationship from all over 1871 to 1948, the 28 performs in the exhibition span a large variety of models and techniques from throughout the United States, reflecting the artistic diversity of early The us. Significant inventive actions represented contain Realism, American Impressionism, the Ashcan College, American Modernism, and the American Scene, amongst other people. The showcased operates contain landscapes by Winslow Homer, George Inness, and Chauncey F. Ryder portraits by Cecilia Beaux and John Singer Sargent and continue to lifes by Alfred Henry Maurer and Laura Coombs. Sargent’s Sylvia Harrison—created when the renowned artist only seldom painted portraits for near friends—is a tour-de-power example of the traits that manufactured him a single of the most sought-following portrait painters of the Gilded and Edwardian Ages. The May collection exhibits special toughness in cosmopolitan artists who analyzed in Europe and New England, these kinds of as Theodore Robinson, William Merritt Chase, and Gertrude Fiske. Works by Beaux, Chase, Inness, Sargent, Edmund Tarbell, and Charles Burchfield all bear their original frames, offering a one of a kind prospect to working experience these paintings as their artists intended.
Theodore Robinson, Miss Motes and Her Pet dog Shep in a Boat, 1893, oil on canvas, The Collection of Eleanor and C. Thomas May, Jr.
“The Mays’ assortment has an intimacy and feeling of contemplation that is really pleasing, equally visually and emotionally,” explained Canterbury. “These artists captured tender, reflective times from every day life—whether expended at the seashore or in at ease interiors—that express, with wonderful magnificence, an era when lifestyle and its speed seemed harried.”
