March 11, 2006 – June 30, 2006
We are pleased to present a selection of works on paper in charcoal, graphite, gouache, watercolor and other media.
March 11, 2006 – June 30, 2006
We are pleased to present a selection of works on paper in charcoal, graphite, gouache, watercolor and other media.
March 11, 2006 – June 30, 2006
We are pleased to present our most recent acquisitions of important California Modernist paintings and sculpture from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.
From Depression-era Social Realism by Victor Arnautoff to the African American motifs of Ralph Chessé to the exploration of style by a young Danish immigrant, Knud Merrild, this selection of artworks is at once historically significant and provocative. Both Northern and Southern California Modernist trends are well represented. Rare sculptural work by Karoly Fulop, Jason Herron, Adaline Kent and Ralph Stackpole round out an exhibition that includes landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and other extraordinary artworks.
A color brochure of the exhibition is available upon request.
July 1, 2006 – September 2, 2006
This exhibition is an extension of, and builds upon, our exhibition of our most recent acquisitions, highlighting California’s foremost modernists of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, with a few works introducing the language of 1950s modernism to our Gallery visitors.
September 16, 2006 – December 2, 2006
This exhibition provides an uncompromising look at the vivid, colorful and historically innovative approach to portraiture by California’s foremost Modernists of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. The exhibition, emphasizing oil paintings and sculpture, includes drawings and prints.
Featured are works by Mabel Alvarez, Victor Arnautoff, Dorr Bothwell, Claude Buck, Conrad Buff, Helen Forbes, Yun Gee, John Emmett Gerrity, Ejnar Hansen, John Langley Howard, Boris Lovet-Lorski, Helen Clark Oldfield, Otis Oldfield, Edna Reindel, Jacques Schnier, Ralph Stackpole, Manuel Tolegian, Frede Vidar, Christian Von Schneidau, Edward Weston, Bernard Zakheim, and others.
A color brochure of the exhibition is available upon request.
December 9, 2006 – April 7, 2007
This versatile artist, who routinely commented on social inequities in his Depression-era art, also experimented with Cubism and other early Modernist styles. Arnautoff was as facile in the use of watercolor, charcoal, ink and lithography techniques as he was with oil and mural painting. These striking and passionate works come from the Estate of the Artist.
Spencer Helfen Fine Arts
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