In Season
Thirteen of the top private art dealers in Newyork City open their doors on November 14 for the Just Off Madison art walk
Thirteen of the top private art dealers in New York City open their doors on November 14 for the Just Off Madison art walk
As the Newyork City auction houses host their fall American art sales, some of the nation’s top private dealers prepare for a unique event of their own.the Just
Off Madison art walk invites the public into the galleries for three hours to view high-caliber art, purchase new pieces and interact with experts in the American art field. with each space located along Madison Avenue, it’s easy to access the 13 locations that are open for this year’s November event.
This fall’s participants are Jonathan Boos, GRAHAM SHAY 1857, Taylor| graham, David Tunick Inc., Debra Force Fine Art, Lois Wagner Fine Arts, Kraushaar Galleries, Avery Galleries, Betty Krulik Fine Art, Conner • Rosenkranz, James Reinish & Associates, Meredith Ward Fine Art and Menconi + Schoelkopf. Each will have an exhibition or selection of artwork on view that highlights a variety of topics from across the American art categories.
Betty Krulik, art dealer and an organizer of Just Off Madison, says “A lot of the Just Off Madison dealers have new spaces to which we welcome our clients, curators and colleagues. ”this year in her gallery will be a Jean-michel Basquiat drawing. She explains, “the work was given by Basquiat to a friend and has remained with her since 1984.”
At the brand-new gallery
GRAHAM SHAY 1857, which is dedicated to paintings and sculptures of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, there will be works by Eric Sloane, Harriet Whitney Frishmuth and Herbert H. Haseltine, among others. One of the standout items is an edition of Frishmuth’s Joy of Waters, Fountain, with a light green and brown patina.
Debra Force Fine Art will feature a
number of paintings at their space, with highlights including Jasper Francis Cropsey’s Indian Summer on the Delaware River, an oil on canvas from 1862, and a circa 1930 watercolor by George Benjamin Luks titled Autumn.
Conner • Rosencranz, which specializes in sculpture, will exhibit Cecil de Blaquière Howard’s poly ch ormed wood Guitarist, 1915-17, and the brass on separate wood base piece Construction, 1953, by Sidney Gordin.
“With the exciting upcoming auctions, particularly the collection of Barney A. Ebsworth, and The American Art Fair, we believe the spotlight will shine more than ever on American art this season,” says Richard Rossello, owner of Avery Galleries, which has locations in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and New York City. “We’re also delighted to welcome our guests to our new space in the same building.”
Katherine Degn of Kraushaar Galleries says, “we are pleased to participate again in the semiannual Just Off Madison walk. Our presentation this season will emphasize midcentury abstraction and include works by Dorothy Dehner, George L. K. Morris,
Karl Schrag, John Storrs, John Heliker and William Kienbusch’s ode to Marsden Hartley’s Maine in Mt. Katahdin, winter, 1953.” In his work, Kienbusch turned to Maine’s highest peak, which had been the subject of many of Hartley’s pieces, as well as inspiration to artists such as Henry David Thoreau and Frederic Edwin Church.
During Just off Madison and American Art Week, Taylor| g raham will be running two tandem exhibitions. “postwar: a Painter’s Brush Unleashed will feature exuberant gesture and action paintings by artists such as Nicolas Carone, Robert Motherwell, the odor os Stamos and John Grillo,” says Abby Taylor, owner of the gallery. “and a tribute exhibition titled The Appreciation of the Academic will feature works by artists respected for their technical prowess, including Julius Stewart, Emil Carlsen, Frederick Macmonnies and Worthington Whittredge.”
Just Off Madison will take place November 14 from 5 to 8 p.m.