An Evening to Remember
Ten of the leading Madison Avenue art dealers open their doors for the fall Just Off Madison art walk in Newyork City
Historic American art takes center stage this fall in New York City with an array of events and auctions dedicated to timeless prewar paintings and sculptures. Often under the moniker of American Art Week, these Novemberbased
happenings are well-attended and highlight every genre from Hudson River School landscapes through modernism. One of the much-lauded evenings is the annual Just Off Madison art walk where private dealers along Madison Avenue open their doors from 5 to 8 p.m. for an exclusive showing of their inventories.
This year’s stroll happens November 18 with 10 galleries participating:
Avery Galleries, Betty Krulik Fine Art, Conner • Rosenkranz, Debra Force Fine Art, Driscoll Babcock Galleries,
Graham Shay 1857, Jonathan Boos, Lois Wagner Fine Arts, Meredith Ward Fine Art and Taylor | Graham.
Nicole Amoroso, managing director of Avery Galleries, is particularly keen on the lineup of events during the week helping drive traffic to the dealers. She says,“the opportune timing of all the events during American Art Week this November should make Just Off Madison particularly well-attended and successful.”at the gallery will be works such as Blizzard Times Square, No. 2 by John Whorf and Mary Elizabeth Price’s
Hollyhock and Oriental Poppy.
John Driscoll of Driscoll Babcock has put together a strong selection of items for collectors to enjoy during the art walk, with three works being of particular note. He shares,“driscoll Babcock is celebrating its 167th year showing great American and European works of art, and for Just Off Madison will feature one of William Harnett’s greatest Trompe l’oeil masterpieces, a recently rediscovered J. G. Brown and, from a private collection, a major but seldom seen Marsden Hartley.” Throughout the duration of
American Art Week, Graham Shay 1857 will exhibit an array of paintings and sculpture including work from Bertram Hartman, James E. Fraser,
John Gregory, Harriet Frishmuth,
Paul Manship and Joe Brown. One of the most notable paintings is Untitled (Building the Railroad) by Alfred S.wall. The work depicts “a group of laborers and surveyor building the railroad through the Alleghany Mountains of Pennsylvania,” the gallery explains. “This painting, executed in 1859, is a record of a moment in time when Wall, exploring this region, happened to come upon this scene.”
Known for its sculpture offerings,
Conner • Rosenkranz will have works on display from the likes of Cecil de Blaquière Howard, Augustus Saintgaudens and Alexander Archipenko. The Saint-gaudens piece, Diana, 1895, is arguably one of the artist’s most recognized works; it depicts Diana the Roman goddess of the hunt aiming her bow and arrow.
On view at Betty Krulik Fine Art is Sanford Robinson Gifford’s 1858 painting The Roman Campagna, a scene the artist first saw during the second year of his first trip to Europe.according to the gallery he likely did sketches of the scene after his return to America, with this painting being his largest known, and probably last, version of the subject.
Also during Just Off Madison, collectors can find works from Rae Sloan Bredin, Robert Henri and John George Brown at Debra Force Fine Art; art from Priscilla Roberts at Lois Wagner Fine Arts; and pieces by Charles Biederman, Flora Crockett and Frederick Kann at Meredith Ward Fine Art.