07 fine art connoisseur, new york, july issue,

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A rti sts & G a l l e r i e s

London

through July 24

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Sladmore is presenting the exhibition Bugatti: Father & Son. Organized by Edward Horswell, it concentrates on Carlo Bugatti, the great Art Nouveau designer, though plenty of attention is also paid to his son Rembrandt, the animal sculptor.

whose meadow scenes evoke the poetic subtlety of the French Barbizon School. Yet viewers sense Malzahn’s individuality, too, especially in his creation of mood through deft management of lights and darks.

Information: 903 Park Avenue, Third Floor, New York, NY 10075, 212.744.3586, questroyalfineart.com

Information: 57 Jermyn Street, London SW1Y 6LX, England, 0207.629.1144, sladmore.com

Dinah Worman (b. 1950), The Rhythm of Three (detail), 2014, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in., Act I Gallery

Taos

July 4-31

Dinah Worman is the subject of a solo exhibition at Act I Gallery this summer. Based in Taos, she paints exquisite landscapes in oils, primarily set in the Southwest.

Information: 218 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM 87571, 575.758.7831, actonegallery.com

Hilo, Hawaii

July 1-30

In conjunction with the University of Hawaii’s Summer Art Institute, the exhibition Representational Art in the 21st Century will focus on drawings, paintings, and prints on paper made by artists from around the world. All will relate to landscape and the human figure, and will be juried by the New York-based artist and writer James Lancel McElhinney.

A catalogue will be published online when the exhibition opens.

Guan Weixing (b. 1940), Burdened (detail), 2014, watercolor on paper, 20 1/2 x 29 1/2 in., Ambleside Gallery

Greensboro, North Carolina July 17-August 22

Phil Hulebak (b. 1951), Pecos River (detail),2015, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in., Marigold Arts

Noah Buchanan (b. 1976), Ariel (Study) (detail), 2012, graphite on paper, 18 x 18 in., on view at Hilo July 1-30

Santa Fe

July 10-August 6

Marigold Arts has invited the Albuquerque-based plein air painter Phil Hulebak to present High Country, his first solo exhibition there. He recently began using a palette knife, resulting in a looser style that, he says, “allows me to explore the landscape with more passion and experimentation.”

Information: 424 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, 505.982.4142, marigoldarts.com

Information: Wailoa Arts and Cultural Center, 200 Piopio Street, Hilo, HI 96720, 808.933.0416, hilo.hawaii. edu/~art/summer-art-institute

Widely admired in his native China and by watercolorists around the world, Guan Weixing is best known for luminous images of Chinese village life. He has exhibited several times with Ambleside Gallery since 2005, and this summer’s show marks their latest collaboration.

Information: 528 South Elm Street, Greensboro, NC 27406, 336.275.9844, amblesidearts.com

Lauren Rosenblum (b. 1960), Spring Bouquet (detail), 2015, cotton, fiber-reactive dyes, and silk yarn, 57 x 39 in., Hersh Fine Art

Glen Cove, New York Jerry Malzahn (b. 1946), Cotton Farm, Friendship, Tennessee, 2006, oil on paper, 11 x 14 in., Questroyal Fine Art

New York City Rembrandt Bugatti (1884-1916), Walking Stork (detail), designed 1912, cast c. 1925, 14 x 11 in., Sladmore

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July 24-August 15

Renowned for historical American masterworks, Questroyal Fine Art will soon present its first exhibition dedicated to a living artist. On view will be 25 American landscapes painted

by Texas’s Jerry Malzahn (b. 1946), whose grand Western landscapes echo Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt, and J u l y / A u g u s t

through July 31

Located within the Long Island Academy of Fine Art, Hersh Fine Art is presenting recent fiber paintings by Lauren Rosenblum, who studied — and now teaches — at the Academy.

After dyeing her own fabrics, she combines them with paint and yarn as an Impressionist might, creating a sense of movement and brushstroke. She is inspired chiefly by flowers, trees, and other garden motifs.

Information: 14A Glen Street, Glen Cove, NY 11542, 516.590.4324, liafa.com and hershfineart.com 2 0 1 5

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Xiao Song Jiang (b. 1955), Brown’s Memory (detail), 2012, oil on board, 18 x 24 in., on view at OPA's Western Regional Show

Steamboat Springs, Colorado August 7-September 7 The 2015 Western Regional Show of the nonprofit organization Oil Painters of America will be held at Wild Horse Gallery.

On view will be representational works by OPA members from across the West. The opening reception on August 7 will feature awards totaling $11,500, including $4,000 for Best in Show. The awarding juror will be member Johanna Harmon.

Information: 802 Lincoln Avenue, Steamboat Springs, CO 80477, 970.879.5515, wildhorsegallery.com and oilpaintersofamerica.com

Paige Bradley (b. 1974), Balance [1/3-life-size, edition of 50], 2009, bronze, 32 x 24 x 16 in., Greenberg Fine Art

Santa Fe

July 24-August 6

Greenberg Fine Art will exhibit an array of sculptures by Paige Bradley, including the first life-size edition of her bronze Release. Born in California and trained at Pepperdine University, the Florence Academy of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Bradley is admired for her mastery of human musculature.

Information: 205 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, 505.955.1500, greenbergfineart.com

Paul Winstanley (b. 1954), Art School 37 (detail), 2015, oil on panel, 40 x 26 3/4 in., Mitchell-Innes & Nash

New York City

through July 19

Mitchell-Innes & Nash is hosting its third solo exhibition of work by the London-based artist Paul Winstanley. On view are 10 paintings from his series Art School, inspired by photographs of empty studios he took in England, Scotland, and Wales in 2011-12. Having published those photographs in 2013, Winstanley went on to paint these contemplative, even poetic, scenes in oils on panel, focusing on the beauty of seemingly ordinary spaces.

Information: 534 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001, 212.744.7400, miandn.com

Dorian Vallejo (b. 1968), Passages (detail), 2015, oil on panel, 36 x 24 in., Jonathan LeVine Gallery

New York City

August 5-22

Thirty-seven painters will send one work each to infra:REAL— The Art of Imaginative Realism, an exhibition at Jonathan LeVine Gallery guest-curated by Patrick Wilshire, co-founder (with his wife, Jeannie) of the Association of Fantastic Art. Using techniques that range from academic to avant-garde, these artists focus on the unreal, unseen, or impossible, offering visions of humanity’s mythic past, its unexplored future, and, in some cases, its terrifying present.

Information: 529 West 20th Street and 557C West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011, 212.243.3822, jonathanlevinegallery.com F i n e A r t C o n n o i s s e u r · c o m

Leo Mancini-Hresko (b. 1981), Summer Light Studio Hallway, 2014, oil on linen, 36 x 41 in., Tree’s Place

Orleans, Massachusetts

through July 10

On Cape Cod, Tree’s Place is exhibiting recent paintings by the artists David Bareford, Kim English, and Leo ManciniHresko. Titled On the Spot: Worldly Impressions, their show underscores how well-traveled and observant they are.

Information: 960 Route 6A, Orleans, MA 02653, 508.255.1330, treesplace.com

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Kelly Carmody (b. 1977), Patrick (Man Holding White Cloth) (detail), 2013, oil on linen, 68 x 35 in., private collection, winner of the Edmund C. Tarbell Award at the Guild of Boston Artists

In May, the nonprofit Guild of Boston Artists announced the awardees in its Members Annual Juried Exhibition, which featured more than 25 paintings and sculptures. Selected by last year’s winners, the newest crop of honorees were Erik Koeppel, Kelly Carmody, Jean Lightman, David Lowrey, T.M. Nicholas, Sergio Roffo, Donald Jurney, and David Curtis.

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Information: 1250 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005, 202.783.5000, nmwa.org

John Mix Stanley (1814-1872), The Last of Their Race, 1857, oil on canvas, 43 x 60 in., Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody Sculptor Craig Bergsgaard with one of his life-size creations

Loveland, Colorado August 7-9 The first weekend of August is always artful in Loveland, and this year’s newest attraction is the Loveland Fine Art Invitational, a juried show and sale featuring works in every medium and style. On offer will be a sculpture garden, artist demonstrations, music and dance performances, tastings, and a silent auction, the proceeds of which will benefit local arts education.

Information: Owens Field, 29th Street at Taft Avenue, Loveland, CO 80537, 623.734.6526, vermillionpromotions.com

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Cody, Wyoming

through August 29

Though he traveled to the West more than any other artist of his generation, John Mix Stanley (1814-1872) has not enjoyed much recognition. That oversight is being righted by a retrospective at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West co-curated by Peter H. Hassrick and Mindy Besaw. Stanley was once renowned for his sensitive portraits of American Indians and scenes of military and government survey expeditions. From 1852, more than 200 of his works hung at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Alas, an 1865 fire destroyed all but seven, which makes this show’s presentation of 60 works all the more remarkable.

It will move on to Tulsa’s Gilcrease Museum (October 3, 2015-January 3, 2016) and finally the Tacoma Art Museum (January 30-May 1, 2016).

Information: 720 Sheridan Avenue, Cody, WY 82414, 307.587.4771, centerofthewest.org

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), Paestum, Italy: Temple of Neptune, View of the Interior from the West, 1777, black chalk, pencil, brown and gray washes, pen and ink on paper, 18 3/4 x 27 1/8 in., Sir John Soane’s Museum, London

Stanford, California August 19-January 4 In 1777, the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi visited the haunting archeological site of Paestum near Naples.

There he produced monumental drawings recording its three temples in preparation for a set of etchings. After his death, the etchings were completed and published by his son. In 1817, the English architect Sir John Soane acquired 15 of the 17 surviving drawings. Preserved at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, the drawings were restored recently and are now on view at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center, which has complemented them with several prints and rare books. A Piranesi symposium is set for November 13-14.

Information: Museum Way, Stanford, CA 94305, 650.723.4177, museum.stanford.edu

Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney in Spain, 1957, photo: Walt Disney Family Foundation © Disney

San Francisco

July 10-January 3

The Walt Disney Family Museum’s exhibition Architects of the Imagination highlights the unlikely alliance of Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney, who collaborated on the animated short Destino. Born three years apart, these two icons deftly blurred the boundaries between realism and fantasy. Guest-curated by the filmmaker Ted Nicolaou, the show includes paintings, sketches, photographs, and film and audio clips. It will move on to the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida (January-June 2016).

Information: 104 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94129, 415.345.6800, waltdisney.org

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Kerry Miller (b. 1957), Plant Life of the Black Forest, 2015, mixed media and hand-cut assemblage, 15 x 14 1/2 x 4 in., on view in Super Natural

Washington, D.C.

through September 13

The National Museum of Women in the Arts has organized two exhibitions celebrating female artists who look closely at nature. Its biennial Organic Matters—Women to Watch 2015 features 13 artists who depict fragile ecosystems, otherworldly landscapes, and creatures both real and imagined. In Super Natural, 50 works by 25 historical and J u l y / A u g u s t

Henry Hering’s photograph of Richard Dadd painting Contradiction (detail), c. 1875, courtesy Museum of the Mind, Bethlem Hospital

Compton, Surrey, England through November 1 The Watts Gallery is presenting the first major exhibition in more than 40 years to examine the English artist Richard 2 0 1 5

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Dadd (1817-1886). Trained at London’s Royal Academy Schools, Dadd enjoyed early success but succumbed to a psychotic illness and murdered his father. His trial was a national sensation, and he spent the rest of his life at the Bethlem and Broadmoor asylums. There he created paintings of outrageous imaginative power, primarily for the delight of his doctors and attendants. On view now are his remarkable paintings, works on paper, archive material, and even poetry. A reduced version of the show will appear in November at Bethlem Hospital’s Museum of the Mind. On July 1, curator Nicholas Tromans will give a lecture about his discoveries.

Information: Down Lane, Compton, Guildford, Surrey, GU3 1DQ, England, 01483 810235, wattsgallery.org.uk

At London’s Savile Club, Richard and Leonée Ormond (left) lunched recently with Neill Slaughter and Jeannette Hektoen to celebrate the imminent arrival of the Sargent exhibition in New York City.

expatriate John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). Because they were rarely commissioned, these are more radical than those he created for paying clients. The show was organized

by Richard Ormond, the artist’s grandnephew and principal author of the nine-volume Sargent catalogue raisonné.

In Norfolk this April, 88 sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln marked the 150th anniversary of the assassination of their ship's namesake’s by touring the Chrysler Museum of Art’s latest exhibition with curator Alex Mann. Shooting Lincoln: Photography and the Sixteenth President featured more than 40 vintage photographs by such talents as Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner.

Information:1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028, 212.535.7710, metmuseum.org

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Elizabeth Harris, Adele Wells, Madge Boudreau, Meredith Plesko, David Plesko

Mian Situ with Wendie and Steven Olshan

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Dr. Pozzi at Home, 1881, oil on canvas, 79 3/8 x 40 1/4 in., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

New York City

through October 4

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the second and final venue for an exhibition of approximately 90 portraits of artists, writers, actors, and musicians painted by the American F i n e A r t C o n n o i s s e u r · c o m

In Texas this May, the Fredericksburg Art Auction launched very successfully, with 88 percent of its 270 lots selling for a total of just over $5.8 million. More than 500 on-site and 280 off-site bidders competed for prime examples of historical and contemporary Western and American fine art. Organizing partners InSight Gallery (Fredericksburg) and Astoria Fine Art (Jackson Hole) also presented a show of recent paintings by Mian Situ (b. 1953). Photos: Marc Bennett (White Oak Studio)

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Art historian Deborah C. Pollack recently published a 372-page book, Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South. Focused on the period 1865-1950, it reveals how artists influenced the development of six New South cities: Atlanta, Charleston, New Orleans, Louisville, Austin, and Miami. After the Civil War, artists collaborated with “cultural strivers” — including philanthropists, women’s organizations, entrepreneurs, writers, architects, politicians, and dreamers — to champion the arts as mechanisms of cultural preservation and civic progress. Most books on Southern art emphasize creativity in the countryside; this one looks at large cities, a welcome approach we hope will be emulated. For details, visit sc.edu/uscpress.

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