The Norton Museum of Art will be the first in more than 75 years to showcase the sculpture of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney — an artist whose significant career saw major commissions throughout the United States and Europe in the early 20th century.

From her earliest classical sculptures to her more symbolic public monuments, and from her bleakly Realist depictions of the tragedy of World War I to her late Art Deco work, approximately 45 sculptures and drawings will offer viewers a comprehensive view of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s (1875-1942) artistic career, in an exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.  Whitney had an important career as she created “striking and popular public art in her lifetime,” says Ellen Roberts, exhibition curator, “and her incisive depictions of her family, friends, and scenes from World War I are still captivating today.”

“The installation will move chronologically through Whitney’s career,” the museum continues, “and will include photographs of Whitney’s monuments in the United States, France, and Spain; her nurse’s uniform from World War I; and depictions of the artist and her sculpture by contemporaries such as painters Robert Henri and Guy Pène du Bois, sculptor Jo Davidson, and graphic artist L. Gauthier. Seen alongside her art, these materials will help to illustrate Whitney’s artistic ambitions and her achievement of them.”

“Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Sculpture” opens on January 25 and will continue through April 29. To learn more, visit the Norton Museum of Art.

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Questroyal Fine Art in New York City can help add your name to the growing list of of collectors of Henry Martin Gasser, an artist distinguished by more than 100 awards in his lifetime and included in over 60 museum collections. How?

Now through December 9 in New York City, Questroyal Fine Art is offering a selling exhibition of works by the esteemed Henry Martin Gasser (1909-1981). Thirty-six works feature during the exhibition, which encompasses the artist’s entire career. According to Questroyal’s Alison Kowalski, “Henry Martin Gasser was an American painter in every sense. From his working-class industrial town, he sought out the greatest artists in the area in order to study from them, and he found inspiration in his backyard. Through persistence and a spirit of originality, Gasser turned humble scenes of urban American life in the mid-20th century into extraordinary works of art that were widely praised by the art world. After achieving fame for his paintings, he extended his reach further by educating future artists and writing instructional books on his innovative techniques.

“Despite its highly individualistic style, Gasser’s work still fits neatly into the tradition established by his American predecessors. In addition to exhibiting influence from Grabach, Gasser’s realist depictions of every­day life continued the legacy of the Ashcan painters. The majority of Gasser’s work portrays his native New Jersey. By the time he reached artistic maturity in the mid-20th century, Newark had become a major industrial center. Such cities, although the life force of American industry and ingenuity, were not known for their scenic qualities. Nonetheless, Gasser found beauty in his surroundings. His artworks typically feature urban scenes, such as residential streets lined with houses, and blue-collar suburban communities. Along with painting in New Jersey and New York, he embarked on excursions with Grabach to New England to capture coastal views and winter scenery. During World War II, Gasser was stationed in South Carolina as a sergeant in a Visual Aid Unit of the army, where he painted the vibrant Southern culture surrounding him.”

To learn more, visit Questroyal Fine Art.

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Jan Van Eyck’s important “Arnolfini Portrait” has been among the world’s most influential paintings since its creation in 1434. Acquired by the National Gallery, London, in 1842, the portrait then became an object of fascination for this important group of painters; a story that is told through this exhibition.

The National Gallery, London, is offering visitors the chance to explore how Jan Van Eyck’s (c.1390-1441) “Arnolfini Portrait” influenced the Pre-Raphaelites and their development of a radical new style of painting. Titled “Reflections,” the exhibition brings together for the first time the “Arnolfini Portrait” with paintings by, among others, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896), and William Holman Hunt (1827-1910).

To learn more, visit the National Gallery.

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The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is proud to host the first major temporary exhibition since the remodeled space opened its doors again in August — and it’s done quite an outstanding job. What’s the buzz?

On December 3, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) will open a stunning exhibition that examines the development and disruption of the American West through more than 80 artworks from one of the nation’s outstanding collections of Western art. “Go West! Art of the American Frontier from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West” will feature celebrated paintings, sculpture, and cultural objects by Euro-American and Plains Indian artists. “Altogether, they exemplify the ways in which newcomers mythologized their vision of the region, and Native peoples sought to preserve their vanishing way of life,” according to the museum’s director, Gretchen Dietrich.

Executive Director and CEO of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West Bruce Eldredge added, “‘Go West!’ features some of the center’s most extraordinary artwork from a ‘Who’s Who’ in art of the American West: Alfred Jacob Miller, William T. Ranney, John Mix Stanley, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, and W.H.D. Koerner, to name a few. Indeed, the works from this period were instrumental in shaping our perceptions of the American West — and still do today.

“We here at the Center of the West are on the trailing edge of our Centennial year — a grand celebration of our past, and a nod to the new century ahead. We’re committed to the vision of our namesake, and the organization founded in his memory in 1917, i.e., taking the West to the world. So, at a time when our foot traffic slows, Go West! allows us to do exactly that as we dispatch our most important and most popular works to other museums throughout the country during our ‘off season.’”

“Go West!” will continue through March 11, 2018. To learn more, visit the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

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Seventy of the world’s top experts in the fine and decorative arts will once again be on hand during the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory. A leading art, antiques, and design fair in America, the show highlights a dynamic mix of works dating from ancient times through the present day.

Come one, come all, the annual Winter Antiques Show is ready to ring in the new year! Hosted between January 19-28 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, the event is one of many outstanding fine art events that annually kick off the new year. In 2018, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond has loaned an important exhibition, “Collecting for the Commonwealth/Preserving for the Nation: Celebrating a Century of Art Patronage, 1919-2018,” for the fair.

The exhibition “celebrates a collection renowned for American fine and decorative art, including the transformative gift of the James W. and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Collection,” according to the press release. “VMFA holds the best Art Nouveau and Art Deco outside of Paris; French Impressionist, modern, and contemporary works from the collections of Paul Mellon and Sydney and Frances Lewis; the Lillian Thomas Pratt bequest of five Fabergé Imperial Eggs and over 500 additional Russian objects; and the recently acquired Rachel Lambert Mellon Collection of Jean Schlumberger, comprising over 140 pieces designed by the iconic artist-jeweler who boasted a private salon at Tiffany & Co.”

To learn more, visit the Winter Antiques Show.

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Groveland Gallery is honored to present a retrospective exhibition of work by one of Minnesota’s best known artists, Mike Lynch. The exhibition will feature a wide range of work spanning his 60-year career.

Woodcut prints and drawings from the 1960s; lithographs from the ’70s and ’80s; ink drawings, watercolors, and oil paintings from 1955 to the present will be included an exhibit surrounding the career of Mike Lynch at Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis.

“A true son of Minnesota, Mike Lynch was born in 1938 in Hibbing where his father was a mine watchman,” the gallery reports. “He studied art at the Town Hall Art Colony in Grand Marais and then attended the Minneapolis School of Art (now MCAD). In 1960, Lynch launched his career with a solo exhibition at the Kilbride-Bradley Gallery. Throughout the fifty-plus years since, Mike has received numerous grants and fellowships including the Bush Fellowship, Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowships, and the prestigious McKnight Foundation Distinguished Artist Award in 2003. He has exhibited at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Duluth Art Institute, Walker Art Center, and numerous galleries. Lynch has exhibited his work at Groveland Gallery since 1979. His work can be found in museum, corporate, and private collections throughout the Midwest, including the Minnesota Historical Society, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Walker Art Center, University of Minnesota, General Mills, the Minnesota Department of Revenue, Cargill, Minneapolis Federal Reserve, and many more, too numerous to list.

“A quiet and unassuming manner has served Mike Lynch well. He has developed the ability to observe and synthesize the essence of a place without inserting himself into it. Lynch is well known for his contemporary realist portraits of the Midwestern landscapes. He paints the small town corner bar, abandoned grain elevators, illuminated factories, and the twilight railyards found across our state from the Iron Range, to Duluth, to Minneapolis and the towns in between that dot the prairie. His subjects are represented in the quiet times of day — dusk, dawn, midnight and twilight. Lynch paints in the tradition of the American Scene Painters of the early 1900’s; he works on location and returns to paint day after day at the same time of day. Also included in the exhibition will be several of Lynch’s still life paintings. Humble subjects painted in half-light with a limited palette, these works evoke the same simplicity as his landscape paintings.”

Lynch will be present at the opening reception Saturday, January 20 from 2-5 p.m. The show continues through March 3, 2018. To learn more, visit Groveland Gallery.

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A special Holiday Season show highlighting a collection of small works by 12 of this gallery’s top most-collected Western painters will open soon!

Trailside Galleries will be showcasing small works by 12 of its most collected Western artists during its annual Holiday Season exhibition, opening December 1 and continuing through the 15th. In fact, there are two of these exhibitions, one at Trailside’s Scottsdale, Arizona, location and one at its Jackson, Wyoming, location.

In Scottsdale, viewers will encounter brilliant works by artists William Acheff, Bill Anton, Steve Atkinson, Bruce Cheever, John DeMott, Robert Duncan, Z.S. Liang, Dan Mieduch, S.C. Mummert, Mian Situ, Jeremy Winborg, and Morgan Weistling. In Jackson, represented artists include Ken Carlson, Adam Smith, Shawn Gould, Bruce Lawes, Bonnie Marris, Jhenna Quinn Lewis, Lindsay Scott, Kyle Sims, Linda St. Clair, Tucker Smith, Ezra Tucker, and Dustin Van Wechel.

According to the gallery, “This year the theme is geared to highlighting a select group of painters who will each provide a minimum of three small works for the event. The gallery has thoughtfully curated the works to give the show a balanced and well-rounded group of miniature paintings to offer its collectors.”

To learn more, visit Trailside Galleries.

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It could be perhaps the most innovative and interesting animal-themed art exhibition you’ll ever see. This immersive 20,000-square-foot exhibition explores the eternal connection between art, nature, and science. Who’s the artist, and where is the show?

On view at the Gallery of Amazing Things in Dania Beach, Florida, “Biophilia” is an amazing display of artistic ingenuity, talent, and ambition. Over 400 original works by artist Christopher Marley compose the installation, which are also made from nature — including animals, vegetables, and minerals. “All of the organisms used in his work are either reclaimed (vertebrates), or sustainably harvested (invertebrates),” according to the press release.

“Art’s purpose is to heighten our aesthetic sensibilities, to sharpen our ability to experience beauty, to empathize with those life systems we come into contact with, to derive pleasure or stimulation from our interaction with arranged elements, in whole or in part,” Marley explains. The exhibition will open on December 6 and continue through March 31, 2018.

To learn more, visit Gallery of Amazing Things.

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