Important American painter and third-generation artist Nelson H. White will mount a stunning arrangement of more than 25 paintings at Grenning Gallery in New York this summer. His skillful strokes capture gorgeous landscapes, and viewers will be left with a lasting impression.

Third-generation artist Nelson H. White has been surrounded by great art since birth as both his father and grandfather were important American painters. Born and raised in Connecticut, White had the opportunity to observe and meet many of the greatest impressionists of the early 20th century, undoubtedly using their influence to create his own unique and individual style.

On view from July 8 through July 23 at Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor, New York, White will be presenting a carefully selected body of about 28 recent paintings. Although the exhibition features a cityscape and self-portrait, it is largely composed of remarkable seascapes and beach views in strong horizontal orientation.

Via the gallery, “Although he has received instruction from some very important artists, White’s work is highly individual. He paints with great spirit. Upon seeing his work one quickly senses White’s great love for nature and the outdoors. Through his eyes we are able to view and interpret nature in an intimate manner. Whether Nelson H. White is painting the Connecticut shore, a beach in Italy, a pond on Shelter Island, or the hills of Vermont, he allows the observer to view a soft, yet dramatic side of nature. His ability to use color, coupled with rich brushwork and a graduation of light, air, and atmosphere allows one to enjoy a certain mood which is clearly conveyed in White’s paintings. It is a mood that leaves us with a lasting impression.”

To learn more, visit Grenning Gallery.

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An opening reception will be held on July 7 for a major solo exhibition featuring the works of accomplished painter Daniel Gerhartz, whose timeless and romantic painting style has captivated viewers for years. Who’s the host?

“I don’t tire of classic beauty,” suggested artist Daniel Gerhartz when discussing his latest body of work. Collectors, galleries, and art enthusiasts aren’t getting tired of Gerhartz’s classic beauty either, and Meyer Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is expecting huge turnout for the artist’s latest solo exhibition that captures the inherent beauty of sacred-idyllic subjects. “I’m so enamored and captivated by classic beauty in every form,” says the artist, “and I’ve been gifted with a talent to convey that.”

With his expressive brushstrokes and a vibrant, harmonious color palette, Gerhartz’s creative reach extends to nearly every classic genre, including portraiture, landscape, narrative, still life, and figurative. “For his upcoming solo exhibition,” the gallery reports, “Gerhartz will present a series of works based on the poetic movement of ballet dancers in addition to his still lifes, landscapes, and figurative female portraits.

“Gerhartz’s enchantment with inherent beauty, whether it be a single blade of grass, the expression on his child’s face, or the bold colors of a morning sunrise, stems from his own spiritual nature and devotion to sharing imagery that strikes him as awe-inspiring. The artist’s work consists of classical subject matter rendered in a passionate and devotional manner, resulting in dynamic oil paintings that emanate the artist’s imbued intention. Rolling hills from his Wisconsin homeland, symbolic settings inspired by a piece of poetry or music, a poised female figure or intimate human gesture are common subjects found in Gerhartz’s work.

“His latest series captures the dedication, graceful intention, and astounding movement embodied by ballet dancers as he symbolically paints ballerinas in varied settings. ‘Dancer En Plein Air’ bows over a mountaintop while the figure in ‘Azure and Gold’ stands poised on a stage surrounded by streams of radiant light and color that seek to elevate her presence from the canvas.”

“Daniel Gerhartz: Solo Exhibition” opens on July 7 with a reception from 5-7 p.m. and will remain on view through July 13. To learn more, visit Meyer Gallery.

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Sotheby’s London will soon be offering up the only version of one of the most iconic works by Pre-Raphaelite master Dante Gabriel Rossetti remaining in private hands. Discover here which painting it is and when the hammer will drop.

The vibrant “Lady Lilith” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti was, for the artist, a celebration of his first mistress, Fanny Cornforth, and has been called a “hymn” to her glorious corn-gold hair. On July 13, for the first time in nearly three decades, the painting will head to auction, via Sotheby’s London. A highlight of the Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist sale, the painting was executed during the artist’s most innovative period in the 1860s. In fact, it was during this time that Rossetti helped establish the cult of Pre-Raphaelite beauty, making the painting enormously significant.

Two other versions of “Lady Lilith” were produced by Rossetti in the same decade and now hang in museums in the United States. The picture here has remained in a private collection. Simon Toll, Sotheby’s Victorian art specialist, says, “Rossetti’s work is a great passion of mine, and I have been lucky enough to bring to auction several important examples by him in recent years, breaking the world record for a watercolor, a drawing, and an oil painting. ‘Lady Lilith’ has always been one of my favorites, but I had never seen this particular picture ‘in the flesh.’ It was a moment of genuine excitement when I first saw it being unwrapped from the packing case in which it had been sent from Japan, its home for the last 30 years. Not only is the work in wonderful condition, it’s also in Rossetti’s original frame and with the artist’s hand-written poem attached to the backing-board. To find a picture in such an untouched condition is exceptionally rare.”

Auction estimates are around $500,000 to $700,000.

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An interesting take on illustration, vintage cartoons, comic books, and more opens soon at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. Find out here who the artist is and when her exhibition opens.

Emily Fromm is bringing a fresh artistic perspective to urban landscape during “OPEN LATE,” a solo exhibition this July at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. Fromm uses a range of techniques to create her paintings, which display clean lines and a flat, limited color palette. Calling to mind poster illustration, pop art, cartoons, and the marketing industry, Fromm’s work is clearly influenced by the “over-the-top yet seedy aesthetic of the American west, and highlights signage, architecture and the iconic style of the region” the gallery writes. “She applies a graphic style that is familiar and nostalgic to these settings, incorporating imagery that is mundane and often low brow, to contrast these grandiose scenes with everyday life.”

“OPEN LATE” opens on July 7 and continues through July 29. To learn more, visit 111 Minna Gallery.

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Winning artists from the Oil Painters of America’s 26th Annual National Juried Exhibition are here, and we have the full list!

Events just wrapped up in Cincinnati, Ohio, for the OPA’s 26th Annual National Juried Exhibition. The exhibition was hosted by Eisele Gallery of Fine Art, and juror William Whitaker waded through hundreds of submissions before revealing his winners.

In the Associate/Signature division, Jeanya Charles’ “The Little Sister” was the 2017 Gold Medal Award winner, earning the artist $25,000 cash, while Jan Peng Wang took home the Gold Medal Award for “Plateau Smoke,” earning the artist $7,500. Ardith Starostka and Sherrie McGraw earned Silver Medals for “Little Bird” and “On the Night of the Night Fires,” respectively, which came with a two-page featured article in American Art Collector magazine. David Gray’s “Boy” and Christopher Zhang’s “Old Man Smoking Pipe” were deemed 2017’s Bronze Medal winners, which garners them a full-page ad in PleinAir magazine and Fine Art Connoisseur. Finally, Adam Clague’s “Book Club” was awarded the Dorothy Driehaus Mellin Fellowship for Midwestern Artists, which earned the artist $20,000 in cash.

To learn more, visit the Oil Painters of America.

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Works by many of the most compelling American landscape painters feature during a hypnotic group exhibition that seeks to explore a number of engaging historical and contemporary concepts. Who’s included and where?

On view now through October 9 at the Heritage Museums & Gardens in Sandwich, Massachusetts, “Painted Landscapes” is an incredibly diverse group exhibition showcasing works by nearly 50 world-class artists. The aim of the robust show is to illuminate the compelling new ways in which contemporary artists both employ and interpret the traditional genre of landscape painting. Among the themes are artists who “address contemporary issues of land use, nature appreciation, and ecology through their paintings of the American environment,” the museum reports. “The exhibit examines landscape paintings in terms of their historical inspiration, their formal elements of structure and form, and their theoretical underpinnings in which a landscape could be read as a specific location or as a place of human experience.

“The exhibit features key aspects of what defines landscape paintings, including History & Inspiration (documenting change in America from a rural, agrarian society to the urban, populous place it has become, capturing the countryside, the seaside, and all the places artists live and work), Place (whether natural or man-made, urban or rural, real or imagined), Structure & Landscape (either imposed upon the natural landscape through man-made structures or in naturally occurring formal features of the landscape itself), The Tree (depiction of the common and familiar tree), and The Act of Painting (where the subject of ‘landscape’ and the place depicted are almost secondary to the process and stylist choices of the artists).” The exhibition was curated by Lauren P. Della Monica.

To learn more, visit the Heritage Museums & Gardens.

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Conveying color, texture, and a dynamic energy, the paintings of Peter Fiore are magnetic representations of the artist’s search to find something eternal and more meaningful. He also extends the same invitation to you, the viewer, during his latest solo show in New York.

On view June 30 through July 29 at Alliance Gallery in Narrowsburg, New York, “Pine Variations” is a display of painter Peter Fiore’s latest body of work exploring tree “portraits.” In his pursuit of what he calls “a universal moment in our commonplace world,” Fiore has repeatedly represented a white pine tree located close to his home studio. “This work exemplifies my ongoing visual investigation,” he says. “I like to visit a motif repeatedly to learn its faceted nature throughout the year.

“I’m looking for something eternal and more meaningful. My tree portraits continue the pursuit of communicating a complexity of feelings within the works, while also seeking to display the unique character within a single tree. Featured is a closely cropped tree, its branches dancing from edge to edge, anchored by a steady central trunk — this bifurcating vertical is the dominant element. Such a design has the potential to divide the composition in a way that depletes it of energy, but that is the challenge — a command to depart from the norm. A square is stability and, as such, has no innate force.

“I paint almost exclusively in a square format, embracing the absolute symmetry and universality of the shape. Therefore, I’m tasked with infusing energy into the piece by extracting it from within the subject matter. One needs to work intelligently to make a successful composition. I relish this challenge, which forces me to rely on hand and heart to bring movement to an otherwise static shape.

“I revel in the questions, not the answers. I continue my visual journey, eager to discover the next direction. The physicality of process remains paramount to my work, as it has from the beginning. Painting is cultural. Painting is thinking. Painting is passion. Painting is education. Painting is intellectual. I am creating a poetry that goes beyond the surface, and I have questions.”

To learn more, visit Alliance Gallery.

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A little known, but incredibly moving exhibition is currently on view this summer featuring a privately owned Rembrandt painting shown to the public only a handful of times. Generously loaned to this institution, the painting has sparked an exhibition.

The Frick Collection in New York City was the recent recipient of a remarkable loan from a private collection. Currently on view now through August 20 is Rembrandt van Rijn’s captivating and luminous “Abraham Entertaining the Angels” of 1646. Only shown a handful of times to the public, the generous loan sparked the Frick to mount “Divine Encounter” — a “tightly focused exhibition in which the painting appears alongside other depictions by Rembrandt of the Old Testament figure Abraham — a spectacular selection of prints and drawings from American and international collections,” the museum writes.

The show offers viewers a chance to understand Rembrandt’s approach to history painting and the artist’s shift towards religious subject matter from the late 1630s to the late 1650s. “In them,” the Frick continues, “the artist took a progressively deeper interest in the psychological content of the Abraham story, specifically the emotional experience of a father confronting the most magnificent of blessings and the most heartbreaking of losses. At the same time, Rembrandt also began to move away from the physicality and instantaneity of his earlier narrative work in favor of imagery characterized instead by an overwhelming sense of stillness and calm. These are the defining qualities of his 1646 ‘Abraham Entertaining the Angels,’ in which the momentous nature of the event depicted is conveyed solely through light and a single, gently raised hand.”

To learn more, visit The Frick Collection.

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In celebration and commemoration of the centennial of Andrew Wyeth’s birth on July 12, 1917, the United States Postal Service will release a series of stamps embellished with some of the artist’s most iconic works. We have a preview here!

The great American realist Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) will soon be honored by the United States Postal Service with a series of 12 stamps featuring iconic works from throughout his career. Released on July 12, the stamps are a celebration of the centennial of the artist’s birth.

A dedication ceremony for the Andrew Wyeth Forever stamps will be hosted at the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, on July 12. The ceremony will be attended by the artist’s son, Jamie Wyeth, U.S. Postal Service Senior Director and Chief of Staff to the Postmaster General Patrick Mendonca, and Frolic Weymouth Executive Director and CEO Virginia A. Logan.

Via the USPS announcement: “This pane of 12 Forever stamps celebrates the centennial of the birth of Andrew Wyeth (July 12, 1917-Jan. 16, 2009), one of the most prominent American artists of the 20th century. Working in a realistic style that defied artistic trends, Wyeth created haunting and enigmatic paintings based largely on people and places in his life, a body of work that continues to resist easy or comfortable interpretation.

“This issuance includes stamps that each feature a detail from a different Andrew Wyeth painting. The paintings are: ‘Wind from the Sea’ (1947), ‘Big Room’ (1988), ‘Christina’s World’ (1948), ‘Alvaro and Christina’ (1968), ‘Frostbitten’ (1962), ‘Sailor’s Valentine’ (1985), ‘Soaring’ (1942–1950), ‘North Light’ (1984), ‘Spring Fed’ (1967), ‘The Carry’ (2003), ‘Young Bull’ (1960), and ‘My Studio’ (1974). The selvage, or area outside of the stamp images, shows a photograph of Wyeth from the 1930s. Art director Derry Noyes of Washington, DC, designed the pane.”

To learn more, visit the USPS.

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