Hawthorne Fine Art will support the efforts of the newly founded Feminist Art Coalition in their plan to sponsor a national series of events dedicated to the careers of women artists. The series will take place from September to November in the fall of 2020 and will incorporate the efforts of a range of museums, nonprofit… Continue reading American Museum Coalition Plans Exhibition of Women Artists
Hawthorne Fine Art is pleased to announce the fall exhibition “Triumphant Lives: American Women Artists (1795-1950),” which will open on October 18th and run through January 18, 2019. The exhibition illustrates the achievements in the fine arts of women from the early American colonial period up until the period of midcentury Modernism. The still-lifes, landscapes,… Continue reading Triumphant Lives: American Women Artists (1795-1950)
The rise of the American beach resort town as a tourist destination coincided with rapid industrialization in the nineteenth century. While visits to the coast were common in the first half of the nineteenth century, mostly for reasons related to health, the seashore came to symbolize recreation, leisure, and even anti-urban values by the latter… Continue reading Summer Reading: Sand and Beaches
This past June, a painting by the nineteenth century artist Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942) broke records during Freeman’s “American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists” auction [fig. 1]. The painting, named Ethel Page as Undine, sold for a record $454,000 to a New England institution and set the new world auction record for the artist. According to Freeman’s, this… Continue reading Historic Women Artists Shine Internationally in 2019
Winslow Homer (1836-1910), Fishing, 1878. Charcoal and watercolor on paper, 8 13/16 x 10 9/16 inches, signed lower right. Hawthorne Fine Art Celebrates Spring through Participation in the Lyndhurst Flower & Antiques Show & Saleat Tarrytown’s Historic Lyndhurst Mansion with a Preview of the Exhibition, “Blossoms: A Botanical Exploration of Spring in American Art” February… Continue reading Hawthorne Fine Art at the Lyndhurst Flower & Antiques Show & Sale, April 6-7, 2019
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), Western Scenery, oil on paper mounted to panel, 12 1/2 x 9 ¾ inches, signed lower left. Guy C. Wiggins, Columbus Circle, c. 1920, oil on board, 5 ½ x 4 inches, signed lower left, March 2019, New York, NY – Whether used as a focal point or a subtle complement to an overall… Continue reading Hawthorne Fine Art at the Architectural Digest Design Show, March 21-24, 2019
The end of the nineteenth century saw the pinnacle of the nature spiritualism first advocated by the American Transcendentalists in the 1830s. By the 1880s and 1890s, the writings of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as the art of Thomas Cole, had acquired a cult-like status.[1] This led to the founding… Continue reading Susie Barstow (1836-1923) in the White Mountains
Situated along the Hudson River, the town of Nyack, New York has been a popular fishing spot since the pre-Colonial period. The Tappan American Indians named the area near the river “Nay-Ack,” which is an Algonquin term for corner or ‘point,’ and would visit the area in the summer to fish and collect oysters.[1] After… Continue reading Room with a View: The Hopper Home in Nyack, New York
Hawthorne Fine Art is excited to announce it will participate in the upcoming Greenwich Antiques Show from November 30th to December 2nd at the Greenwich Civic Center in Connecticut. As a Manhattan-based gallery showcasing 19th and early 20th century American Art, Hawthorne Fine Art will exhibit works by Connecticut Impressionists like Clark Voorhees and Robert… Continue reading Hawthorne Fine Art at the Greenwich Antiques Show, Nov. 30-Dec. 2
Hawthorne Fine Art is pleased to present a new group show entitled, “Breaking All Bounds: American Women Artists (1825-1945), An Exhibition and Sale.” The majority of the works from this show date from the period in the nineteenth century when academic training was primarily for men. Beginning in the Gilded Age, during the rise of… Continue reading Breaking All Bounds: American Women Artists (1825-1945), An Exhibition and Sale
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