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
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
Truman Capote once wrote of New York City: “I love New York, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” It is a sentiment that countless creative types have experienced over the last… Continue reading Exhibition: “Our Metropolis: Paintings of New York City by American Artists”
Artists have been recording the act of ‘promenading’ for display in public spaces since its rise in popularity in the late eighteenth century. The great French flaneur Constantin Guys (1805-1892) made several works depicting a promenade, which in Paris was “at once the activity of taking a stroll or a horse or carriage tour, and… Continue reading Picturing Public Space in New York City circa 1900
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