A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. … So begins the first line of John Keats’s narrative poem, Endymion, a nineteenth-century retelling of the classic Greek myth, in which the protagonist explores the relationships between love, beauty and the human condition. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. Its loveliness increases;… Continue reading Exhibition: A Joy Forever at Hawthorne Fine Art

Hawthorne Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of its upcoming exhibition, Electrical in Movement: American Women Artists at Work. Featuring a diverse group of women artists who were active throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the exhibition seeks to examine the unexpected skill and dexterity which these women contributed to the… Continue reading Electrical in Movement: American Women Artists at Work

We are truly lucky to have Lauren Sansaricq in our midst. At only 25, she has embodied the techniques and skill-set seen in Hudson River School American painters, such as Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) and Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), who have long-since passed away. Sansaricq is the key to continuing the tradition that defines America’s traditional… Continue reading Lauren Sansaricq at ArtsWestchester

Hawthorne Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of its upcoming exhibition, Ever So Faithful: The Pre-Raphaelite Landscapes of Edward Custer (1837-1881). Featuring a diverse group of newly-acquired works by the artist, the exhibition seeks to examine the work of this American painter with a focus on his highly detailed landscapes. The paintings on… Continue reading Ever So Faithful: The Pre-Raphaelite Landscapes of Edward L. Custer (1837-1881)

By Courtney A. Lynch The gambrel-roof cottage, like so many of the old New England houses, is close to the street, but it is a few feet below the sidewalk level, and what with the draw wall, the hedge, and the slope of the grounds, there is an admirable note of seclusion.[1] -H.S. Adams for… Continue reading An Admirable Note of Seclusion: The Garden of Clark Greenwood Voorhees

“George Walter Dawson to Amy & Thornton Oakley,” reads the inscription across the top of Dawson’s 1912 watercolor, White Water Lily. At first glance the inscription is a fairly innocuous textual anomaly: an addition made by the artist on the occasion of the painting’s transfer to his friends, the Oakleys. Yet, when one pauses to… Continue reading A Joy Forever: Holiday Gift Suggestions from Hawthorne Fine Art, December 3, 2014–January 30, 2015

By Courtney A. Lynch The fragrance of the apple blossom reminds me of a pure and innocent and unsophisticated country girl bedecked for church. – Henry David Thoreau¹ It is almost as if Thoreau were gazing at this very painting by Charles Courtney Curran as he pondered the simple, innocent pleasure of the apple blossom, just… Continue reading Charles Courtney Curran and the Apple in American Art

By Courtney A. Lynch New to the Hawthorne Fine Art collection is a painting by David Gilmour Blythe (1815-1865), titled By the Fire and dated circa 1856. Blythe, a self-taught genre painter, is best known for his moralizing observations of poverty and working class life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. By the Fire stands out as one… Continue reading David Gilmour Blythe at Hawthorne Fine Art and the Duquesne Club

By Courtney A. Lynch With the sultry dog days of summer upon us, we here at Hawthorne Fine Art are daydreaming of afternoons spent taking advantage of the green, public spaces so readily available to us here in New York City. This is, of course, suggested ever more clearly by two of our newest additions… Continue reading Washington Square Park & Union Square: Two Paintings of New York City from the Collection