American Fine Art Magazine

American Fine Art Magazine is the first publication to offer complete and comprehensive coverage of the upcoming shows, auctions and events of this market so deeply tied to American history, society and culture.

The World of Modernism

American Fine Art Magazine • MAY/JUNE 2023 BIMONTHLY

Rediscovering the Past

ART SHOW CALENDAR • THE BEST FAIRS, EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS COAST TO COAST

AUCTIONS AT A GLANCE

ART MARKET UPDATES

PEOPLE & PLACES

WHAT WE’RE HEARING FROM GALLERIES AND AUCTION HOUSES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

RECENT ARRIVALS • INSIGHTS INTO HISTORIC AMERICAN ARTWORK NEWLY AVAILABLE FROM GALLERIES AND DEALERS AROUND THE COUNTRY

KITSCH, PROPAGANDA, AND THE AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE

FREMONT ELLIS • PHOENIX ART MUSEUM

EASTMAN JOHNSON • NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

WE ASK LEADING MUSEUM CURATORS ABOUT WHAT’S GOING ON IN THEIR WORLD

MODERNIST MYSTIC • Visionary symbolist Agnes Pelton continues to gain notoriety more than 60 years after her death, and a lifetime immersed in a world of spiritual and esoteric abstraction.

STAY CONNECTED to Historic American Art • ONLY $45 FOR 6 ISSUES!

The Biggest Week for Art in the Big Apple

TO SEE TAKES TIME • An exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe’s drawings record the artist’s rigorous training to align her vision and then capture it, first on paper and eventually on canvas.

Uncompromising Standards • The American Art Fair upholds tradition while broadening its offerings to reflect collector’s evolving tastes

LECTURE SCHEDULE

Floral Revelations • Hawthorne Fine Art showcases supreme examples of still lifes painted by women artists during the 19th and 20th centuries

Innovative Covers • New York’s Helicline Fine Art explores the work of illustrator Antonio Petruccelli

What Once was Lost, Now is Found • Lincoln Glenn Gallery features a rare exhibition of six large-scale oil paintings by abstract expressionist Alan Fenton

Southwestern expression • The always-changing West is the subject of an ongoing show now up at D. Wigmore Fine Art in New York

Golden Era • 20th-century illustrators and landscape artists will have a strong showing at Bonhams’ American art sale

Multiple MODERNITIES • An exploration of the distinctions between modern, modernity and modernism in the historical context of American art.

THE MODERNIST PERSPECTIVE

FEATURED GALLERIES

City Works • An exhibition featuring the architectural works of modernist Edward Biberman will be on view this May

International Influences • An exhibition at J. Kenneth Fine Art highlights key but often overlooked artists in the Eastern European diaspora

Otherworldly • The Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosts the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the New Mexico-based Transcendental Painting Group

Natural Forms • The studios of iconic modernists Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore are recreated in a traveling exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art

At the Dawn of a New Age • The Norton Museum of Art hosts a series of modern art exhibitions with a special, diverse collection on loan from the Whitney

Seen Anew • The Wadsworth Museum presents a new configuration from the collection of American and European modernism

Home Places • The Brandywine Museum presents paintings and drawings of the landmarks that inspired Andrew Wyeth throughout his life and career

Diverse Visions • Heritage Auctions offers a large variety of American art at a May 12 sale in Dallas

Spotlighting Nature • Fern Coppedge works headline strong offerings of American landscapes in Hindman’s May sale

Top Notch • Freeman’s holds...