Browsing Tag American Art

September 9, 2023

Swann Galleries’ September 21, 2023, American Art sale features a special section of approximately 30 works by Will Barnet from the artist’s estate.  A Career That Spans…

Will Barnet, Study for “Summer Idyll,” oil, pen & ink, 1975. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
August 29, 2023

There are numerous dynamic works by early twentieth- century American modernists, including Edward Hopper, Abraham Walkowitz, Oscar Bluemner, Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth,…

May 30, 2023

The date was mid-April 1966 and Norman Dolph sat at the soundboard at the ramshackle Scepter Studios on West 54th Street in Manhattan, recording songs by a quartet…

March 20, 2023

Joseph Cornell & His Own Brand of American Surrealism Though now considered one of the few American proponents of Surrealism, Joseph Cornell was apprehensive about the…

September 19, 2022

Our prints and drawings department shares their favorite lots from the September 22, 2022 sale of American Art.

August 26, 2022

This signature sale will showcase important works by American Impressionist artists including Edward Potthast, Julian Alden Weir, and John Henry Twachtman, as well as modernist…

August 22, 2022

The 1920s were a time of prosperity in America. World War I had ended and the pessimism of the 1910s turned into optimism for modern life. American artists continued to focus on…

August 8, 2022

“I think I’m in the tradition of a certain kind of American artist (…) Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline—they all had this austere beauty to them. They found beauty in…

July 7, 2022

The 1913 Armory Show Inspired by time spent in Europe, around 1910, Arthur Dove became the first American artist to paint an abstract painting. At this time, abstract art was…

June 27, 2022

James Macry in our prints and drawings department examines two works that exemplify the market for Edward Hopper prints Edward Hopper first began printmaking in 1915, following…