NEW YORK, NY.- artnet Auctions presents the American Art Sale, a selection of important 19th and 20th century artworks, comprised of over 60 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures by American artists, such as Edward Hopper (1882-1967), John Marin (1870-1953), Elie Nadelman (1885-1946), Morris Graves (1910-2001), Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), Martin Lewis (1881-1962), Ben Shahn (1898-1969), Edward Willis Redfield (1869-1965), and Grant Wood (1891-1942). Featured in the sale is Dark Table by Virginia-born Social Realist painter and printmaker, Robert Gwathmey. Gwathmey is known for his empathetic and emotional portrayal of the working class and oppressed in the American south. His immediately-recognizable palate-use of flat geometric forms and bold coloration-can be attributed to the artist’s early years spent in the Virginia countryside, of which he said: “I was raised in Tidewater, Virginia, there where the land is flat and the roads are wide. That’s where I had all of my