Tag: American Folk Art

Caroline Kerrigan Lerch Named Metropolitan Show Director

NEW YORK, NY.- Caroline Kerrigan Lerch was named Show Director for the Metropolitan Show, it was announced by Mark Lyman, President of the Art Fair Company. The inaugural fair, which debuts January 18-22, 2012, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, at 125 Wes…

The Metropolitan Art Show: New Art and Antique Fair Replaces the American Antiques Show

NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Fair Company, which presents the Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fairs and the Art and Antique Dealers League Spring Show NYC, will launch The Metropolitan Art Show: Art & Antiques @ The Pavilion, a new art and antique fair wh…

"A Debt to Pleasure": Allegory and Realism in Contemporary Painting at Montserrat College of Art

BEVERLY, MA.- Montserrat College of Art Galleries presents the works of Julie Heffernan, David Ording, Shelley Reed, Erik Thor Sandberg, and Anne Siems in a provocative exhibition of contemporary painting, “A Debt to Pleasure,” curated by Gal…

First New York City Museum Exhibition in All Media at American Folk Art Museum

NEW YORK, NY.- Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983) was one of the most complex and multifaceted self-taught artists in the United States. Over a fifty-year period, between the late 1930s until his death in 1983, Von Bruenchenhein produced expans…

An Impressive and Comprehensive Collection of Glorious Quilts Celebrate the "Year of the Quilt"

NEW YORK, NY.- The artistry of America’s quilt heritage will be highlighted in the “Year of the Quilt”— an unprecedented twelve-month-long series of exhibitions, special events, and educational programming focusing on the creative contributions of…

Americana Sale at Sotheby’s Features the Collection of Frank and June Barsalona

NEW YORK, NY.- On 30 September, Sotheby’s will hold an auction of Important Americana including furniture, folk art and silver. The sale features the Collection of Frank and June Barsalona, a superb group of American folk art including paintings, …

Christie’s to Offer Works from the Alastair Bradley Martin Estate

NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, Christie’s will present selections from the estate of the renowned collector Alastair Bradley Martin. For more than 50 years, Mr. Martin and his wife Edith built an encyclopedic collection of rare and important art works and s…

Christie’s to Offer Works from the Alastair Bradley Martin Estate

NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, Christie’s will present selections from the estate of the renowned collector Alastair Bradley Martin. For more than 50 years, Mr. Martin and his wife Edith built an encyclopedic collection of rare and important art works and s…

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