Market Reports

What we're hearing from galleries, auction houses and museums across the country

The Avery Galleries interior.

Richard Rossello, Principal, Avery Galleries

Up until the COVID-19 quarantine, we were seeing significant strengthening in the market. Demand was strong for good examples of marquis artists across a broad time spectrum. We were particularly pleased to see a resurgence of interest in late-19th-century works and American impressionism. Since the quarantine, things have slowed, but we are still hearing from people via our website and social media platforms. We have increased our outreach in these areas, and the response has been better than we had hoped.

So far this year we have placed works by Winslow Homer, members of the Ten and well-known American modernists. The modernist market has been strong for some time now, and we are working to reintroduce the important Philadelphia area artists who were so influential in the development of that movement. Specifically, Arthur B. Carles and Hugh H. Breckenridge—artists who are less well known today because they were not part of the “Stieglitz Circle” in New York, but who nevertheless had a profound impact on the direction and development of the modernist movement.

In addition to Carles and Breckenridge, we feel that there are a number of great artists who are not yet widely recognized. For many years we have focused on finding great examples by American women artists and some favorites among them are Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, early works by Nancy Maybin Ferguson, Annie Traquair Lang and Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones. Coincidentally, Annie Traquair Lang lost her life in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. —

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