Art Market Updates

Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900), The Backwoods of America, 1858. Oil on canvas. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2006.100.

A Divided Landscape

Currently on view at the Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, A Divided Landscape is a blending of contemporary and historic art confronting “the historical and cultural narratives of the American West.” The Momentary galleries and grounds will be filled with paintings, drawings, sculpture and mixed media installations by seven contemporary artists, as well as historical drawings and paintings from the collection at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, George Catlin, Jasper Francis Cropsey and others “that speak to the preservation of the dominant frontier narrative,” according to the institution. The exhibition is on view at the Momentary through September 25.

George Bellows (1882-1925), Green Breaker, 1913. Oil on panel.

Two Centuries of Artists in Maine

Running June 25 through November 6, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents At First Light: Two Centuries of Artists in Maine. The exhibition showcases artworks created in Maine over the last two centuries and sheds light on the pivotal role the visual arts have played in the state’s history. Works in the exhibition come from such esteemed artists as Marsden Hartley, George Bellows, Winslow Homer and William Zorach, among others.

Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Large Reclining Nude, 1935. Oil on canvas, 261/8 x 36¾ in. Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland, 1950.258. © 2022 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Matisse in the 1930s

Matisse in the 1930s is the first exhibition ever dedicated to the pivotal decade of the 1930s in the art of influential 20th-century artist Henri Matisse. Hosted by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris and the Musée Matisse Nice, the exhibition features more than 100 works by Matisse, ranging from both renowned and rarely seen paintings and sculptures, as well as drawings, prints and illustrated books. Documentary photographs and films will also be available for visitors to explore. The traveling exhibition begins at the Philadelphia Museum of Art—the only United States venue—on October 19, 2022 and runs through January 29, 2023.

Landmark Gordon Parks acquisition

Washington, D.C.-based Howard University and The Gordon Parks Foundation recently acquired a historic collection of 244 photographs by celebrated African American photographer Gordon Parks. The landmark grouping of works represents the arc of the artist’s career over 50 years, spanning Parks’ earliest photographs in the 1940s up to the 1990s, making “it one of the most comprehensive resources for the study of [his] life and work anywhere in the world.” The Gordon Parks Legacy collection, a combined gift and purchase, will be housed in the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.

New ADAA Members

The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) recently announced the addition of 14 new members, one of the largest membership classes in the association’s history, with galleries joining from New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Palm Beach. The non-profit organization of fine art dealers currently includes nearly 200 members from more than 30 cities across the country, representing thousands of established and emerging artists and estates. The new members for 2022 are Peg Alston Fine Arts, Chapter NY, CONNERSMITH, Derek Eller Gallery, GAVLAK, Nathalie Karg Gallery, Shulamit Nazarian, Parrasch Heijnen, Almine Rech, Rosenberg & Co., SAPAR Contemporary, Two Palms, Von Lintel Gallery and YOSHII.

Joseph E. Yoakum (1981-1972), Grizzly Gulch Valley Ohansburg Vermont. Black ballpoint pen and watercolor on paper, 77/8 x 97/8 in. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the Raymond K. Yoshida Living Trust and Kohler Foundation, Inc., 2013.

Joseph E. Yoakum retrospective

Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw is the first major museum retrospective in more than 25 years to focus on the dream-like landscape drawings of Joseph Elmer Yoakum (1891-1972), a self-taught, visionary American artist. The show illuminates the artist’s vivid creativity and imaginative vision, having begun his artistic career at the age of 71. The exhibition takes place at the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, Texas, through August 7 and features more than 80 drawings by Yoakum, most coming from the collections of Chicago-based artists affiliated with the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition was previously held at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art.