Art Market Updates

Maurice Braun (1877-1941), California Hills, 1914. Oil on canvas, 41 x 53 in. Gift of the Irvine Museum.

Beyond the Frame
Digital meets traditional in this immersive online exhibition presented by the UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA). Beyond the Frame: Impressions of California is an interactive, digital experience showcasing a selection of Langson IMCA’s collection of California Impressionist paintings. Art lovers can move through 28 paintings by 25 historic artists—including Maurice Braun, Elanor Colburn, Edgar Payne, Charles Rollo Peters, Granville Redmond and Guy Rose—accompanied by new insights about the genre, background information about each of the artists, art historical context and environmental history. The show is best viewed on your largest monitor at full screen with headphones. Beyond the Frame will be available at www.imca.uci.edu/exhibition/beyond-the-frame through September 12, 2025.

Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993), Green, 1986. Color aquatint, spit-bite aquatint, soap-ground aquatint and drypoint, 53 11⁄16 x 40¾ in. Crown Point Press Archive, gift of Crown Point Press, 1991.28.1274. © Richard Diebenkorn Foundation.

Richard Diebenkorn in Color
The de Young Museum, part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, presents Richard Diebenkorn in Color at Crown Point Press, part of the centennial celebrating the life and work of Richard Diebenkorn. The exhibition features a chronological survey of 20 prints from Diebenkorn’s color printmaking sessions at Crown Point Press, including color woodcuts produced at its program in Kyoto, Japan. Diebenkorn made his first color prints at Crown Point Press in 1980 and produced many more over the following 13 years. The exhibition is on view through February 12.

Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874-1960), Church at Ranchos de Taos, before 1917. Oil on canvas, 45½ x 47½ in. Courtesy American Museum of Western Art - The Anschutz Collection. Photo by William J. O’Connor.Near East to Far West
More than 80 artworks exploring the ways in which the style and substance of French Orientalism directly influenced American artists and their representations of the American West are on view in an exhibition opening at the Denver Art Museum. “French Orientalism refers to artworks produced by French artists during the 1800s inspired by North Africa and the greater Islamic world,” the Denver Art Museum notes. Near East to Far West: Fictions of French and American Colonialism is on view March 5 to May 28.

On the Horizon
Over the course of the 19th century, scientists, artists and society at large developed a deeper understanding of air. Earlier, natural philosophers had demonstrated that the ambient atmosphere was not an “airy nothing” but an entity of substance, with distinct properties and capacities. Running through February 12 at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, On the Horizon: Art and Atmosphere in the Nineteenth Century investigates how artists incorporated new scientific and technological understandings of the atmosphere into their works and
creative practices.

The new Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State. View from the Overlook Pavilion in the Arboretum. Architect: Allied Works. Rendering: Courtesy MIR.

Palmer Museum Undergoes Reconstruction
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State is set to begin a phased transition in early 2023 in preparation to move from its existing building into a new facility. Currently under construction, this new 71,000-square-foot space will directly neighbor the H.O. Smith Botanic Gardens, all located within the Arboretum at Penn State. The larger facility will allow for flexible event spaces, a teaching gallery and educational space, as well as nearly twice the exhibition space of the current museum, allowing for expanded student, faculty and public access to Penn State’s collection of more than 10,000 works of art.

Ron Gorchov (1930-2020), UNTITLED, 1972. Watercolor on paper, 14¾ x 12 in. CR# RG.41685.

Ron Gorchov: Watercolors
An exhibition at New York City-based gallery Cheim & Read surveys the artwork of 20th-century American abstract painter Ron Gorchov, known for his colorful paintings on curved canvases. Ron Gorchov: Watercolors 1968 - 1980 is filled with “intimate, revelatory works by one of the most influential painters of the past half-century,” the gallery notes. The show remains on view through January 14. This is the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery.

People & Places

Phillips recently announced the appointment of Joyce Goss as the company’s first regional director, Texas. In her Dallas-based role, Goss will work to cultivate networks among collectors, dealers, curators, museums and foundations across all of Phillips’ collecting categories, including 20th-century and contemporary art, photographs, design, editions, jewelry and watches.

Scheduled for fall 2023, White Cube will open its first public art gallery in New York. Ahead of the end-of-year launch, the gallery has just appointed Courtney Willis Blair as US senior director. Blair is the founder of Entre Nous, an international body of Black women art dealers established in 2016. She will join White Cube this January 2023.

Art dealer and Gagosian Gallery owner Larry Gagosian has announced the formation of a Board of Directors at Gagosian that brings together leading figures from across industries and the global art community. The board is made up of 12 external members and eight internal members, including Gagosian himself, and meets twice annually to provide strategic insight and guidance for the gallery.