D. Wigmore Fine Art

D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. was established in 1980 to specialize in the major historic styles of American art. The gallery owns an extensive inventory of 19th and 20th century works that center on four historic styles of American art: Hudson River School (1840-1880); Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (1880-1920); the Precisionist, Fauve and Cubist Realist styles of Modernism (1910-1947); and the rural and urban styles of the American Scene of the 1930's-1940's. In each of these movements D. Wigmore Fine Art looks for classic examples from the best periods of well-known artists.

In the Hudson River School, we regularly buy and sell paintings by Albert Bierstadt, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Samuel Colman, Jasper Cropsey, Asher B. Durand, Sanford R. Gifford, William S. Haseltine, George Inness, David Johnson, John F. Kensett, Jervis McEntee, William Trost Richards, and Thomas Worthington Whittredge.

In the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles of the 1880's to the 1920's, we have works by The Boston Ten (Frank Benson, William Merritt Chase, Joseph DeCamp, Thomas Dewing, Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Robert Reid, Edward Simmons, Edmund Tarbell, John Twachtman, and Julian Alden Weir) and The New York Eight (Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan).

Our inventory includes the Precisionist, Fauve and Cubist Realist styles of Modernism between 1910 and 1947, practiced by such artists as George Ault, Oscar Bluemner, Ralston Crawford, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Preston Dickinson, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Alfred Maurer, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, and Max Weber.

The rural and urban American Scene styles of the 1930's and 1940's are a major focus of D. Wigmore Fine Art. We handle the paintings and WPA murals of Thomas Hart Benton, Aaron Bohrod, Charles Burchfield, John Steuart Curry, Adolf Dehn, Joe Jones, Rockwell Kent, Doris Lee, Luigi Lucioni, Reginald Marsh, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Dale Nichols, Paul Sample, and Isaac, Raphael, and Moses Soyer.

The gallery has a developing inventory that represents the non-objective styles of the 1930's-1940's pioneers of Geometric Abstraction, such as Ilya Bolotowsky, Burgoyne Diller, Werner Drewes, John Ferren, Suzy Frelinghuysen, Balcomb and Gertrude Greene, Paul Kelpe, George L.K. Morris, Irene Rice Pereira, Rolph Scarlett, and Charles Green Shaw. We also include styles representing further developments in abstraction from the 1950's through the 1970's with the Abstract Expressionists, Op-Artists and California Hard Edge painters. Our first Abstract Expressionism exhibition will be Paul Jenkins, 1955-1960, Space, Color and Light in February of 2007. The gallery recently extended its historical range to include artists of the 1960's Optical Art movement. Artists included in the Museum of Modern Art's 1965 exhibition The Responsive Eye are of particular interest, such as Richard Anuszkiewicz, Larry Bell, Karl Benjamin, Gene Davis, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley, Alexander Liberman, John McLaughlin, Ad Reinhardt, Ludwig Sander, Frank Stella, and Julian Stanczak.

We welcome inquiries regarding the sale and purchase of American art.

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