Esphyr Slobodkina, Tabletop Gazelle, 1938
Architects of Being: Louise Nevelson and Esphyr Slobodkina
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR
October 2, 2025 - January 11, 2026
This exhibition puts Louise Nevelson and Esphyr Slobodkina in dialogue for the first time. Both women had an architectural approach to their art and faced challenges as immigrants, working women, and creative pioneers of abstraction. In their artworks—which reveal the two as fellow travelers in the legacy of cubism, surrealism, and constructivism—assemblage is an important unifying theme. Works include found object sculptures, mixed media reliefs, collage, painting, jewelry, and clothing, including some of Nevelson’s most iconic fashion statements.
After the exhibition’s premiere at AMFA, it will go on tour to the Chrysler Museum of Art and the New Britain Museum of American Art in 2026.
The gallery arranged the loan of Tabletop Gazelle, a rare 1938 construction now in a private collection.
Press: The Arkansas Times
Ben Shahn, Harvesting Wheat, 1941, 33 x 44 1/2 inches, buon fresco
Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity
The Jewish Museum, New York
May 23 - October 26, 2025
This exhibition examines Shahn’s commitment to chronicling and confronting crucial issues of his era, spanning from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, as well as his exploration of spirituality and Jewish texts. Featuring 175 artworks and objects from the 1930s to the 1960s, including paintings, mural studies, prints, photographs, commercial designs, and ephemera, the exhibition highlights the enduring relevance of Shahn’s art across media, while revealing new insights into the complexity of his aesthetic and his decisive shift from documentary to allegorical and poetic styles in pursuit of a visual language that would resonate widely.
The gallery has loaned the preparatory fresco for Shahn’s 1942 DC mural The Meaning of Social Security and a poster maquette You’re Stronger than Steel, 1937.
Ernest Fiene (1894-1965), Hudson River Boat II, 1927, 26 x 28 inches, oil on canvas
The Armory South: The 1924 Jacksonville Woman's Club Exhibition Rediscovered
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Florida
April 10- November 23, 2025
This exhibition reassembles core works from a forgotten but seminal Modernist exhibition mounted in March 1924 by the Woman’s Club of Jacksonville and the newly founded Jacksonville Fine Arts Society (now MOCA). The 1924 exhibition marked the beginning of Modern art in the South. The exhibition was organized by four Jacksonville women led by Merrydelle Hoyt, a largely overlooked but pioneering advocate for Modern art in Florida, and curated by the artist Wood Gaylor.
The gallery loaned Ernest Fiene’s Hudson River Boat II, 1927.
Margaret Wenstrup (1930-2008), Whirligig, 1964, 38 x 38 inches, acrylic on canvas
Kandinsky’s Universe: Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century
Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
Feb 15 - May 18, 2025
This exhibition spans six decades and showcases how Geometric Abstraction found radical expression in all its variations in Europe and the USA. It includes 125 works by over seventy artists. Cincinnati-artist Margaret Wenstrup hangs beside Op founder Victor Vasarely.
Sally Michel (1902-2003) Blue Landscape, 1962,
24 x 30 inches, oil on board
Sally Michel: Brilliant Legacy
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
January 31 - May 4, 2025
This is the first museum retrospective in over 20 years of Sally Michel's Modernist landscapes and figurations from the 1930s - 1990s. The exhibition of over 50 works including paintings, works on paper, and sketchbooks will provide a comprehensive overview of Sally Michels’ career. With loans from the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, museums, and private collections, this is a rare chance to see the full range of her work.
The exhibition was organized by the Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL, September 20, 2024 - January 12, 2025. The exhibition catalogue can be purchased here.
Read the Jersey Arts review here.
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954) Tugboat and New York Skyline, 1933, 14 x 20 inches, watercolor on paper
Shifting Shorelines: Art, Industry, and Ecology along the Hudson River
Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
October 5, 2024 - January 12, 2025
Shifting Shorelines brings together historic and contemporary art, visual culture, and environmental science to engage the history of human existence, commerce, and industry along the Hudson estuary.
The exhibition catalogue can be purchased here.
Ilya Bolotowsky, Geometry on Green, 1937, 30 x 40 inches, oil on canvas
Lee Krasner: Geometries of Expression
Ogunquit Museum of Art, Maine
August 1 - November 17, 2024
This exhibition sheds light on the early career of Lee Krasner (1908–1984) and places her work within the context of her peers, including European emigres like Piet Mondrian and Hans Hofmann and those who formed organizations such as the American Abstract Artists Group.
The gallery is lending Ilya Bolotowsky’s Geometry in Green, Balcomb Greene’s Memory Forms, and Charles Green Shaw’s Composition in Construction.
Read the Wall Street Journal’s review here.
Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930-2020), Untitled, 1964, 24 x 24 inches, acrylic on board
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
July 20, 2024 - January 5, 2025
An exhibition that reveals the many meanings, connotations, and associations of this powerful color in art. It features more than 70 artists, both established and emerging, ranging from the classical to the contemporary.
The gallery has loaned Richard Anuszkiewicz’s classic Op painting Untitled, 1964.
Cynthia Schira (b. 1934), Tabletop Mountain, 1986, painted fibers woven into triple cloth, 64 x 78 1/2 inches
Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery
May 31, 2024 - January 5, 2025
The thirty-three selected artworks from the museum’s permanent collection piece together an alternative history of American art. The artists in this exhibition took up fiber to complicate its historic marginalization and also revolutionize its import to contemporary art.
Cynthia Schira’s piece Reflections, 1982 is included in the exhibition and was the featured work in The Washington Post review.
Niles Spencer (1893-1952), Perkins Cove Fish Houses, 1926, 20 x 36 inches, oil on canvas
Cutting Edge: Connecticut Artists Explore Precisionism
Mattatuck Museum, CT
March 5 - April 30, 2023
In the 1920s, the United States entered the Machine Age and a group of artists developed a style that captured the zeitgeist: Precisionism. This exhibition focuses on the work of Connecticut artists who employed fine art and design to speak to these technological and social changes.
D. Wigmore Fine Art has loaned works by Ernest Fiene (1894-1965) and Niles Spencer (1893-1952).
Doris Lee (1904-1983), Oklahoma!, 1943, 18 x 28 inches, oil on canvas
Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
September 26, 2021 - January 15, 2023 (revised dates)
New York Times article on exhibition.
Travels to: Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA, February 6 - May 8, 2022; Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida, June 5 - September 18, 2022; and Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, October 30, 2022 - January 15, 2023
Raymond Johnson (1891-1982), Oil No. 7, 1941, 22 x 30 inches, oil on canvas
Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group, 1938-1945
The Albuquerque Museum, NM (June 26 – September 26, 2021)
An exhibition with catalogue showing the New Mexico abstract group including Raymond Jonson and Emil Bisttram
Travels to: Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK (October 15, 2021 – February 20, 2022); The Baker Museum/Artis-Naples, Naples, FL (March 26- July 24, 2022); Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (August 28 – November 20, 2022); and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (December 18, 2022 – April 16, 2023)
Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988), Indian Textures, 1933, 18 x 27 inches, oil on canvas
Luigi Lucioni: Modern Light
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
June 25 - October 16, 2022
Over 40 works by Luigi Lucioni, known for his hyper-realistic detail, from the late 1920s into the 1980s. The exhibition has received lots of media coverage, including a review in The Wall Street Journal.
Featuring Indian Textures, 1933, The Chinese Room at Laurelton Hall, 1928, and Barns along the Road, 1948 from our gallery inventory.
Jan Matulka (1890-1972), Jazz Composition #2, c. 1927, 21 x 14 1/2 inches, gouache on paper
Songs without Words: The Art of Music
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
November 20, 2021 - March 6, 2021
An exhibition of art and instruments, featuring Carl Holty (1900-1973) and Jan Matulka (1890-1972)
Tadasky (b. 1935), C-182 (Orange, Yellow, White with Black), 1965, 56 x 56 inches, acrylic on canvas
Moving Vision: Op and Kinetic Art from the Sixties and Seventies
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OK
February 22 - May 16, 2021
An exhibition featuring OKCMOA's rich holdings in this area, including works by Tadasky, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Mon Levinson, Reginald Neal, and Julian Stanczak
Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930-2020), Concave-Convex, 1966, 72 x 108 inches, acrylic on canvas
Vertigo. Op Art and Kineticism
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Nov 23, 2019 - April 19, 2020, extended to August 23, 2020
Organized with Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK),
Vienna, Austria, May 25 - October 26, 2019
Featuring Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930-2020)
George Biddle (1885-1973), Paternity, 1937, oil on canvas, 30 x 39 3/4 inches
The Broadmoor Art Academy and Its Legacy, 1919-1970
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
October 12, 2019 - January 12, 2020
Featuring work by George Biddle (1885-1973), Doris Lee (1904-1983), and Arnold Blanch (1896-1968)
Sally Michel (1902-2003), Sandpit with Birds, c. 1955, oil on board, 9 x 24 inches
Summer with the Averys
Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
May 11 - September 1, 2019
An exhibition celebrating the Avery family style with works by Milton Avery, Sally Michel, and their daughter March Avery
Charles Hinman (b.1932), Orange Sunspot, 1979, acrylic on shaped canvas, 45 1/2 x 36 x 2 1/2 inches
Charles Hinman: Structures, 1965–2014
Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
April 18 - July 31, 2019
Featuring shaped canvases from the 50 year carreer of artist Charles Hinman
Read The Washington Post review here
Virginia Berresford (1904-1995), Coral Shell, 1944, 20 x 15 inches, watercolor on board
Imagining Florida: History and Myth in the Sunshine State
The Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
November 13, 2018- March 24, 2019
Curated by Jennifer Hardin
Featuring Virginia Berresford (1904-1995), Doris Lee (1905-1983), and Sally Michel (1902-2003)
Hannes Beckman (1909-1977), Vertical Accents, 1962, oil on board, 18 x 18 inches
Interactions. Bauhaus and America
Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany
November 9, 2018 - March 10, 2019
Curated by Dr. Tanja Pirsig-Marshall
Featuring Hannes Beckmann (1909-1977), Sue Fuller (1914-2006), and Julian Stanczak (1928-2017)
Francis Celentano (1928-2016), Hexagonal Metamorphosis, 1968
Action<->Reaction, 100 Years of Kinetic Art
Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Sept 22, 2018 - Jan 20, 2019
Curated by Serge Lemoine
Featuring Francis Celentano (1928-2016)
Charles Green Shaw (1892-1974), The Smoker, 1935
The Jazz Age
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
March 24- July 8, 2018
Curated by Charles A. Riley II, Ph.D.
Featuring Charles Biederman (1906-2004), Carl Holty (1900-1973), Jan Matulka (1890-1972), and Charles Green Shaw (1892-1974)
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Winter Evening, 1945
A Life and Art of His Own: The Paintings of Rockwell Kent from North Country Collections
The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY
April 8, - July 22, 2018
Curated by Caroline Welsh
Tadasky (b.1935), C-185, 1965
Fool the Eye
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
November 18, 2017- March 4, 2018
Featuring Tadasky (Tadasuke Kuwayama) (b. 1935)
W Hunt Diederich (1884-1953), Rooster Charger, c. 1927-1929
Carl Walters and Woodstock Ceramic Arts
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of
New York at New Paltz, NY
February 4 through May 21, 2017
Curated by Tom Wolf
Featuring William Hunt Diederich (1884-1953), Waylande Gregory (1905-1971) and Henry Varnum Poor (1888-1970)
Charles Green Shaw (1892-1974), Contrasting Pairs, 1940
Dynamic Structures: American Abstract Artists
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
March 2- July 8, 2017
Curated by Kathryn Koca Polite
Featuring Balcomb Greene (1904-1990), Gertrude Greene (1904-1956), Charles Green Shaw (1892-1974), and Esphyr Slobodkina (1908-2002)
Dale Nichols (1904-1995), Spring Turning, 1946
Rural Modern: American Art Beyond the City
Brandywine River Museum of Art
October 29, 2016- January 22, 2017
Curated by Amanda Burdan
Featuring Dale Nichols (1904-1995)
Doris Lee (1904-1983), Table with Fruit, 1957
Feast for the Eyes
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
July 30- November 6, 2016
Featuring Doris Lee (1905-1983) and Charles Green Shaw (1892-1974)