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ACA Galleries (American Contemporary Artists) was founded in 1932 by Herman Baron. Stuart Davis, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Adolf Dehn were among the original founding members. ACA first opened on Madison Avenue on August 16, 1932 in the depths of the Great Depression. At this time there were only thirty galleries in New York City and Edith Halpert's Downtown Gallery was the only other gallery dedicated to exhibiting American Art. Even museums cast a blind eye to American painters and sculptors. The art world at this time consisted of Old Master dealers and galleries showing the great artistic currents of Europe. The gallery's second exhibition, "Selections from the John Reed Club," set the tone and clearly defined the gallery's direction for the next thirty-eight years. Social Realism or art with a message found a home at ACA. The exhibitions featured at ACA helped to ease the seething discontent among American and emigrant artists at having no venue to deliver their message. Work by women, African Americans, Jews, Chinese, Latin and Russian artists were shown on a regular basis. ACA was the people's gallery. Artists as diverse as Louise Nevelson, Charles White, Lee Krasner, Isamu Noguchi, Raphael and Moses Soyer, Alice Neel, Barnet Newman, David Smith, Stuart Davis, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and hundreds of other artists often had their first public exhibition at ACA. To accomodate its expansion, the gallery was moved in 1933 to 8th Street, a block from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Studio Club. Juliana Force, Ms. Whitney's director, was a great supporter of the gallery. In the mid 1930's when life for the artists became intolerable ACA organized the earliest meetings of the American Artist's Congress. Hundreds of artists gathered at ACA to form a political platform and demand the right to work. These meetings were chaired by Stuart Davis and Rockwell Kent and were eventually moved to Carnegie Hall. This was the antecedent of what was to become the FAP (Federal Arts Project) and the WPA (Works Progress Administration). These organizations gave artists and their families a minimum wage for plying their trade as muralists, sculptors and painters. As a result the cultural life of many cities across America was greatly enriched. In the late 1950's Herman Baron's nephew, Sidney Bergen, joined the gallery. Sidney applied modern accounting and marketing strategies to the growing company. Under his directorship, a new vitality galvanized the company. A separate corporation was founded to examine and handle earlier American Art. Professional art historians and curators were hired, photographic archives were set up and the gallery made the transition to a modern business. Diverse exhibitions such as "Four American Primitives," featuring the work of Edward Hicks, John Kane, Horace Pippin and Grandma Moses, as well as "The New York Society of Women Artists," a radical group founded in 1925, were organized. Shows devoted to great collections such as the Avnet collection were compiled. Throughout its history, the gallery has been socially and philanthropically active by organizing benefits and raising money for humanitarian, political and environmental causes.
Related Links: http://www.artnet.com/aca.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 511 West 25th Street, Suite 301 - NY, NY 10001 - 212.255.6651 - FAX 212.255.6653 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acquavella is a family-owned gallery founded by Nicholas Acquavella in 1925. The gallery first specialized in works of the Italian Renaissance, but in 1960, when William Acquavella joined his father, the focus of the gallery expanded to major works of the 19th and 20th centuries, including masters of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism and Surrealism. Recently, William Acquavella has been joined by daughter Eleanor and his two sons Alexander and Nicholas, and the entire scope of the 20th and 21st centuries are now represented, including Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. For over eighty years, Acquavella has sold major paintings and sculpture to private collectors and museums worldwide. The gallery has presented museum-quality exhibitions of Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Alfred Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Amedeo Modigliani, Pierre Bonnard, Yves Tanguy, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Robert Rauschenberg, Lyonel Feininger, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Lucian Freud and James Rosenquist. Acquavella is the exclusive international agent for the renowned British painter Lucian Freud and the celebrated American painter James Rosenquist. Esperanza Sobrino, Tsutomu Takashima, Michael Findlay, Eleanor Acquavella, Nicholas Acquavella and Alexander Acquavella are directors of Acquavella. Their combined experience represents a wide range of expertise in acquisition, appraisal and education. Business can be conducted in French, Italian, Japanese and Spanish as well as English. Acquavella is located at 18 East 79th Street in New York City, occupying a five-story French neo-classical townhouse. Acquavella Galleries is part of the Art Dealer Association of America (www.artdealers.org). The gallery also participates in the following prestigious international art fairs, bringing works by modern and contemporary masters to the fairs each year.
TEFAF: Maastricht Art Fair (March) Maastricht, the oldest town in The Netherlands, attracts around 195 of the most illustrious international dealers to participate in the world's greatest art and antiques fair, TEFAF Maastricht. For over 30 years, the myriad of museum quality items which are for sale at have drawn collectors from around the globe.
Art Basel: The International Art Fair
(June) Every year, Acquavella exhibits at Art Basel, the world's premier modern and contemporary art fair. The New York Times has called Art Basel the “Olympics of the Art World." According to the Paris daily Le Monde, Art Basel is “la meilleure foire du monde," and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung describes the international art show as “Die beste Kunst ist gerade gut genug." Top galleries from Europe, America, Asia and Australia come together in Basel to present 20th and 21st century art works by over 2000 artists. The full spectrum of modern and contemporary art is represented, from the great masters of modern art to the latest generation of artists.
Art Basel Miami (December) The international art show in Miami Beach (Florida) is the American sister event of Art Basel in Switzerland, the most important annual art show worldwide for the past 37 years. In Miami Beach’s Convention Center, 200 world leading art galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia exhibit 20th and 21st century by over 1500 artists -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Agora Gallery
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ARTisSpectrum Magazine Art-Mine.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art | 20 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 | T (212) 445 0051 | F (212) 445 0102 | http://www.ameringer-yohe.com/mainpage.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For almost 50 years, the André Emmerich Gallery was one of New York's most influential contemporary galleries. It was the focal point for Color-Field painting and a leading venue for color abstraction and monumental sculpture. Born in Germany in 1924 and raised in Holland, André Emmerich emigrated to the United States in 1940. After graduating from Oberlin College and working as a writer, he opened his gallery in 1954. During its early years, the firm specialized in classical antiquities and Pre-Columbian art, but by the 1960s Emmerich began concentrating on the artists who defined Color-Field painting: Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and Jules Olitski. To this roster he added such artists as Pierre Alechinsky, William Bailey, Piero Dorazio, Sam Francis, Al Held, David Hockney, Dorothea Rockburne, Anne Truitt, and Esteban Vicente. A strong advocate of abstract sculpture, Emmerich featured it in his gallery and at Top Gallant Farm, his 140-acre estate in upstate New York where he installed monumentally scaled works by Anthony Caro, Alexander Liberman, Beverly Pepper, Michael Steiner, and Bernar Venet. The gallery closed in 1998, and André Emmerich subsequently donated his personal and professional records to the Archives of American Art. His generous gift, the largest collection of papers ever received by the organization, was the catalyst for this exhibition. http://www.aaa.si.edu/exhibits/pastexhibits/emmerich/emmerich.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrei Kushnir Michele Taylor LLC American Painting American Painting "River Songs," paintings by Andrei Kushnir, thru Apr 15 "In the Tropics," new works in oil by Michele Martin Taylor & acrylic by Carol Spils. These paintings capture the exhilaration of being in a vivid environment in vastly different ways but say much the same thing: Carpe Diem. Apr 21-May 27 http://www.galleryguide.com/details.asp?CustomerID=114164 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Massimo Audiello is the owner of the homonymous gallery in Chelsea.
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