Wolf Fine Art Broker: Paintings, Pottery, Sculpture

11/20/2020

Recent acquisition by Taos Modernist Beatrice Mandelman (1912-1998). Banana, Pear, Apple. Oil on Canvas. 18 x24 inches. Deaccession from the Mandelman-Ribak Collection, University of New Mexico. In Taos, Mandelman flourished as a bold, emotive colorist with her own personal style. Of her path, the artist said, "I'm an original. I broke all the rules. I'm using a very primitive language—squares, circles, triangles, primitive colors. And I made a very sophisticated art out of it."

08/09/2019

Ethel Magafan and her twin sister Jenne studied at the Broadmoor Art Academy (now the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center) in the mid 1930’s under the tutelage of Frank Mechau, Boardman Robinson, and Peppino Mangravite. The Colorado Springs Fine Art Center at Colorado College will be celebrating a 100 year Legacy of the Broadmoor Art Academy opening October 12th.

05/12/2019

Two recent acquisitions. Ray Swanson (1937-2004). Cowboy Artists of America. He is well known for depicting Southwest Native American subjects. Edward Chavez (1917-1995). Studied at the Broadmoor Art Academy in the 1930’s in Colorado Springs and won a Fulbright Grant to travel and paint in Italy in 1948. Co-founder of the Woodstock School of Art.

05/08/2019

smART Collecting - 20th Century Sculptor - Alberto Giacometti

The roots of modern sculpture lie in the early days of the 20th century, when European artists fell under the influence of primitive African art. At the same time artists were beginning to realize the expressive power of abstraction. Alberto Giacometti was a pioneer of the new sculptural forms. Alb...

05/01/2019

smART Collecting - Composition

The Punished Son, 1778 (Musee Du Louvre, Paris, France) Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) Composition refers to how the artist has arranged the elements of the work of art and it is a dominant contributor to the subject matter of the piece. To achieve a successful composition, the image has to work a...

04/25/2019

smART Collecting - 20th Century Sculptor - Constantin Brancusi

The roots of modern sculpture lie in the early days of the 20th century, when European artists fell under the influence of primitive African art. At the same time artists were beginning to realize the expressive power of abstraction. Constantin Brancusi was a pioneer of the new sculptural forms. Co...

03/07/2019

Milton Clark Avery (1885-1965), Birthday Mar 7

02/14/2019

smART Collecting - Part II: What To Look For In A Work Of Art

Part I – Eye appeal, Subject matter, Period, Medium, and Signature Part II – Reputation, Condition, Authenticity, Provenance, Publication and Exhibition History, and Originality Part III – Guarantee, Quality, Rarity, and Value Reputation. An artist’s reputation is of crucial importance in th...

02/13/2019

Grant Wood (1891-1942), Birthday Feb 13

(1891-1942) Iowa, Regional Scene Painter, Genre-Portrait, Landscape One of the major American Regionalist painters along with Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry, Grant Wood was born in Anamosa, Iowa, and spent his childhood in Cedar Rapids.  Unlike Curry and Benton, he never moved East but r...

02/09/2019

Robert Morris (b 1931), Birthday Feb 9

(1931 – ) New York, Earthworks, Installation, Minimalism Robert Morris, a Minimalist artist, was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1931, studying at that city’s Art Institute from 1948 to 1950, and then at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco in 1951. While living on the West Coast, ...

02/05/2019

Alison Saar (b 1956), Birthday Feb 5

(1956 – ) New York, Mod Figure, Collage, Assemblage Alison Saar, like her mother Betye Saar, is a sculptor and assemblage artist. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1956 of a White father–an artist, conservator–and Black, Irish, Native American mother, Alison Saar’s work tends to reflect the...

01/24/2019

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), Birthday Jan 24

Wall Painting with Stripes, 1944 (The Art Institute of Chicago) (1915-1991) New York/Connecticut, Abstract Expression, Collage American painter, Robert Motherwell, was one of the founders and principal exponents of Abstract Expressionism, who was among the first American artists to cultivate acciden...