NEW YORK — Continuing a tradition of offering specialized auctions, Swann Galleries will offer its second edition of The Artists of the WPA on Thursday, January 27 which aims to call attention to the generation of artists that contributed to the Federal Arts Project and the varying “alphabet agencies” and helped form a new American identity in the 20th century. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
CRANSTON, R.I. – Paintings by Julie Hart Beers, Anthony Thieme and Edgar S. Paxson were among the top lots in an Estate Fine Art & Antiques auction held January 6 by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers. Works by all three sold for five-figure sums.
PHOENIX – Arizona audiences can explore paper garments from one of fashion’s most experimental and whimsical eras in Generation Paper: Fast Fashion of the 1960s at Phoenix Art Museum. Featuring work from 1966 through 1968 by designers and manufacturers such as Mars of Asheville, Scott Paper Company, The Disposables, Sterling Paper Fashions, Hallmark Inc., and others, the exhibition showcases more than 80 garments and accessories, including dresses, bikinis, skirts, hats, jumpsuits, rompers, beach cover-ups and accessories made from paper, plastic, laminate and other nonwoven textiles. Generation Paper is on through July 17 in the Museum’s Ellman and Harnett galleries and highlights a special component of the Museum’s fashion-design collection.
BOSTON – Boasting an unprecedented selection of nearly 200 lots of winner’s medals, torches and outstanding ephemera, RR Auction‘s January 20 Olympic auction is set to be a record-breaker. View the fully illustrated catalog on LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK — Paintings don’t always have to tell a story; they can just exist and don’t need to be interpreted. Through the artist’s command of color and brushstrokes, they can impart a kind of spiritual or transportive experience. Barnett Newman (American, 1905-1970) was a master of Color Field paintings, creating striking color-saturated works with color bands he dubbed “zips,” which spoke volumes in their simplicity and rich hues.