February 1, 2021Harold PorcherAmerican Art Harold Porcher Explores Mexican Muralists & Their Impact on the WPA Read more about Harold Porcher Explores Mexican Muralists & Their Impact on the WPA The Whitney Museum of American Art’s recent exhibition, Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945, was a comprehensive evaluation of post-revolution art in Mexico and the powerful influence it…
Read more about Harold Porcher’s Debrief on the First Modern & Post-War Art Auction At Swann January 6, 2021 Modern & Post-War Art Harold Porcher’s Debrief on the First Modern & Post-War Art Auction At Swann On December 3, 2020, we held our first Modern and Post-War Art auction. The sale was met with enthusiasm by collectors generating success for a number of works on offer.…
Read more about Harold Porcher’s Five Key Artists in the December 3 Modern & Post-War Art Sale November 25, 2020 Modern & Post-War Art Harold Porcher’s Five Key Artists in the December 3 Modern & Post-War Art Sale Our Director of Modern & Post-War Art, Harold Porcher, shares his top picks from the December 3 sale—the house’s first auction in the category. Irene Rice Pereira Irene Rice Pereira…
Read more about Happening November 30: Artists That Went Against The Grain November 20, 2020 Modern & Post-War Art Happening November 30: Artists That Went Against The Grain Starting with H.C. Westermann in Chicago and winding its way through other artists that made a practice of going against the grain, Swann Director of Modern & Post-War Art Harold Porcher will be in conversation with scholar Antonia Pocock, discussing Westermann, Hedda Sterne, Robert Therrien, Allan Kaprow, and Claes Oldenburg.
Read more about An Introduction to the Transcendental Painting Group June 12, 2020 Modern & Post-War Art An Introduction to the Transcendental Painting Group Modernism’s Arrival in the United States Modernism arrived in the United States in two waves. The first of these occurred in the dawn of the twentieth century, influenced by the…
Read more about Cultural Cross-Currents: The Indian Space Painters April 8, 2020 Modern & Post-War Art Cultural Cross-Currents: The Indian Space Painters The Indian Space Painters may be the modern artists most closely associated with Native American art. In Haida and Tlingit art, these American modernists found anthropomorphic interlocking subject matter that lent itself to the Surrealist abstraction they were already emulating in their own paintings.