American artist Will Barnet is known for his intimate, foreshortened views of women with cats, but his oeuvre, spanning nearly a century, reveals a diverse and multifaceted artist who transcended…
Specialists in the Field is an informal summer segment of the blog in which we speak to specialists at Swann about their extracurricular activities. Unsurprisingly, their interests are generally aligned…
The community of East Hampton has long been known as an avant-garde artist enclave. Our May 11 auction of Contemporary Art features a century’s worth of output by artists who…
In 1926, Thomas Hart Benton was a teacher at the Art Students League of New York. Disappointed by the lack of a painting manual, he set about writing his own.…
Last year Swann Galleries saw 95 records and first appearances across 31 sales with some of our departments even breaking their own records. Treasures ranging from previously unknown works to…
While the practice of artists naming or voicing the movements in which they were participants began in the late 19th and early 20th century, there was often hesitation, or even…
Wednesday’s Old Master Through Modern Prints sale, paired with yesterday’s Atelier 17, Abstract Expressionism & The New York School sale, brought nearly $3,000,000, and set print records for several major…
Jackson Pollock, Untitled, screenprint on Strathmore paper, 1951 (printed 1964). The 1940s marked the moment of Stanley W. Hayter’s greatest influence–not only among printmakers–in the emergence of Abstract Expressionism…
Jackson Pollock, Untitled, drypoint and engraving, circa 1944-45. The tradition of the artist-printmaker was not a fully developed one in the late 19th- and early 20th-century United States. Few American artists…