All Posts By Harold Porcher
Auction Highlights: Modern & Post-War Art — May 22, 2025
Our May Modern & Post-War Art auction brings together the many subcategories of Modernist art, offering a treme…
Mexican Muralists & Their Impact on the WPA
The Whitney Museum of American Art’s recent exhibition, Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-…
Auction Highlights: The Artists of the WPA — January 30, 2025
Works in photography, cartography, printmaking, posters, and painting are all represented in Swann’s Artists o…
Auction Highlights: Modern & Post-War Art — November 12, 2024
This October Modern & Post-War art auction will feature works by Janice Biala, Joe Brainard, William Grosvenor …
Surrealist Centennial: 100 Years of the Surrealist Manifesto
André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto was first published in 1924. Breton, a writer and member of an earlier art movem…
Essential Modern & Post-War Art Terms & Movements — Part II
Harold Porcher’s Illustrated Glossary of Modern & Post-War Movements II The post-war era of art, as an auc…
Auction Highlights: Modern & Post-War Art — May 2, 2024
Highlights from the upcoming spring Modern & Post-War Art Sale.
Auction Highlights: The Artists of the WPA — Timed Sale Closing January 25, 2024
Highlights from the December 14, 2023 auction of Illustration Art.
Essential Modern & Post-War Art Terms & Movements — Part I
Harold Porcher’s Illustrated Glossary of Modern & Post-War Movements In early 2020 I joined Swann and crea…
Auction Highlights: Modern & Post-War Art — November 30, 2023
The fall Modern & Post-War Art auction will include work from the early twentieth century through post-World War…
Artist Profile: Edith Schloss
Our May 25, 2023 Modern & Post-War Art auction features a wide array: from the Post-Impressionist era, a work on…