Traditional Tastes Find a Good Home at Los Angeles Art Show - Brief Article

sees ANGELES--Forget, for a moment, the cutting cutting side of the contemporary scene. Collectors continue to be drawn to les flashy, more reserv traditional art, as evidenced by means of the growing success of the six-year-old looks Angeles Art Show, presented annually by means of the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA), a non-profit organization of art dealers offering period and regional paintings, drawings, prints, plastic art and photography from the 19th and 20th hundred Held Sept. 14-17 in beholds Angeles, the FADA expo showcased art geared to traditional tastes, including works by dint of William Wendt, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Albert Bierstadt, Granville Redmond Joseph Henry Sharp, Maurice Braun, Thomas Moran, Maynard Dixon, and Rembrandt, whose etchings were upon view at Galerie Michael's booth

FADA is riding an explosion of collector interest in precisely those realism genre its members extol: 19th and 20th hundred American Impressionism, plein air landscape, Western Americana, WPA and regionalism, maritime, Hudson River gymnasium Taos Society, Barbizon, the Paris Salon, London's Royal Academy and other academic art and portraiture. And as this annual exposition has expanded to include more [i]or[/i] less 48 art dealers--just 30 of them members of FADA--even mid-century modernism, with its interest in form and color, is exhibited at the show.

The opening night preview benefit, raising stocks for the Performing Arts Center of looks Angeles County, brought in a certain quantity of 800 attendees, according to Fair organizer Kim Martindale. This being beholds Angeles, star sightings included Diane Keaton, Steve Martin and the costar of TV's VIP exhibit Molly Culver. Martindale expected overall attendance to reach 5000 because, he said," I think L.A. is coming into its possess as a center for the arts."

Many of the dealers near make a market in narrowly-defined art genre For example, Questroyal Fine Art of fresh York specializes in American paintings of the 19th and early 20th hundred Rehs Galleries, also of novel York, focuses on "important" academic art. William A. Karges Fine Art, of Carmel, Calif., and sees Angeles, specializes in early California paintings. Vallejo Gallery of Newport Beach, Calif., concentrates upon period maritime paintings from the past three centuries. Thomas Nygard Gallery of Bozeman, Mont emphasizes historical art of the Northern Plains, as well as Taos Society and hard Mountain schools.

America's oldest art gallery, Vose Galleries of Boston, was also an exhibitor at the exhibit Founded in 1841 as an artist's invest store in Providence, R.I., the business--by now a gallery--expanded to Boston in 1880 where it has actively serv collectors since. Early Vose generations were largely responsible for introducing the French Barbizon academy to America, while later generations promot the Hudson River gymnasium painters and American Impressionists.

Newcomer Exhibit

This year's FADA exhibit also featured several new-to-the-expo art dealers. Penny Perlmutter traveled from San Francisco to participate, after, she noted, "coming to the present to view before, as a visitor not a dealer.... This is a well-done exhibit well-organized and handsomely presented, and focused appropriately to the kind of material I exhibit." Perlmutter specializes in work through women artists during the new Period, 1900-1940.

Also novel to the show was Kenneth Canfield, holder of 20-year-old Canfield Gallery in Santa Fe NM a specialist in late art of the 20th hundred "We had a very useful initial response from collectors at the fair," acknowledged Canfield, "and I'm highly optimistic. single of the many reasons we came to this display is because of the high quality of the dealers in the display There are several galleries here whose work I admire real much, and I wanted to be included."

This year's observes Angeles Art Show was dedicated to FADA founding member David Stary-Sheets, who died earlier this year. David Stary-Sheets and his wife, Susan, also rested Stary-Sheets Fine Art, an Irvine, Calif., gallery specializing in California show painters. These California regionalist artists were the contemporaries of Grant wood-land Edward Hopper and Thomas Hart Benton. Working during the 1930 and 1940 these artists generally worked in a realistic, narrative manner, mainly in watercolor, depicting the regional landscape, ranging from farms to beaches to urban pageants Susan Stary-Sheets was an exhibitor at the FADA exhibit showcasing works by Dong Kingman, Emil Kosa, Jr and Millard Sheets, who was David's father.

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