Happy birthday 🎂 Winslow Homer (1836-1910). The IBM collection auction at Sotheby’s in May 1995 was a watershed market moment in American art. The works had been amassed by company founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr. for display at the IBM pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. The auction in 1995 set 8 auction world records for artists including Frank Benson, George Bellows, John Sloan, Grant Wood, Maurice Prendergast, and Grant Wood. My father and I tossed and turned a bit the night before the auction, which was met with a packed house of collectors, dealers, museum directors and curators, and private collectors. When bidding, dad used a concrete column to lean against and be able to scan the room. He said the column’s sturdy support was welcome as the bidding war commenced with legendary auctioneer John Marion on the rostrum. A few minutes later this dramatic scene of life and death on the edge of a killer shoal off Cape Hatteras, NC, with the warning lightship in the distance as witness to the drama, was hammered down to our firm for a delighted client. Definitely a highlight reel moment in my art dealer memory bank! #winslowhomer #americanwatercolor #ibmcollection #americanart #americanarthistory #diamondshoals 
Meanwhile, in the CNY snow belt, winter rages inside and out. Inside, it is American impressionist artist Walter Koeniger (1881-1943) creating beautiful freshly fallen snow, circa 1925. Swipe for pic. Inquiries welcome! #walterkoeniger #americanart #winterart #americanimpressionism 
Afternoon shadows and light at home from the sun setting over the Catskills high peaks to West. Stained glass casting shadows and color next to a 1927 William Schwartz oil of dramatic mountain peaks titled “Song without Words”. Seems poetically pleasant on this fine winter day. #lateafternoonsun #hudsonny #shadowsandlight 
Black History Month meets Throwback Thursday - and our sold archives. Al Loving, Jr. was a pioneering and award winning artist who is best known for his hard edge abstraction and painted and dyed fabric constructions. He shot to fame after a solo show at the Whitney Museum in 1969. At the time, he lived in NYC’s notorious Hotel Chelsea. Highly educated, with a BFA from University of Illinois Urbana, and MFA from University of Michigan, Loving received numerous National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim fellowships. His work is held in more than 35 museums. Our significant triptych was owned by an important collector, and provides fond memories! #blackhistorymonth #alloving #hudsonny #hardedgepainting #hardedgesbstraction #1974 #tbt2021 #triptych 
President’s Day (and for sale) with George. William Birch (1755-1834) was an English miniature painter and enamel artist who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1794. He chose to create his George Washington miniature enamel on copper paintings after Gilbert Stuart’s portrait. The process was a game of roulette: painstakingly paint the miniature, THEN fire it in the crude and uneven heating kilns of that era...with fingers crossed it wouldn’t crack and be destroyed. This 1822 enamel survived the kiln, and 199 more years bringing us to this Presidents Day. A rare and important work. Inquiries welcome. #presidentsday2021 #hudsonny #georgewashington #williambirchminiature #enameloncopper #1822 
Fond farewell. A deliciously dynamic Drewes delight descended from our second floor gallery yesterday, and exited the building on a journey to a new home. Werner Drewes (1899-1985) was a founding member of AAA (American Abstract Artists) in the 1930’s, and one heck of an artist, teacher, and printmaker. #wernerdrewes #americanabstractsrtists #hudsonny #americanart #pastelart 
For Black History Month 2021 we reminisce about a major Norman Lewis we rediscovered overseas, and sold to the Baltimore Museum. The work is shown in a 1956 newspaper clipping with Lewis, other artists, and Mrs. Willard at Willard Gallery in NY. Sweet memories of a great painting and artist. #blackhistorymonth #normanlewis #willardgallery #hudsonny #tbt2021 #baltimoremuseumofart #abstractexpressionismart #americanart #africanamericanart #africanamericanartist 
Coffee & Chalk are important breakfast nook accoutrements. And art, of course. Our Hudson house and salon allow me to work 24/7 if need be. And in the field I’ve been in since being handed my college diploma, that’s most certainly not a chore. It’s a pleasure. Even more so in these fractured, isolated and unsettled times. Art is everywhere in my life, helping me try to make sense of it all. Works in the kitchen by @nikolinakovalenko and Jacob El Hanani. #hudsonny #artathome #breakfastnook #chalkboardart 
Not all artist sketchbooks are created equal. Hans Burkhardt (1904-1994) created beautiful fully realized “sketches” in his, like this circa 1979-80 ink and watercolor figural piece. We have quite a stash of these beautiful works, matted and ready to frame to your specifications. Walk a handful down a hallway. Or descending a staircase. Or nestle a few in those empty niches. Possibilities are endless for these inspired and affordable gems. #hansburkhardt #sketchbookart #artistsketchbook #hudsonny #figuralexpressionism 
I’m no Tesla, but a Vitamin D top up en route to #hudsonny was in order... #vitamindtherapy #wintersunshine #gooddaytotravel 
Working from home when it was the exception, not the norm. Dad loved rolling out of bed in the home he built with @grand.street - and descending the stairs into a lovely live/work space. Four gallery rooms, office/library, deck/garden, and lawn for fly-fishing casting practice. If these walls could talk, some paintings 🖼 which graced them over the years are quite the quiet catalogue of inherent quality and sublime beauty. That mission hasn’t changed, here in Manlius or at our “flagship shop” in Hudson. #workathomelife #manliusny #homegallery #familybusinesslife #established1973 
Where was I in the Summer of 2019? Flashback Friday. Microcosmic to Macrocosmic, each swipe the clue gets easier. The last slide - if needed - will provide the reveal. Who got the answer without a swipe? I’ll be impressed! #flashbackfridays #thereveal #arttravel #whereami 
I hope she isn’t too mad that I’m inside sipping coffee by a toasty fire... #bronzesculpture #outdoorsculpture #yullalipchitz #hudsonny #afterthestorm 
Saturday Night (window) Fever. A frigid stroll home tonight from a friend’s brought me past our sidewalk windows. Sometimes, it’s just nice to be on the outside looking in... #hudsonny #hudsonnyart #charlesbiederman #geralddigiusto #saturdaynightstroll 
Zen-like. Circa 1975 by Naohiko Inukai (Japanese, born 1937). Inukai graduated Cooper-Union in 1964 and went on to an impressive career kn NYC including solo shows of abstracts at Staempfli Gallery in 1966 (squares) & 1968 (grids). In the 70’s his work turned to nature and color harmony, as evidenced by this beautiful, subtle piece. #naohikoinukai #landscapepainting #zenlike #workonpaper #hudsonny