Exhibition at the Heard Museum explores one of the great American artists of the 20th century
Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight presents fresh scholarship and appreciation for this Modernist masters inspiration from American Indian culture and the Oklahoma Plains.
PHOENIX, AZ
.-The Heard Museum is presenting a new original exhibition, Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight. Leon Polk Smith, one of the great American artists of the 20th century, has been studied and celebrated through major exhibitions, publications and scholarship over many years and yet, a significant source of inspiration and influence on his artistic production remains largely unexplored. Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight takes visitors on the journey of how a young Smith, influenced by American Indian culture in his native Oklahoma, became one of Americas most accomplished painters and a founding icon of midcentury modern art and design.
Branch Arts presents Kate Daudy s Miracles, an online journey of reflections from lockdown
Branch Arts and Daudy will donate 10% of proceeds from the sale of work from I KNEW YOU WOULD COME BACK TO ME to UK for UNHCR to help families displaced by crises such as Syria, Yemen and South Sudan.
CHARLBURY
.- Kate Daudy has been busy through lockdown reflecting on the everyday sublime. I KNEW YOU WOULD COME BACK TO ME presents phenomenon that have touched Daudy in a collection of multi-media artworks shown as a slowly observed online exhibition and offered for sale through Branch Arts.
Michelle Poonawalla exhibits a new series of works on paper titled Love at 079 Stories in Ahmedabad
Work on paper from Michelle Poonawallas Love series.
AHMEDABAD
.- Michelle Poonwalla is showing a new series of drawings at 079 Stories gallery in Ahmedabad as part of KAGAZ, a group exhibition of works on paper which runs until the 26 February. Poonawlla is showcasing five portraits taken in her home city of Pune. The drawings celebrate friendship and companionship and show the importance of having someone there for you in these most challenging of times that many of us around the world are currently facing.
Honor Fraser Gallery opens Men to Match My Mountains , an exhibition of new works by Rosson Crow
Rosson Crow, Burned Wagon Point, 2021. Acrylic, photo-transfer, and oil on canvas, 72 x 84 inches.
ASPEN, CO
.- Over a century since the declared closure of the frontier, the idea of the West as a symbol of freedom has persistently loomed large in the American psyche. In this surreal and hallucinogenic series of paintings, Rosson Crow harnesses her signature maximalist approach to confront the selective nostalgia of American history. Challenging the fetishization of the mythic American cowboy, these large-scale and immersive canvases present the Western landscape through a fun house mirror of projected mythologies, dreams, and anxieties.
A Ford family estate is auctioning off 650 treasures worth more than $5 mn
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Last Updated: Feb 15, 2021, 09:21 AM IST
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Christie’s will auction items from the estate of the late Kathleen DuRoss Ford, the widow of auto titan Henry Ford II.
The third wife of the industrialist split her time between a mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, the Belgravia apartment, and Turville Grange in Buckinghamshire after his death in 1987. (Image: Mrs. Henry Ford II’s Palm Beach residence/christies.com)
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On March 30, Christie’s will auction about 250 lots from the estate of the late Kathleen DuRoss Ford, the widow of auto titan Henry Ford II. A few weeks later, the auction house will host a separate sale from her estate in London, where she had an apartment on Eaton Square.