The American Art Fair, a fixture of New York’s autumn art show season for 13 years, is moving to mid-May. This May it will be virtual, but with an in-person twist. On Saturday, May 15, the Fair celebrates American Art Week with exhibitor open houses and special exhibitions. Hirschl & Adler’s offering is a special gallery show, The American Dream: Seven Decades of Reality and Imagination in American Art.
The American Dream derives from the title of an enigmatic painting from 1935 by the Magic Realist O. Louis Guglielmi, one of the centerpieces of the exhibition. It is accompanied by several new acquisitions, including some great works of art from multi-generational private collections. Among the most noteworthy is a magnificent sporting painting by Frank Benson, Redheads Lighting, which has been in one family’s collection since the patriarch acquired it from Benson—his friend and hunting companion—in the 1920s. Another recent acquisition is a magical 1949 Charles Burchfield watercolor called Cobwebs in Autumn, which was acquired by the father of its current owner in the early 1950s, perhaps as a memento of his honors thesis on Burchfield at Harvard University in 1942—the first at the university treating a living artist.
While we will miss seeing our many friends at The American Art Fair this year, we are very much looking forward to presenting our new acquisitions on the Fair’s virtual platform and “live” at our gallery from this Saturday through mid-June.

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