Beyond Native Shores

Beyond Native Shores: A Widening View of American Art, 1850 to 1975

AN EXHIBITION AND SALE, ILLUSTRATING 150 YEARS OF AMERICAN PAINTING AT HOME AND ABROAD TO BE SHOWN AT ADELSON GALLERIES, INC. IN APRIL, 2003.

Several featured works are from descendants of the original owners or have been un-located for decades.

New York, NY (Winter 2003)-More than 60 important paintings, pastels and watercolors, by American artists ranging from Fitz Hugh Lane to Andrew Wyeth, many of which have not been seen in decades, will be exhibited at Adelson Galleries, Inc. in New York City from April 1-May 10, 2003. Beyond Native Shores: A Widening View of American Art, 1850 to 1975: An Exhibition and Sale will examine the theme of native painters who traveled within the United States and Europe in search of subject matter that they hoped would appeal to both the critical and popular audience at home. Celebrating a broad panorama, this exhibition will illuminate the growing appreciation and developing market enthusiasm by the public for a broader range of American paintings. Moving from marine and topographical subjects, popular in the first half of the 20th century, through the landscape and subject paintings that came to the fore around World War II, collecting taste has shifted in the past two decades toward American impressionism and modernism.

"We feel this collection illustrates in a tangible fashion the history of the American artist as a traveler, always looking for new and relevant subjects. Several paintings in the collection are from the families of the original owners and have never been exhibited before," said Warren Adelson, president of Adelson Galleries, Inc.

Included in Beyond Native Shores: A Widening View of American Art, 1850 to 1975: An Exhibition and Sale will be works by George Wesley Bellows, Frank W. Benson, Albert Bierstadt, Robert Frederick Blum, Charles Burchfield, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Walter Gay, William Glackens, Marsden Hartley, William Stanley Haseltine, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, George Inness, Fitz Hugh Lane, Ernest Lawson, Richard E. Miller, Malcolm Morley, Jerome Myers, Georgia O'Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Everett Shinn, Edward Emerson Simmons, John Sloan, Edmund Tarbell, J. Alden Weir, Guy Wiggins, Andrew Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth and others.

Among the many significant works on display, several are especially notable either for their important provenance, exceptional quality and importance within the body of the artist's work or their recent discovery as unknown or missing works. Included in this category are paintings by George Wesley Bellows, Frank Weston Benson, Mary Cassatt, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, Edward Hopper and others.

A fully illustrated, color catalogue with an essay by Jay Cantor, director of the Mary Cassatt Catalogue Raisonné Committee, will accompany this exhibition and sale and will be available for $25.00 exclusively through Adelson Galleries, Inc.

Adelson Galleries, Inc., is open to the public Monday-Friday 9:30-5:30 and will be open on Saturdays during this exhibition from 10:00-5:00. The galleries are located in the Mark Hotel, 25 East 77th Street, Third Floor, New York, NY. Tel: 212.439.6800. Fax: 212.439.6870. Website: www.adelsongalleries.com. E-mail: info@adelsongalleries.com