Please Join Us for a Curator-Led Tour of The Art Collection of the Law Firm Fried Frank
Friday, January 23, 11:00 am
Please join us on Friday, January 23, 11:00 am for a tour of the extensive art collection of the law firm Fried Frank. The tour will be led by curator Macyn Bolt.
Fried Frank began building its art collection in 1979 by acquiring contemporary paintings, works on paper, photographs and sculpture that represent a cross section of established artists and younger emerging talent. The goal was to recognize major movements that developed since the 1950s, when the United States began to occupy a more preeminent role in the international art world. Following the critical triumph of abstract expressionism, subsequent generations of artists began questioning the prevailing assumptions that it embodied. Pop, minimalist, conceptual, and post-modern art followed, with their proponents advancing new approaches, mediums and thought. The firm’s collection starts with the first major challenge represented in the work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and builds from there with artists such as Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Julian Schnabel. Other new names have also been added over the years, reflecting the intrinsic nature of the ever-changing art world.
Fried Frank is located in Washington, DC. Attendance is limited to 20 WPC members and their guests. Please RSVP by January 16.
Please Join Us for a Curator-Led Tour of American Landscapes in Watercolor from the Corcoran Collection
National Gallery of Art
Tuesday, January 27, 11:00 am
Please join us on Tuesday, January 21, 11:00am for a tour of the NGA exhibition American Landscapes in Watercolor from the Corcoran Collection with Amy Johnson, Associate Curator of Collections, Prints and Drawings.
Drawn mostly from the Corcoran Collection, a selection of 30 landscapes and seascapes dating from 1800 to 1991 reflect the colorful journey of watercolors across America. The landscapes are arranged in three themes: sights associated with Washington, DC; the rivers, waterfalls, and seascapes of New England; and western views of Yosemite, Yellowstone, and the California coast.
The earliest watercolor painters arrived here with European settlers in the late 16th century. Over the next 200 years, the medium was used primarily by commercial and amateur artists. Printmakers and explorers found watercolors to be an inexpensive and portable material apt for mapping and documenting the landscape. In the 19th century, painters turned to watercolors to depict the country in larger and more carefully finished works.
After the American Watercolor Society was founded in 1867, watercolors came to be seen as an independent fine art. Winslow Homer, William Trost Richards, and other artists exploited the medium’s potential to produce finished works worthy of collecting and putting on public display. More information about the exhibition can be found here.
Attendance is limited to 20 WPC members and their guests. Please RSVP by January 20.
Member News
Julia Bloom has work in a group show at the Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Context: Art, Books & Freedom. Until May 29. More information here.
Material Acts of Resistance: Michèle Colburn is on view at George Mason University Founder’s Gallery at Mason Square until February 5.
Catherine Day and Zofie King have work at McLean Project for the Arts’ exhibition Photo Genesis 2. Until February 24. Artist talk February 7, 11:00 am. Tea and Talk February 18, 11:00 am. More information here.
Before the Americas, an exhibition curated by Cheryl Edwards, will travel to the University of Maryland Global Campus art gallery. February 15 – May 11. Opening reception February 15, 3:00 pm.
Cianne Fragione’s painting Mare Ionian (Afternoon Light) has been acquired by the Dallas Museum of Art.
Helen Frederick and Randi Reiss-McCormack have work in the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (Farmville, VA) exhibition CHASM: Intuition, Risk, and Certainty. Until February 1.
Susan Goldman has a solo exhibition of her work at Galerie Myrtis (Baltimore). Until January 10.
Mary Welch Higgins jurored and curated the Studio Gallery (DC) exhibition In the Spirit of Community: Ceramics in Greenbelt, MD. Until January 24.
linn meyers will have work on view at the Georgetown University gallery exhibition Speculative Morphologies. January 23 – May 17.
Soledad Salamé’s exhibition Camouflage is now at the Baffler Museum in Houston, TX. Until March 7.
Joyce Wellman has a work on view in the Phillips Collection exhibition Out of Many: Re-Framing an American Art Collection. Until February 15.
Gallery Member News
Adah Rose Gallery Marsha Goldberg and Nathan Mullins: A Small Moment of Amazement. January 8 – February 20. Opening January 8, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm. More information here.
Addison/Ripley Isabel Manalo: Lament, until January 17. Coffee and conversation January 17, 11:00 am.
Gallery Neptune & Brown Treasures From the Vault: A Winter Auction. Auction bidding period January 7 – 17.
Hemphill James Phillips: The Pattern Plays the Mind. January 10 – February 7. Reception January 10, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm.
Morton Fine Art Holiday Small Works Under $1,000 (online). Until January 30. More information here.
PFA Gallery DC Location (formerly Pazo Fine Art) Dorothy Fratt: Explorations of Color. January 10 – February 28. Reception January 10, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm.
Washington Printmakers Gallery
Members Exhibition until January 25. Featured artists include WPC members Susan Wooddell Campbell, Rosemary Cooley, Kristine DeNinno, Deborah Schindler, Leslie Rose, and Clare Winslow.
Moments / Memories – Intaglio Prints of William Demaria. Until January 25.
Save the Dates
February 19, 11:00 am – Presentation by curator LuLen Walker of artist books and portfolios, Special Collections Library of Georgetown University.
February 22, 1:00 pm – tour with curator Laura Roulet of the Joan and Weber Collection, American Art Museum at the Katzen Center.