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February Issue
2011
Adam Cave Fine Art in Raleigh, NC,
Offers Exhibit Spanning 150 Years
Adam Cave Fine Art in Raleigh, NC, will present
the exhibit, 100 Plus Years of the Human Story as Seen Through
the Eyes of Artists, featuring works on paper dating back
150 years and including some of the biggest names in Art History:
Mary Cassatt, James McNeil Whistler, Paul Cezanne, Robert Kipness,
William Barnett and Romare Bearden to name a few. The exhibit
will be on view from Feb. 4 through Mar. 19, 2011.
The exhibit includes over twenty-five works on display and for
sale spanning the decades since the late 19th Century with styles
ranging from the Turn of the Century Impressionism and French
Belle Époque, 1940's American Realism reminiscent of the
WPA, as well as more recent contemporary cubist and pop styles.
Realism dominates this show of mostly original printmaking full
of fashionable ladies, family relationships, work life and leisure
time as well as nostalgic images of rural farming and the growth
of industry. All of the etchings, drypoints, engravings, wood
block prints and lithographs in the exhibit come from private
collections and have not been shown publicly before. Although
there is a focus on original prints, the show has an immense variety
of styles that reflect the changes in art and aesthetics over
the 20th Century and might be looked at like a mini Art History
survey course.
On one end is the delicate, fluid line work in the drypoint of
a mother and child, Looking in the Hand Mirror by the ex-patriot
American impressionist Mary Cassatt. Although influenced by fellow
French Impressionists as well as earlier Japanese woodblock prints,
Cassatt's focus on women and children was fresh in 1905. Jump
forward 80 years and you find the bold, stylistic lithographs
of African American artist Romare Bearden, a North Carolina native.
One can clearly see the influences of African art as well as cubist
collage by the likes of Picasso in Beardens lithograph Firebirds.
The late 19th Century is well represented with works by Whistler,
Somm, Cassatt, Tissot and Cezanne. Highlights from the 30's and
40's include lithographs by Harry Sternberg and Gordon Grant as
well as a pin and ink drawing of Rockwell Kent. Later pieces by
Romare Bearden, Robert Kipness and William Barnett demonstrate
a revival in printmaking that took place in the 1970s and 80s.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings,
call the gallery at 919/272-5958 or visit (www.adamcavefineart.com).
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