From May 13-16, 2023, Forum Gallery exhibits at The American Art Fair. Celebrating its 16th year, the fair will again be at the intimate and elegant Bohemian National Hall on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. 

We will present Raphael Soyer’s poignant social realist masterpiece, Back Stage, 1935, alongside contemporaneous scene paintings by Reginald Marsh.
 

Featured works include the lush and luminous Grace, 1996, by Nelson Shanks (1937-2015) and a charming genre painting by Edward Lamson Henry created in 1877, the earliest work in our presentation.    

Landmark American innovations in abstract art are expressed in works dating from 1915 to 1967 by Morton Livingston-Schamberg, George L.K. Morris, and Willem de Kooning, and precisionism is represented by the important tempera, Barn Abstraction, 1946, by Charles Sheeler. We will present a visionary New York work by Joseph Stella as well as the stunning, evocative 1944 painting Sea and Boat Fantasy by John Marin.   

Two works by Elaine de Kooning, a painting on paper from her coveted “bull series” and a rare oil painting of the artist Aristodimos Kaldis, a favored subject of hers, are dramatic and powerful examples of her importance to the abstract expressionist movement of the 1950’s.    

The natural world and its symbolism round out our presentation in works by George Ault, Gregory Gillespie, Joseph Stella and Max Weber, while the figure in three dimensions is explored in lyrical, unique sculptures by Chaim Gross and Hugo Robus whose estates the gallery is proud to represent.   

We look forward to seeing you at The American Art Fair. Entrance to the fair is free Saturday, May 13th – Tuesday, May 16th.