Marsden Hartley (1877 – 1943), “Mountains No. 22″, 1930. Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches (76.2 x 91.4 cm). Est. $800,000/1.2 million.
Sotheby’s auction of American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture on 3 December 2009 will offer collectors a rich array of works by American artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. The auction includes a [...]

“The Capture of H.B.M. ‘Macedonian’ by the U.S. Frigate ‘United States,’ October 25, 1812,” circa 1840-50.
The exuberant paintings of Thomas Chambers are admired by scholars and collectors of 19th-century American painting. But have there been any major Chambers exhibitions? Not one, at least not until now, with the extraordinary survey of nearly 50 paintings at [...]

The Latin American collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is back on view after three years’ absence. And the reinstallation opens with a piquant flourish in a display of ancient pre-Columbian art that doubles as a solo show for a contemporary artist, and looks like a nightclub interior.
The artist, Jorge Pardo, who [...]

Installation view of “Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976” at the Jewish Museum.
Art is long, art criticism is often very, very brief, its Internet afterlife notwithstanding. Its viability relies on a mixture of prose style, sound-bite-able concepts, timing and its ability to clarify visual experience. Naming a major art movement can also help. [...]

A new exhibition at the British Museum looks at American culture through the medium of printmaking.

Louis Lozowick, New York, c.1925, Lithograph
The British Museum holds the largest collection of American prints up to 1960 outside the United States.

Despite the grandiose title, this is neither the long overdue survey of American art we need in this country, nor even a small-scale “masterpiece” show that would whet the appetite for one.
Instead, Dulwich Picture Gallery’s spring exhibition is a miscellany of works from the collection of the tiny Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, [...]