Then and Now: American Social Realism
NEW YORK, New York
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Forum Gallery presents a group exhibition of American social realism featuring paintings, drawings, and sculpture dating from the first half of the Twentieth Century to today. Artists working in the years between the world wars and well known for their contributions are shown side by side with contemporary American Artists whose work continues the humanist legacy of social realism.
American social realism took shape in the 1920s in the centers of commerce also home to artistic communities, like New York and Chicago. The cultural shift in the United States seen in the art of the social realists bridges the high modernist ideals of Europe and the struggle and very human drama evoked by the Great Depression and the political upheavals of the 1920s and 30s.
Wood Gaylor and American Modernism
HUNTINGTON, New York
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GAYLOR, (Samuel) Wood (American, 1883-1957) Arts Ball, 1918, 1918 Oil on canvas 27 x 45 in. (68.6 x 114.3) Private Collection
Heckscher Museum
On View January 23 to May 23, 2021, at The Hecksher Museum of Art
Scenes of festive revelers, clowns and performers and his fellow artists are the signature subject matter of Wood Gaylorâs raucous paintings.
Wood Gaylor and American Modernism includes two dozen artworks by Gaylor. The artwork is interspersed with paintings, sculptures, and drawings from The
Heckscher Museumâs collection representing artists that traveled in Gaylorâs social and artistic circles.Â
Wood Gaylor, Quietly Dazzling, Helped an Art World Invent Itself
Two shows introduce a forgotten innovator who fused modernism, folk art and documentary to portray his beloved New York scene.
Wood Gaylor made gregarious portrayals of New York artists of the Penguin group. In “Posters” (1920), he showed them collaborating on enormous painted posters for a Red Cross bond drive in 1918.Credit.Samuel Gaylor and The Heckscher Museum of Art
Jan. 21, 2021
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. In the early decades of the 20th-century, things happened in the New York art world when painters like Walt Kuhn, Florine Stettheimer and Wood Gaylor took matters into their own hands. They established clubs and professional organizations and mounted exhibitions including the 1913 Armory Show, which jump-started American modernism with heady exposure to the European kind.