December 7-10, 2017
Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida – Thursday, December 7, through Sunday, December 10, 2017. Booth C18.
For its third outing participating in Art Basel | Miami Beach, Menconi + Schoelkopf presents a highly-curated group exhibition of paintings by the early American modernists in and adjacent to the circle of Alfred Stieglitz. These dozen masterworks will illustrate a narrative that joins the explosion of early modernism in the United States, beginning with the 1913 Armory Show, through its even more incendiary development in the Post-war years as Abstract Expressionism. Pivotal works by such artists as Alfred Maurer will show the development of an American Fauve technique. Works by John Marin, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe and Oscar Bluemner illustrate the early moves toward Expressionism, abstraction, and Cubism, seen now as definitive steps away from realism and towards the painterly upheaval of the 1950s. Signal works by Stuart Davis, Ralston Crawford, and Charles Biederman will evince a different, no less powerful, lineage of that germinal moment in American painting—hard-edged abstraction and a prescient view of commercialism that can only be called proto-Pop.
Miami Beach Convention Center | Booth C18