"Town and Country" Exhibition

Tibor de Nagy Gallery

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Curated by gallery artist, Trevor Winkfield, "Town and Country" was conceived as, "a sampling of souvenirs from both rural and urban areas spanning over 100 years."

Winkfield elaborates: "Working inland from the coast, we first come across a cliff view of the Irish sea by Jack Yeats, painted around 1920, followed by a recent freshwater close-up of fish by photographer Susan Unterberg. No doubt Elliott Green's amorphous monsters lurk nearby, too. The Neo-Romantic Graham Sutherland takes us through entangled foliage, beneath which one would not be at all surprised to find horse chestnuts scattered by Jean Hélion, or Thomas Jones' vegetables growing. Beyond Jonathan Lasker's abstract trees and those of Albert York we find the first intimations of human dwelling in Denton Welch's eerie Coffin House (painted in wartime Britain), a prelude to the squat suburban house of David Deutsch, against which Arthur Dove's ladder might be conveniently propped. Marcel's sister, Suzanne Duchamp, shows us a Dada factory as seen in 1920, just across the way from another dwelling by Charles Burchfield (surrounded by a Marsden Hartley fence). Entertainment is provided by Paul Signac's landmark pointillist theater programme (1888), and perhaps by Louis Eilshemius's lascivious nude at rest. An altogether more serious nude (and one of her strangest) by Jane Freilicher points us once more towards the ocean, where moons by Stephen Mueller will soon rise, followed somewhat later by a snowfall courtesy of Snowflake Bentley. Finally, Gregory Crane's four-panel homage to the seasons brings together town and country, both."

[Image: Denton Welch "The Coffin House" (1946) watercolor and ink on paper 14.25 x 19.75 in.]

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