Bert Gallery http://www.bertgallery.com/blog The Blog of Bert Gallery, Providence Rhode Island Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:01:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Closing This Week – The Allure of the Art Students League http://www.bertgallery.com/blog/2012/04/closing-this-week-the-allure-of-the-art-students-league/ http://www.bertgallery.com/blog/2012/04/closing-this-week-the-allure-of-the-art-students-league/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:00:02 +0000 Bert Gallery http://www.bertgallery.com/blog/?p=2488
Don’t miss seeing, in person, the pastoral watercolors of Woodward or the costumed figures of James Herbert. Herbert and Woodward, along with Lawrence, DeVoll, and Marianetti, spent time at the New York Art Students League and brought the latest art trends to Providence. Click here for exhibit information. Image: Mable M. Woodward (1877-1945), Sheep Feeding in Trough, Watercolor 10″ x 13″, $3,000.

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Pocket Show
What’s New in Inventory
Now Open – through May 31st, 2012

Click Here for Exhibit Slideshow

Every day, the gallery is contacted to sell paintings for families and estates. It might be a painting that was inherited. Perhaps, the furniture was re-arranged, making way for a new painting. Or, as our world is global, a family in Arizona sends a painting back East to sell in the artist’s state of origin. Or even as simple as that we sorted through paintings from our artist collections and estates and reached an uncatalogued body of work never exhibited. This pocket exhibit is a treat to see, if only to remind us of the rich heritage and range of art making in Rhode Island and its neighboring states.

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PODCAST
Danny Chapman, our web designer from DucStudio, did a wonderful talk on The Screen is Not a Canvas, talking about all the latest issues in web design and interface with iPhone and iPad. Click here to listen.

ATTIC SALE
The Attic Sale has some new items – check it out, a new updated and cleaner design. We would like your feedback. Post comments on Facebook, or good old email works, at info@bertgallery.com.

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Featured: James Drummond Herbert. Born in New York City, Herbert lived in Manhattan and studied at Columbia University during his youth. He attended the Art Student’s League of New York from 1920-1923, and again from 1926-1929. While there he studied with eminent artists such as Frank Drummond and Kenneth Hayes Miller. He joined a “coterie of intelligent, socially interested and humanly alive artists” such as Reginald Marsh and Isabel Bishop. As Reginald Marsh was attracted to painting of the social theatrics of New York daily life, Herbert painted from a more personal and psychological perspective, capturing the “performances” of individuals. Dancers and theatrical figures were his subject matter. Herbert came to RISD in 1947 to teach Fashion Illustration at the Art School. Featured Piece: James Drummond Herbert, Lyre Bird Show Girl, Circa 1940s – New York City. Now Open Through April 24, 2012 – Click to View Exhibit’s Slideshow.

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Bert Gallery Press Release
The Allure of the Art Students League
March 14 – April 24, 2012

Gallery Night Providence: April 19, 2012
Gallery Hours: Wednesday–Friday, 11am–5pm & Saturdays 12-4pm

Providence, RI. Bert Gallery, located along the Providence waterfront at Corliss Landing, 540 South Water Street opens a new exhibit, The Allure of the Art Students League. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

While the Rhode Island School of Design remains one of the most prestigious art schools in the country, many 20th Century RISD graduates gravitated to the ever present art “Mecca”: New York City. The New York Arts Student League has always attracted some of the most provocative and thoughtful artists of their time from American impressionist William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) to modern painter Georgia O’Keefe (1887–1986).

The Allure of the Art Students League is an exhibit of Rhode Island artists who studied at the Art Students League and were forever marked by their famous instructors. Mabel Woodward (1877–1945) adopted the plein air technique of her mentor William Merritt Chase, F. Usher Devoll (1873–1941) often used the expressive brushstrokes of Robert Henri, Edna Lawrence influenced by the draftsmanship of John Sloan, James Herbert (1896–1970) continued the figurative tradition of Kenneth Hayes Miller and Louise Marianetti (1916-2009) excelled at the egg tempera technique of William Palmer.

Over 20 paintings by these artists are on exhibit. The show examines the influence of the New York Arts Students League training on these Rhode Island artists. Moreover, when these artists returned to Providence, how they would influence their fellow artists and students. Mabel Woodward, Edna Lawrence and James Herbert would become faculty members at Rhode Island School of Design and their exposure to the New York art world kept their students current with the latest American art trends. Likewise, their membership and exhibition at the Providence Art Club challenged provincial art concepts. For more information on the exhibit, please contact Catherine Little Bert at 401.751.2628.

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We have tweaked our website, based upon our recent survey, to better serve our website visitors. Mostly, you will see navigation changes. Check it out!

Go directly to Curated Exhibits. News ties you into all the gallery happenings. Video & Podcast Collection is extensive – make sure to see the latest Charles Walter Stetson (1858-1911) presentation at Providence Art Club.

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MARCH 1, 8, 22 & 29
Women in Sports Film and Lecture Series. Special Celebration of 40 Years of Providence College Women in Sports. Moore Hall I, Introductory Speaker 7:00pm, Reception 7:30pm, Film 8:00pm.

MARCH 1
A Hero for Daisy. Award-winning documentary introducing the sports equity legislation, in the context of the struggle of the Yale University women’s crew team in the 1970s to secure facilities for practice. Speaker: Lynette Labinger, Title IX lawyer for Cohen vs. Brown University.

MARCH 8
Whip It. Popular film of 2009 about a young girl’s maverick decision to join the roller derby in defiance of her mother’s pressure to enter beauty pageants. Speakers: Rhode Island Roller Derby skater Meghan Follett and her mother, Katherine.

MARCH 20
Community Forum on Athletics & Academics. Feinstein 400, 4:00-5:30pm.

MARCH 22
A League of Their Own. Beloved classic film about the women’s baseball league in the 1940s during World War II. Speaker: Wilma Briggs, former left-fielder for the All-American Girls Baseball League.

MARCH 29
Girlfight. A story of a young female boxer and her ownership of her talents, as well as her boyfriend’s struggles with her success. Speaker: Dr. John Sullivan, PC sports psychologist.

For more information about Sport: Art, please click here. Featured image: Sport Art Public Mural by Peter Tigler & Dominic Channon, ’13.

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FEBRUARY 23RD
Lecture: The Sports Show
David Little, Curator, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Ryan Concert Hall, Smith Center for the Arts,
Providence College, 7pm.

Check out the latest reviews of The Sports Show!
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Feb 2012: Click Here
ARTnews Magazine, Feb 2012: Click Here

For more information about Sport: Art, please click here. Image: Gordon Parks, American 1912-2006; Muhammad Ali (face sweating), 1970; Gelatin silver print; printed later, 14 x 11 inches; Courtesy of The Gordon Parks Foundation and Howard Greenberg Gallery; © The Gordon Parks Foundation.

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FEBRUARY 1ST
Lectures and Discussion: Imaging Movement in Art and Science – Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery, 3:30-5:00pm. A series of brief lectures and discussion about historical and current methods of imaging movement in art and science. Prof. Alex Knodell, Greek Art & Athletics; Prof. Paul Crenshaw, Leonardo da Vinci’s Art and the Examination of the Movement; Prof Dave Baier, Musculoskeletal Biomechanics and Imaging Techniques.

FEBRUARY 16TH
Lecture: The Negro Baseball League: An American Legacy. Bryan Motley, Filmmaker. Ryan Concert Hall, Smith Center for the Arts, 7:00pm.

FEBRUARY 23RD
Lecture: The Sports Show. David Little, Curator, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Ryan Concert Hall, Smith Center for the Arts, 7:00pm.

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Gallery Night Providence
Smith Center for the Arts, Providence College
Thursday, January 26, 2012

5:00PM-6:45PM:
Providence College Exhibition Reception
6:45PM: Welcome & Gallery Night Preview – Ryan Concert Hall, Smith Center for the Arts
7:00PM: Artist Lecture by Joseph Norman – Reilly Auditorium in Ryan Concert Hall, Smith Center for the Arts

Providence, RI. The community is invited to a very special evening in which Gallery Night Providence, a citywide celebration of the visual arts, previews its 2012 season at the Providence College SPORT: ART exhibition. At 7:00, all are invited to a gallery talk by University of Georgia Art Professor, Joseph Norman, on his series, “Out at Home: The Negro Baseball League”, on view in the Reilly Gallery.

Gallery Night Providence helps kick off two special SPORT: ART exhibitions on the Providence College Campus: “Out at Home! The Negro Baseball League”, Joseph Norman Lithographs at the Reilly Art Gallery, Smith Center for the Arts and the Student Sports Photography Exhibition at the Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery, Hunt-Cavanagh Hall.

The Providence College galleries have been part of the Gallery Night Providence visual arts celebration for over a decade. Gallery Night Providence, starting its 16th season this March, is a free, fun-filled introduction to Providence’s exciting art scene. On the third Thursday of the month, from March through November, over twenty-one of the city’s hot “art spots” open their doors inviting you to a visual arts party.

The SPORT: ART exhibition and reception is free and open to the public. There will be no Gallery Night bus for the evening but there is free parking next to the Smith Center for the Arts. For more information on the Gallery Night Providence preview, please contact Catherine Bert: at bertgallery@cox.net and for the exhibits contact: Sara Young, PC Gallery Art Curator, at syoung3@providence.edu. Additional programming schedules are found at http://www.providence.edu/sportart2012.

Providence, R.I. – Providence College and its departments of art and art history, and athletics will host a two-month showcase of exhibits, lectures, and programs, focusing on sport and art entitled, SPORT: ART, from January 26 through March 29, 2012. The project will explore the significance and relationship of art and sport through media and fine arts, while examining gender, race, and cultural identities.

SPORT: ART is an unprecedented collaboration among departments across campus, promoting student involvement and diversity, combined with bringing new audiences to the world of art.

In conjunction with SPORT: ART, the College will recognize the achievements of African- Americans throughout the month of February, which is Black History Month. Exhibitions, special lectures, and receptions will pay tribute to the extraordinary contributions of distinguished African-Americans in U.S. history.

Featured images: Out at Home lithograph, courtesy of Joe Norman & the Newport Art Museum (left); Soccer photo by Jessica Ho ’14 (right).

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