RECENT ACQUISITIONS                 SEPTEMBER 27 - OCTOBER 22, 2011

This exhibition will consist of 25 American, British , French, and Mexican works of art, most  of which come from private collections and have not been seen for at least 40 years.

Featured is L’Avocat (Avocat plaidant), a remarkable watercolor and gouache by the celebrated Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). 

British works include watercolors by such masters of the medium as Francis Towne (1739/40-1816); Peter de Wint (1784-1849); Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827); John Sell Cotman (1782 – 1842); David Cox (1783 – 1857); David Roberts (1796 – 1864);  John Varley (1772 – 1842); and Cornelius Varley (1781- 1873).

Modern British art is represented by two extraordinary drawings by Walter Richard Sickert (1860 – 1942); a gouache by Gwen John (1876 – 1939); Helen Anrep in Duncan Grant’s Studio, a painting by Bloomsbury artist Vanessa Bell (1879 – 1961); and pottery by Quentin Bell (1910 – 1996).

Works by American artists include watercolors by Theodore Robinson (1852 – 1896); and the modernists Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924); Charles Prendergast (1863-1948); and John Marin (1870-1953); and paintings by William Glackens (1870 – 1938); and Albert York (1928 – 2009).

The Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo (1899 – 1991) is represented by the 1926 watercolor Two Children.


HONORE DAUMIER (1808-1879)
L’Avocat (Avocat plaidant)
Watercolor and gouache over smudges of the same medium, 6 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (sight)
House with small windows and greenery with slanted roof and female figure at lower rright
MAURICE BRAZIL PRENDERGAST (1858-1924)
Old Paris on the Quai
Watercolor and pencil on paper, 9 7/8 x 13 9/16 inches
Executed circa 1891
Plate with figure in blue dress and yellow hat by marble post, with pink and white patterened edge
QUENTIN BELL (1910 – 1996)
1898
Fired and glazed clay, 9 1/4 inches (diameter)
Executed during the early 1990s
Two figures--one in blue dress and one in purple dress in front of white bed in room with blue walls
RUFINO TAMAYO (1899 - 1991)
Two Children
Watercolor on paper, 8 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches (sight)
Executed in 1926
Three elephants in circus with audience of figures looking in
JOHN MARIN (1870 – 1953)
Circus
Watercolor and conte crayon on paper, 7 x 9 1/4 inches (sight)
Executed in 1941
Woman in light grey dress with hands together on yellow patterned cough in pink room with gold circle painted mat at edges
VANESSA BELL (1879 – 1961)
Helen Anrep in Duncan Grant’s Studio, Charleston
Oil on canvas, 22 1/2 x 18 inches
Probably painted during the 1940s
Woman leaning against edge of bed with man sleeping in chair
WALTER RICHARD SICKERT (1860 – 1942)
Vacerra
Black crayon, pencil, and bistre ink on paper, 
14 3/8 x 10 15/16 inches (sight)
Executed about 1912
WILLIAM GLACKENS (1870– 1938)
Narcissus and Anemones
Oil on canvas, 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (sight)
Painted about 1925 - 1930
Group of figures on hill with white umbrella nd flock of birds at lower right corner
DAVID COX (1783 – 1857)
Women Seated on a Grassy Slope Overlooking the Sea
Watercolor over black chalk on paper, 5 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches (sight)
Probably executed during the late 1830s
CHARLES CONDER (1868 – 1909)
Fête Galante
Watercolor on silk, 16 1/8 x 11 inches
Executed about 1897 - 1900
Church with tall windows and single figure in foreground
JOHN SELL COTMAN (1782 – 1842)
Cley Church, Norfolk
Brown wash and pencil on paper, 6 11/16 x 10 1/2 inches (sight)
Executed in 1818
Red, purple, and white flowers in grey tin on brown table
ALBERT YORK (1928 – 2009)
Three Anemones in Tin Can
Oil on masonite, 11 15/16 x 10 inches
Painted in 1978
Group of figures on the beach with umbrellas
DAVID LEVINE (1926 – 2009)
Line Up, Coney Island
Watercolor and charcoal on paper, 13 11/16 x 18 3/4 inches (sight)
Executed in 1962

White stone buildings with large tree at right with two figures in foreground with group of dogs
THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1756 – 1827)
Hengar House at St Tudy, near Bodmin, Cornwall
Watercolor and ink on paper, 7 15/16 x 10 11/16 inches (sight)
Executed about 1795
Red, white, yellow and blue flowers in yellow vase in front of red checled wallpaper
Room with beams, brown cloth haning and bench at lower left
ROBERT HILLS (1769 – 1844)
Interior of a Byre
Watercolor and pencil on paper, 9 1/16 x 12 inches 
Executed about 1819
Figures in long robes on banks of river with palm trees and buildings at horizon
EDWARD LEAR (1812 – 1888)
View of Howakte on the Nile
Watercolor, pen and ink and pencil on paper, 8 1/16 x 13 3/4 inches
Executed in 1867

Speaking figure in black robes with arm raised in speech
Group of four women in dresses with big skirts walking towards the left, wearing hats, with building with columns at upper right
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