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Eric Baumgartner
Senior Vice President
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
HIRSCHL AND ADLER GALLERIES WAS FOUNDED IN 1952 AND HAS ENJOYED A STELLAR REPUTATION FOR PRESENTING WORKS AND EXHIBITIONS OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF BOTH EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ART. THE GALLERY INVENTORY INCLUDES A DIVERSE RANGE OF MEDIUMS: PAINTINGS, WATERCOLORS, DRAWINGS, PRINTS AND SCULPTURE Just ALL Document THE Delivery OF GALLERY Possessor, STUART FELD, AND THE GALLERY'S STAFF, IN RESEARCHING AND ORGANIZING EXHIBITIONS OF BOTH HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY THEMES AND FEATURING Private ARTISTS OF NOTE.
FOR MANY YEARS, HIRSCHL AND ADLER WAS LOCATED ON E 70th STREET IN AN ELEGANT TOWNHOUSE NEAR THE FRICK MUSEUM. THEIR RELATIVELY NEW HEADQUARTERS, IN THE CROWN Edifice, 730 Fifth AVENUE AT 57th STREET IN NEW YORK, IS AN IMPRESSIVE AND THOUGHTFUL EXPANSION OF EXHIBITION Space, PRIVATE VIEWING ROOMS AND INVENTORY ACCESSIBILITY. THE GALLERY'Due south UNIQUE AMERICAN FURNITURE COLLECTION SERVES Equally AN Beautiful Properties FOR THE PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE ON DISPLAY. http://www.hirschlandadler.com/most.html
ERIC BAUMGARTNER, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF AMERICAN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, IS KNOWLEDGEABLE AND INFORMATIVE AND E'er A Pleasure TO WORK WITH AND I AM VERY PLEASED TO Introduce ERIC TO THE LRFA Web log. HIS PASSION AND SCHOLARSHIP ON AMERICAN ART IN Full general AND 19th CENTURY AMERICAN HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL PAINTERS AND NEO-CLASSICAL SCULPTORS IN PARTICULAR Take ENRICHED ME AND MY CLIENTS WHEN VISITING THE GALLERY OR THE GALLERY'S OUTSTANDING EXHIBITION BOOTHS AT ART FAIRS THAT INCLUDE THE WINTER ANTIQUES Show AT THE PARK Avenue Armory, NEW YORK, THE AMERICAN ART FAIR AT BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HALL ON E 73rd STREET OR THE FORTHCOMING Art DEALERS Association Fine art SHOW FROM MARCH 4 – 8TH. http://world wide web.artdealers.org/the-fine art-show/information
ERIC, THANK You VERY MUCH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE LRFA BLOG.
WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF HIRSCHL & ADLER GALLERIES? WHEN WAS It FOUNDED AND WHERE WAS IT ORIGINALLY LOCATED?
Hirschl & Adler Galleries was the brainchild of art dealers Norman Hirschl and Abraham Adler. They formed a partnership in 1953 and opened a gallery in the Marguery Hotel at 270 Park Avenue between 47th and 48th Streets. Mr. Hirschl had previously worked at the prestigious Macbeth Gallery, and, with his Macbeth colleague Alfred Duveen, rediscovered the work of the enigmatic American landscape painter Thomas Chambers. So while American art wasn't the prime number focus of the early Hirschl & Adler Galleries in the 1950s, the partners didn't shy abroad from it, either.
HIRSCHL AND ADLER GALLERIES
WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL FOCUS OF THE GALLERY AND WHAT ARTISTS AND WORKS WERE IN INVENTORY DURING ITS FORMATIVE YEARS?
One of the first gallery shows organized by the immature Hirschl & Adler was Five Schools and Five Centuries of Fine art, a bear witness which encapsulated the partners' aspiration to evidence all schools of Western European and American art from the Renaissance into the mid-20th century. Five Schools traveled to vi southern cities to pop and disquisitional acclaim, and fix the bar for hundreds of survey and monographic exhibitions that the gallery organized over the next 60 years. Hirschl & Adler's day-to-day inventory back in the 1950s included the mainstays of art collecting at the fourth dimension—Old Main portraits, English portraits from the 18th century, European genre paintings from the 19th century, Barbizon landscapes, and French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Toward the finish of its commencement decade, Hirschl & Adler represented the manor of American artist Robert Henri, the leader of the so-chosen Ashcan School, so American art institute its manner into its inventory even in these early years.
Masterworks: The All-time of Hirschl & Adler
Installation view, 2011
HOW HAS THE GALLERY EVOLVED OVER THE SIX DECADES THAT H&A HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE?
By the mid-1960s, Norman Hirschl and Abe Adler noticed that American art—the neglected stepchild in Western fine art—was receiving more than and more attention past art historians and museums, and recognized a concern opportunity by adding American fine art to its formidable repertoire. They went searching for someone who could lead a new department devoted to American fine art, and in 1967 institute Stuart Feld, who had been Associate Curator in Charge of the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Stuart was a frequent visitor to Hirschl & Adler Galleries during his years as a immature curator, and found many American treasures that plant their way into the Museum's collection, including ii great trompe l'oeil all the same lifes by William Harnett and Jefferson David Chalfant. Nether Stuart'due south guidance and vision over the next 46 years, Hirschl & Adler's focus shifted to American art, and it quickly became a leading specialist in the field.
Masterworks: The Best of Hirschl & Adler
Installation view, 2011
STUART FELD IS PRESIDENT OF HIRSCHL & ADLER. FOR HOW MANY YEARS HAS HE HELD THAT POSITION AND WHAT IS HIS PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND IN THE ART World?
Stuart joined Hirschl & Adler in 1967. He holds a Main's of Arts from Harvard University, where he was one of the first graduate students to specialize in the diverse arts of the United states. He worked as a teaching swain at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, and assisted the director of the University's Addison Gallery of American Art. In 1961, Stuart was granted a fellowship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and eventually served equally Acquaintance Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture. In 1965, he co-authored the get-go catalogue of The Met's American art collection. He was invited to join Hirschl & Adler Galleries to spearhead a new department devoted to American art. The new department proved to be so successful that, by 1982, Stuart became the gallery's sole proprietor.
IN OUR NEXT Web log, ERIC Will SHARE HIS ACADEMIC AND Professional HISTORY. ERIC IS A Great RACONTEUR AS WELL AS A SEASONED DEALER IN AMERICAN ART. Please Have THIS OPPORTUNITY TO VOICE Whatever QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS THAT You HAVE ON THIS RICH AND SIGNIFICANT Aspect OF THE ARTS. I KNOW HIS REPLIES Will Exist BOTH INFORMATIVE AND ENGAGING.
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