This Week’s Events: Masterpiece London, Aspen Antiques & Fine Arts Fair, Frederic Remington at the Met & More
London
Masterpiece London
June 29-July 5, 2017
The Royal Hospital Chelsea
Chelsea, London SW3
For more information, visit: www.masterpiecefair.com
Following up last week’s Olympia Art & Antiques Fair is an equally prestigious, London-based fair sure to please those with an eye for antiques and design. Launched in 2010, Masterpiece London has drawn close to 40,000 visitors each year for a week-long exhibition of pieces both traditional and contemporary. This year, the fair will be increasing its efforts to focus on the latter of these styles with its “Masterpiece Presents” feature, which will see it team up with Paul Kasmin Gallery to commission a large-scale installation by Chilean artist Ivan Navarro at the fair’s entrance (which for just $900,000, can be yours to take home!).
As the fair’s organizers put it, “Masterpiece has always offered collectors the opportunity to view and buy masterworks from antiquity to the present day, and this year we are stretching boundaries.”
With 29 new exhibitors and 150 international galleries (including DAG Modern, David Gill Gallery and Thomas Coulborn & Sons) on display, it’s safe to say that this year’s Masterpiece is doing exactly that.
Colorado
Aspen Antiques and Fine Arts Fair
July 1-9, 2017
Aspen Ice Garden
233 W Hyman Ave, Aspen, CO
For more information, visit: www.aspenartfairs.com
Of course, if you don’t feel like booking an impromptu trip across the pond this weekend, the 15th annual Aspen Antiques and Fine Arts Fair offers a slightly more traversable option for antiques aficionados. Showcasing the finest in art, antiques, furniture, and jewelry, the fair returns to its home at the 16,000 sq/ft Ice Garden in downtown Aspen to host an assemblage of collectors and galleries including J.S. Fearnley, Shreve & Co., Jeff Bridgman, Roberto Freitas American Antiques, and Cavalier Galleries.
New York
Frederic Remington at the Met
July 3, 2017-January 2, 2018
The Met Fifth Avenue
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
For more information, visit: www.metmuseum.org
When it comes to depictions of the Wild West, there are few painters whose name carries more weight than that of Frederic Remington. Despite being born a thousand miles from the lawless lands with which he came to be associated, Remington was about as inundated with its culture as the cowboys and Indians themselves.
Both the son of a Civil War captain and the cousin of Eliphalet Remington, the founder of Remington Arms Company (considered to be America's oldest gunmaker), Remington first garnered national attention after receiving an 83-painting commission by Theodore Roosevelt, later dubbed Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail. It wasn’t long before his glorified and modern (at the time, at least) depictions of trappers, Native Americans, and U.S. Calvary-- many of which were taken from his own first hand accounts -- had solidified his place as a trendsetter in an increasingly popular subgenre, with one critic even declaring that he would “one day be listed among our great American painters.”
This week, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will commemorate Remington’s role as the “chronicler par excellence of the American West” by unveiling a collection of over 20 of the painter’s most iconic illustrations, as well as sculptures, works on paper, and illustrated books.
Maine
Will Barnet: Family Homage
July 1-August 29, 2017
Ogunquit Museum of American Art
543 Shore Road, Ogunquit, ME
For more information, visit: www.ogunquitmuseum.org
An exquisite painter, printer, and teacher whose students included the likes of Paul Jenkins, James Rosenquist, and Emil Milan, Will Barnet was many things to many people. His career lasted an astounding 81 years (and his life an even more astounding 101), over the course of which he developed a mastery of the figure in both human and animal form, with his depictions of both often dipping into the surreal and dreamlike. By the time of his passing in 2012, Barnet had grown to be considered as one of the preeminent figures of 20th-century American art.
In collaboration with both his family and the foundation created in his name, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art will be presenting 29 of Barnet’s rarely exhibited and most personal paintings, tracking his uncompromising progression through abstract and traditionalist styles.