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Thomas Hart Benton: Ships and Stories
May 28, 2019 Thomas Hart Benton’s work had a profound effect on American art. Born in 1889, he lived through World War l,... Read more -
Joan Miró’s The Reaper: A Political Education
May 24, 2019 The world looked to Spain. The Spanish Civil War had begun in 1936 when Francisco Franco and the fascists attempted... Read more -
Mary Cassatt: Topping the Art Market
May 15, 2019 The talent, determination and perseverance of Mary Cassatt led to her becoming one of the world’s leading Impressionist painters and... Read more -
Milton Avery: Summer with the Averys
May 9, 2019 I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any... Read more
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Jasper Johns: 2020 Retrospective at The Whitney
May 2, 2019 Jasper Johns will celebrate his 89th birthday in a few weeks. He’ll probably spend the day drawing and painting in... Read more -
KAWS Awes in Hong Kong
April 28, 2019 On April 1st, Sotheby’s Hong Kong was filled with millennials, many in hoodies, who bought about $28 million dollars worth... Read more -
Marc Chagall’s View of the Notre Dame Cathedral
April 18, 2019 Paris. No word sounded sweeter to me. -Marc Chagall As the world watched the Notre Dame Cathedral burn last Monday,... Read more -
Keith Haring Signed Growing Series at the Surovek Gallery
April 11, 2019 After graduating from high school, Keith Haring left his family home in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, and spent just two semesters at... Read more
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Dale Nichols Paintings at Surovek Gallery
April 3, 2019 The wistful paintings of Dale Nichols belie the unique story of the artist himself. He is considered a Regionalist artist.... Read more -
Richard Diebenkorn and the Bay Area Figurative School
March 30, 2019 The market for mid-century art has been extremely healthy, as evidenced by increasing museum visitors in cities around the world... Read more -
Frank Stella Culling His Collection at Christie’s
March 21, 2019 Frank Stella hasn’t just made great art for more than six decades, he’s also been collecting great art for more... Read more -
Tom Wesselmann’s Work in New York and the Netherlands
March 14, 2019 I find sometimes I get so excited working, especially when starting new ideas; I get so excited that I get... Read more
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Surovek Gallery Show Exposes Benton’s Modernist Roots
March 5, 2019 This article by Jan Sjostrom originally posted on palmbeachdailynews.com In Thomas Hart Benton ’s painting “Going West,” a train pulled... Read more -
Marc Chagall: Exceeds Expectations at Christie’s London
February 28, 2019 Marc Chagall: Top Lot at Christie's A rare painting by Marc Chagall, that was part of a private Swiss collection,... Read more -
Thomas Hart Benton: Mechanics of Form
February 12, 2019 The Surovek Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida, is presenting a new exhibition of around 65 works by Thomas Hart Benton... Read more -
Winslow Homer and the Camera
February 7, 2019 Winslow Homer began his career as a freelance illustrator for Harper’s Weekly and other major publications of the day. His... Read more
![Clay Surovek of Surovek Gallery organized Thomas Hart Benton: Mechanics of Form in collaboration with Lester-Thompson Fine Art. Behind him is the show’s most prominent painting, the 1926 oil Going West. The exhibition runs through March 31. [Damon Higgins/palmbeachdailynews.com]](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/ws-artlogicwebsite1323/usr/images/news/main_image/20/ar-190309047-1.jpg)
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Grant Wood and Sister, Nan
January 31, 2019 Grant Wood eked out a living in his early years. He was born in 1891, to a poor farming family... Read more -
Guy Wiggins Winter Scenes at Surovek Gallery
January 24, 2019 Guy Wiggins is often called the last great American Impressionist painter. Wiggins was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1883,... Read more -
Frank Stella: 1977 Screenprints at Surovek Gallery
January 17, 2019 When Frank Stella moved to New York in 1958, at age 22, he had graduated from Princeton and just wanted... Read more -
Robert Indiana: LOVE At the Mall
January 9, 2019 The fate of the estate of Robert Indiana is still uncertain, but there is no uncertainty about the increased interest... Read more
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Andrew Wyeth: Main Gaff Watercolor at Surovek Gallery
January 3, 2019 Andrew Wyeth is one of America’s most esteemed, and least understood, artists. Last year, as part of the American Masters... Read more -
Walton Ford: La Historia Me Absolverá
December 25, 2018 In my work, I have chosen to deal with the cultural history of animals-how wild animals have interacted with humans... Read more -
Keith Haring’s Growing Series at Surovek Gallery
December 5, 2018 Keith Haring brought underground urban art into the avant-garde New York art scene and into the mainstream. Just in his... Read more -
Looking at Art with Alex Katz
November 13, 2018 Alex Katz works out every morning before he paints. This has been his routine, seven days a week, for decades,... Read more
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Norman Rockwell: Father and Son and JFK
November 8, 2018 Norman Rockwell was a great story teller. He had the remarkable ability to capture a single moment and make it... Read more -
Alex Katz Sculptures and Fine Art Prints at Surovek Gallery
October 24, 2018 Alex Katz works out first thing every morning before he begins to paint. “I used to do two hundred sit-ups,... Read more -
Works by Robert Indiana at Surovek Gallery
October 17, 2018 Robert Indiana died on May 19, at age 89, at his home in Vinalhaven, Maine, where he had lived for... Read more -
KAWS for Christmas
October 4, 2018 For more than fifty years the Museum of Modern Art has been commissioning artists to create designs for its annual... Read more
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Joan Miro, Hemmingway and The Farm in Paris
September 26, 2018 A retrospective of the work of Joan Miro is opening next week at the Galeries Nationales of the Palais in... Read more -
Dale Nichols: War in the Corn
September 20, 2018 Just weeks after the U.S. dropped a bomb on Hiroshima, effectively ending the Second World War, TIME Magazine reported on... Read more -
The Radiant Colors of Wolf Kahn’s Landscapes
September 6, 2018 The artist’s alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture’s needs, to feed... Read more -
Neil Welliver: Painting in the Wilderness
August 30, 2018 'I celebrate nature, I am nature…' – Neil Welliver Neil Welliver was one of America's leading landscape painters. His large... Read more
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Marc Chagall Original Work From His Later Years
August 21, 2018 In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and... Read more -
Grant Wood’s Deceptive Overalls
August 2, 2018 The Whitney Museum show Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables , the most extensive retrospective of Wood’s work ever... Read more -
Palm Beach Art Galleries
July 26, 2018 Palm Beach is home to some of the finest and most distinctive art galleries in the world. Each art gallery... Read more -
Wyeth: The life of Andrew Wyeth in bold strokes
July 17, 2018 The works of Andrew Wyeth have always garnered public adoration. His original works are coveted by art collectors. Wyeth’s exhibits... Read more
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Backwoods Aristocrat Thomas Hart Benton
July 13, 2018 The American public could easily relate to the down-home, heartland feel of the work of Thomas Hart Benton. His Regionalist... Read more -
Keith Haring Mural Uncovered in Amsterdam After Thirty Years Under Wraps
June 28, 2018 Keith Haring’s work became a New York staple, with a built-in audience, when he began drawing his iconic designs on... Read more -
Jasper Johns: No Explanation Needed
June 21, 2018 At age 88, Jasper Johns has remained one of America’s most prominent living artists. He lives, and works, in his... Read more -
Maurice Prendergast’s Work Helped to Set New Record at Christie’s
June 6, 2018 Maurice Prendergast brought modernism from Europe to America, around the turn of the twentieth century, while still maintaining his own... Read more
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Frank Stella Fine Art Prints at Surovek Gallery
May 29, 2018 The 1970s was a time when critics began to talk about, “the death of painting.” Frank Stella rejuvenated both painting... Read more -
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Au Moulin de la Galette
May 24, 2018 In the north of Paris is the Montmartre district, known for its windmill, cabarets and picturesque setting. Montmartre has attracted... Read more -
Reginald Marsh: Modern Times
May 16, 2018 Reginald Marsh was one of the most important chroniclers of the changes in American urban life during the first half... Read more -
Femme Aux Cheveux Flous: Picasso’s Last Muse
April 26, 2018 Pablo Picasso had two wives, four children by three women and many mistresses. He painted them all, but it was... Read more
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Thomas Hart Benton: Mystery Solved
April 18, 2018 Thomas Hart Benton was one of the most popular, interesting and controversial artists of twentieth century America. He was born... Read more -
Wolf Kahn Oil Paintings at Surovek Gallery
April 5, 2018 Wolf Kahn and his wife of 61 years, abstract artist Emily Mason, leave their New York home and studio every... Read more -
Alex Katz Sculptures and Prints at Surovek Gallery
March 29, 2018 At age 90, Alex Katz still jogs, works out, and draws or paints every day, even when he has to... Read more -
Andrew Wyeth: Over the Hill
March 10, 2018 Andrew Wyeth would have celebrated his 100th birthday last July. In the early 1940s, Andrew Wyeth was viewed as a... Read more
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Stephen Scott Young Watercolors
February 28, 2018 Stephen Scott Young is a masterful artist who divides his time painting in his studio in Jupiter, Florida, on the... Read more -
Roy Lichtenstein: Brushstrokes
February 23, 2018 Roy Lichtenstein was born and raised in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. His family was able to provide him with a good education and exposed him to the museums and theaters around New York. He went on to become a thoughtful artist and educator, whose work influenced the direction of art in America and around the world. Read more -
Norman Rockwell: The Tour and the Controversy
February 5, 2018 The Four Freedoms on Tour Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms spoke to a nation in turmoil during World War ll. The... Read more -
Marc Chagall’s Works Set New Record
New Auction Highs for Marc Chagall Paintings January 18, 2018 Two of Marc Chagall’s paintings sold for over the estimated price at November’s Sotheby’s Auction. Le Grand cirque, a ten-foot wide painting, that Chagall did in 1956, was sold to a bidder at Sotheby’s Asia for $16 million. The estimate price for Le Grand cirque was $15 million. Read more
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The Legacy of Alexander Calder
January 10, 2018 Looking at Calder's Early Years Art critic, Jed Perl, has written the first biography of one of America's most beloved... Read more -
The Unique Perspective of Mary Cassatt
January 4, 2018 Women should be someone and not something. Those words, written by Mary Cassatt, don’t sound very radical in the twenty-first... Read more -
Wolf Kahn: More Vibrant Than Ever
December 21, 2017 Wolf Kahn has been awarded the 2017 U.S. State Department’s International Medal of Arts. Kahn’s work has been part of... Read more -
The Elegant Watercolors of Henrietta & Winslow
December 8, 2017 Winslow Homer was in his forties when he began to create some of the most beautiful watercolor paintings the world... Read more
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Julio Larraz at Home in Miami
December 2, 2017 Julio Larraz, one of the world’s finest Latin artists, lives and works in Miami. Though noted for his remarkable paintings,... Read more -
Neil Welliver and the Art and Artists of Maine
November 9, 2017 No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.... Read more -
John Whalley: In the Details
October 3, 2017 John Whalley is not just a great artist. He is also a joyful and generous man, who shares his fascination... Read more -
Jeff Koons Popeye Going to Boston
September 26, 2017 The focal piece of the Wynn Boston Harbor casino, currently under construction, will be Jeff Koons‘ 6-foot, 5-inch Popeye sculpture,... Read more
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Ellsworth Kelly: Planes and Color
September 14, 2017 Ellsworth Kelly had his first solo exhibit at the Galerie Arnaud, Paris, in 1951. He’s considered an iconic innovator in... Read more -
Pablo Picasso Originals: From the Côte d’Azur to Chicago
September 4, 2017 Picasso's Pottery Pablo Picasso lived in Paris during World War ll. The Nazis occupied France from 1940 through 1944, and... Read more -
Sensitive to the World
August 29, 2017 “The artist does not live in bliss.” wrote Joan Miro. “He is sensitive to the world, to the pulsation of... Read more -
Martin Lewis: In and Out of the Shadows
August 13, 2017 Martin Lewis was one of the best printmakers to ever live and work in America. In the 33-volume Masters of... Read more
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Keith Haring Originals: Lost and Found
August 4, 2017 In the early 1980s, before artists were more often arrested than commissioned by cities to paint on public spaces, Keith... Read more -
Norman Rockwell: Elusive Originals
August 1, 2017 The images that Norman Rockwell painted are ubiquitous in American culture. They appear on mugs, plates and on the walls... Read more -
Marc Chagall: Original Works at Surovek Gallery
July 25, 2017 Marc Chagall’s work seems more vibrant, more colorful and more hopeful than ever. In spite of being born into poverty... Read more -
Dale Nichols: Painting the Red Barn
July 18, 2017 This year Nebraska is celebrating 150 years of statehood. Nebraska has been the home of some very interesting people including... Read more
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The Whimsical World of Orville Bulman
June 16, 2017 Orville Bulman’s paintings are joyful, whimsical and playful. It’s hard to imagine that his paintings of lush jungles, tigers, giraffe... Read more -
Anthony Thieme in St. Augustine’s Lost Colony
June 12, 2017 Anthony Thieme in Rockport There are still people in Rockport, Massachusetts, who were children when Anthony Thieme and his wife,... Read more -
Truly American: Tom Wesselmann Prints
June 1, 2017 Tom Wesselmann spent much of his young adult life searching for his identity, both as an artist and a human... Read more -
Roy Lichtenstein’s Serendipity
May 24, 2017 Serendipity in the Army Roy Lichtenstein was inducted into the US Army and sent to England just before Christmas in... Read more
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The Work of Jasper Johns
May 19, 2017 The work of Jasper Johns has never fit into any category. Not a minimalist, abstract expressionist, Dadaist, modernist or Pop... Read more -
Alexander Calder Originals: Later Works
May 11, 2017 Alexander Calder turned 71 in 1969. He was still playful, energetic and continued to create fantastic drawings, paintings, prints and... Read more -
Guy C. Wiggins: Loved Summer, Painted Snow
May 4, 2017 Guy C. Wiggins, Winter From his studio window in Manhattan, Guy C. Wiggins could look down Madison Avenue and see... Read more -
Andrew Wyeth: Still Intriguing After 100 Years
April 27, 2017 Andrew Wyeth would have been 100 years old in July and probably would have skipped the celebrations and gone out... Read more
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Grant Wood: From Paris to Iowa
April 20, 2017 When Grant Wood’s American Gothic was first exhibited, it was a hit in Chicago and a flop in Iowa. It... Read more -
Mary Cassatt: A Resilient American Artist
April 5, 2017 When Mary Cassatt was fifteen years old she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia. The school... Read more -
Winslow Homer: Creating Uniquely American Watercolors
March 31, 2017 In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries American artists copied the techniques, and worked in the shadows of, European watercolorists. Watercolors in America were used to make maps, record forays into the country and illustrate texts. Winslow Homer’s watercolor paintings changed all that and influenced many other painters to produce such great works in watercolors that, by the 1920s, watercolor was seen as a uniquely American medium. Read more -
George Bellows: Chronicling the World Around Him
March 25, 2017 George Bellows was not only one of America’s greatest painters and printmakers but also a chronicler of the social changes... Read more
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