Curator Liz Seaton journeyed to New York to attend the April 19 opening of the Beach Museum of Art traveling exhibition, “Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists,” at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University. To her left, contributors to the exhibition Jane Myers and Gail Windisch. Some 300 people attended. The exhibition will be at NYU through July 9 before moving on to Syracuse University Art Galleries in New York (January 12 – March 26, 2017).
“Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists” is an overview of the New York-based business best known as the publisher of prints by Regionalist artists Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood. Associated American Artists developed innovative strategies to stimulate interest in collecting art among middle-class Americans. Beginning in the mid-1930s and for more than six decades, the company sold prints, paintings, ceramics, and textiles via mail-order catalogues, department stores, and its galleries. A 288-page catalogue is distributed by Yale University Press. For more information about the publication, seebeach.k-state.edu/support/shop/publications.html.
This post was written by Beach Museum of Art Curator Liz Seaton.