#Tanager Gallery

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Tanager Gallery on 10th Street, 1959. Lois Dodd is in the window.

Photo: John Cohen via the Jewish Museum

[swede1952]

Sun-Kissed Finch

My dog, Charlie, and I were sitting outside watching for birds. I was drinking coffee and had a camera on my lap, as usual. I was using Merlin Sound ID, to find out what birds were around. There were all kinds of tanagers and warblers around that I'll like to get a picture of, but it's kind of like having a fish finder, you know they are there but capturing them is a whole different thing. But here is a pretty good photo of a female house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), it looks like she just had her hair done.

I don't post all of the photos that I post here to my Pixels gallery, but I post the photos I like best. Some don't make the cut. I most likely will post this one to the gallery. usually wait a couple of days to see how I feel about it then.

You can check out my gallery at: swede1952-photographs.pixels.com

[kvetchlandia]

John Cohen     Painter Lois Dodd Standing in the Window of the Tanager Gallery, 10th St, New York City     1959

[lawrencefineart]

Fred Mitchell, “To Be Alive,” 1962. Mitchell was an integral part of the Downtown scene in the 50s and 60s. His work appeared in the seminal Guggenheim Museum exhibition “Younger American Painters” in 1954. This was the first museum show to treat the subject of abstraction and effectively launched his career to a new level. Mitchell was also one of the founders of the Tanager Gallery, the first artist-run collective gallery, along with Lois Dodds, and including such others as Alex Katz, Tom Wesselmann, Philip Pearlstein, Mary Abbott and others. #fredmitchell #alexkatz #philippearlstein #modernart #artadvisory #tanagergallery #newyorkschoolartists #paintingoftheday #abstractexpressionism #abstractart https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn56D1eNfp0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[asprinterandamarathon]

BOTR - Day 3 - June 17, 2024

From our vantage point (no boat, no desire to swim in a lake) our campgrounds didn’t have a lot to offer so we got up early, showered, ate breakfast, and headed out for the day.

We took secondary roads for the first 50 miles of so, passing through busy small towns like Sesser ($3.49 for gas but homemade cookies at the gas station), Pinckneyville (county seat), and Marissa. Years ago (2000-ish) we had done a cross-country trip with the kids and a lot of the small towns were dead for a number of reasons. On the positive side, the small farming towns we drove through today were thriving.

A little whimsy along the way.

Our campgrounds were at Arrow Rock Historic Site, in Arrow Rock, MO. We first pulled into our camp for the night and saw that it was nearly empty! Mondays are a great day to check in to any campgrounds. Knowing that there was an historic town (actually on the national historic register) associated with the campground, we continued through the park to find downtown.

The Santa Fe trail originated from here when a settler made the first successful westward crossing from this point in the early 1800s. The town built up to support the pioneers. Several of the original buildings have survived and have been preserved to tell the story. Unfortunately, history shuts down on Mondays so none of the shops, museums, or galleries were open.

View of Main St, Arrow Rock.

We did see a gent just strolling through the streets. He had a ukulele in a case on his back. When we asked if he was a local, he said he was from Chicago but knew the town well. He was one of the performers at the local playhouse. They had just wrapped up a run of 42nd St. (one of 6 shows this year). Actors from all over (including one from Chapel Hill) come to Arrow Rock to perform in their theater.

We walked the town and of course the oldest building was originally a pub. Other preserved buildings included a jail, courthouse, girls boarding school, Masonic Lodge, and more. If only we could have toured them.

To fill our time, we drove over to Marshall, 20 minutes away, for groceries and to check out the town. Again, it was a farming town with huge grain elevators and farm equipment sales lots. The downtown square had a variety of stores and farm financing businesses. In general, it seemed to be thriving although no restaurants were open (on Monday).

Marshall with a facade problem…

Back at camp, it was steak and salad for dinner! Diane hunted down a few birds including Summer Tanagers, Northern Parula, Indigo Buntings, and a good look at a Dickcissel singing! Then early to bed and a good night’s sleep!

Fantastic. Done to perfection!

Cheep, cheep!

[pixnflixnwrites]

Alex Katz  Blue Umbrella 2, 1972

Ada was working as a research biologist at Sloan Kettering in the fall of 1957. She had recently returned from studying tumor genetics in Milan on a Fulbright when she walked into the Tanager Gallery for the opening night of an art exhibit. Alex Katz’s art was on the walls. The two met. She still maintains she was shy about visiting galleries. He’s adamant she was already a legend in the New York City art-world.

The two were married in February of 1958. Katz has now painted his wife and muse more than 200 times.  Vertu Fine Art

[dailyoverview]

Today, Lindblad Expeditions presents an Overview of Playa Zapotal—a remote and unspoiled beach on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. The beach offers visitors incredible adventure with dives to offshore submarine rocks, swarmed by multi-colored tropical fish. The nearby gallery forest is also home to hundreds of birds such as flit tanagers, euphonias, and parrots who reside in the canopy and soar above the treetops.

To learn more or see how you can explore the Guanacaste region yourself, check out Lindblad Expeditions at expeditions.com.

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Source imagery: Maxar

[mybeingthere]

For over fifty years Lois Dodd (American, b. 1927) has painted her immediate everyday surroundings at the places she has chosen to live and work – the Lower East Side, rural Mid-Coast Maine and the Delaware Water Gap. Dodd’s small, intimately-scaled paintings are almost always completed in one plein-air sitting. Her subjects include rambling New England out buildings, lush summer gardens, dried leafless plants, nocturnal moonlit skies and views through interior windows. She often returns to familiar motifs repeatedly at different times of the year with dramatically varied results.

The critic Roberta Smith wrote in March 2013: “Ms. Dodd loves the observed world, the vagaries of nature and the specificities of old Maine houses: the way they cleave to the ground, or fill a picture frame, or shine, lights on or off, in the moonlight. She always searches out the underlying geometry but also the underlying life, and the sheer strangeness of it all.”

Lois Dodd studied at the Cooper Union in the late 1940s. In 1952 she was one of the five founding members of the legendary Tanager Gallery, among the first artist-run cooperative galleries in New York. Dodd is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy. In 1992 she retired from teaching at Brooklyn College. Since 1954 her work has been the subject of over fifty one-person exhibitions. In 2012, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art organized a retrospective of Dodd’s work which traveled to the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. In 2017 she was the subject of a monograph published by Lund Humphries with text by Faye Hirsch.

https://www.alexandregallery.com/lois-dodd

[beautifulklicks]

jeffreypatrickkarnes

This is a Golden-hooded Tanager that I got a shot of on my Costa Rica trip with Supreet and Abinash

we truly had an unforgettable time. Check out their galleries and see more of these amazing birds.

Live life with passion,

see the beauty in all things

and share it with the world.

[saladban]

"Recently rediscovered tanager. Males are black and white with a whitish-gray bill and small white wing patch. Females are uniformly olive-brown with a darker bill. Found in seasonally flooded forests along rivers and in gallery forest, but always near water. Forages at lower levels but also perches in the tops of trees. Feeds on seeds but also has been reported flycatching."

-eBird

Conservation Status: EN

[2662/11080] Cone-billed tanager - Conothraupis mesoleuca

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Emberizoidea Family: Thraupidae (tanagers)

Photo credit: Jean-Louis Carlo via Macaulay Library

[berrycampbell]

Charlotte Park’s (1918–2010) important contribution to the Abstract Expressionist movement during its early years has recently been acknowledged. Park initially worked in a monochrome palette, which liberated her to focus on form. In the 1950s, Park exhibited her work broadly, showing at the Stable Gallery and participating in annuals at the Whitney Museum of American art. Her first solo show was at Tanager Gallery in 1957. Charlotte Park is exclusively represented by Berry Campbell Gallery. #charllottepark #abstractpainting #abstractexpressionism #womenartists #abex #hamptons #springs #1950s #blackandwhite #stablegallery #tanager #berrycampbell #gallery #nyc #chelsea #modern #contemporary #art #summerselections #groupexhibition (at Berry Campbell)

[swede1952]

Bright Yellow Bird in the Wild

Here is a photo of a female scarlet tanager (Piranga olivacea). Unfortunately, the chance that I have of seeing one of these around here is during migration. These birds are members of the family Cardinalidae and are closely related to cadinals, buntings, and grosbeaks.

I don't post all of the photos that I post here to my Pixels gallery, but I post the photos I like best. Some don't make the cut. I usually wait a couple of days and see how I feel about it then.

You can check out my gallery at:

[kvetchlandia]

Saul Leiter     Tanager Gallery Stairs, 10th St, East Village, New York City     1954

[lawrencefineart]

Fred Mitchell, Untitled, c. 1956-1958. Fred Mitchell was an integral part of the Downtown Scene in NYC for n the 50s and 60s. Along with artists James Rosenquist, Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana and a few others, he found loft and living space on Coenties Slip in downtown Manhattan with its views of the water and sunny light. His work appeared in the seminal Guggenheim Exhibition “Younger American Painters” in 1954. This was the first Museum show to treat the subject of abstraction and effectively propelled Mitchell’s career to a new level. Finally, Mitchell was one of the founders of the Tanager Gallery, the first artist run collective gallery, along with Lois Dodds, Angelo Ippolito, Tom Wesselman, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein and others. #fredmitchell #modernart #interiordesign #artadvisory @guggenheim #tanagergallery #coentiesslip #abstractexpressionism #abstractart #alexkatz #loisdodd #paintingoftheday #agnesmartin #ellsworthkelky #youngartist https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqd96SGge_i/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[blakegopnik]

GEORGE ORTMAN’S ABSTRACTION AND A MOMENT OF GAY REVELATION

THE DAILY PIC: This is George Ortman’s “Stages of Life,” a relief-cum-construction that he created in 1956. It is now in his posthumous survey show at Mitchell Algus Gallery, one of several spaces cautiously reopening on New York’s Lower East Side. The piece dates to around the same time as an incident that transpired one day when Ortman was taking his turn sitting the gallery at the Tanager co-op space in Greenwich Village. As Ortman told me the story not long before his death in 2015, a strange little fellow in a blond toupee came in and asked if the gallery would show his pictures of gorgeous young men embracing;  Ortman scared Warhol off by telling him that the gallery mostly showed abstraction—objects like “Stages of Life.”

Donald Judd considered Ortman’s reliefs a precursor to his own Minimalist sculptures, and Judd included a photo of “Stages” in his famous “Specific Objects” essay. Looking at Ortman’s construction in the gallery, however, its peek-a-boo effect reminded me more strongly of the body parts that peek out of boxes in Jasper Johns’s “Target with Plaster Casts,” from 1955. Ortman’s piece seems to have an interest in revealing the concealed, and that maybe should have given him some sympathy for Warhol’s gay drawings.

For a full survey of past Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive.

[ucaliptus]

The NYU Grey Art Gallery’s current exhibition, “Inventing Downtown,” explores the cultural rising of artist-run galleries in NYC through selected works from artists in that movement. One artist, Louise Bourgeois, had work featured from the Tanager Gallery, from the “Leaving Midtown” thematic group.

Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in the early 1900s. She became drawn to art by her parents, who ran a tapestry restoration business. She moved to New York in 1938 after marrying Robert Goldwater. While her early work focused more on painting and printmaking, she turned to sculpture in the late 1940s. She also became very interested in psychoanalysis, which influenced the subject matter of her work. Her monumental spider sculptures are some of her best known works.

Also from the Tanager Gallery is artist Lois Dodd. She was the only woman founder of the gallery, but also had her work exhibited there. She was born in New Jersey in the late 20s, and was educated at Cooper Union. She is described as a “serious painter,” best known for her beautiful and contemplative landscapes and interiors around her New England homes. She paints “plein air,” meaning her paintings are done all outside, from observation; it is a difficult strategy due to the ever changing lighting and movement of the outdoors. Her work contrasted with the popular abstract expressionism of the time.

From the “City as Muse” grouping, we see work from Robert Rauschenberg, whose work was featured at the Reuben Gallery. This gallery was not under the co-op model. Though he was born in Texas, Robert lived and worked primarily in New York City and in Florida. He was a painter and graphic artist, whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. He often used non traditional materials and objects in his works, employed in innovative ways. His well known “Combines” are a sort of combination of painting and sculpture, and somewhat like a collage. He went on to receive several rewards for his artistry during his life.