It has been quite awhile since our last post, but we could not wait to post this review on two museums in New York City we were able to visit this past week.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is one of the most stunning museum’s with an incredible collection. A special exhibition that is a must see is Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors, which is showing through April 19. This is the first exhibition of its kind to focus primarily on his radiant late interiors and still life drawings, paintings and watercolors.

A piece that cannot be missed is “Table in Front of Window.” The painting, set in the south of France really expresses who Bonnard was as a person and artist. You really get a sense of how Bonnard must have felt sitting in the sunlight looking out onto the sea by his extraordinary use of color and feeling. This exhibition is highly recommended, but be sure to spend a day at the MET, the vast space has hidden treasures in every corner.

Luckily I was able to see the Alexander Calder exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City on Valentines Day… it closed the next day. It was a wonderful and whimsical show of his work during The Paris Years, 1926-1933. In these seven years, Calder’s fluid, animating drawn line transformed from two dimensions to three, from ink and paint to wire. His radical innovations included openform wire caricature portraits, a bestiary of wire animals, his beloved and critically important miniature Circus, abstract and figurative sculptures, and his paradigm-shifting “mobiles.”His work continued to evolve throughout his career.

DeVorzon Gallery fortunately still has a few of Calder’s works from the 1960s and ’70s. These original, signed, limited edition lithographs are wonderful pieces by a great master. The prints which can be seen on our website feature some of his famous symbols: birds, circles, dots and dashes, while still sticking to another common theme throughout his work, primary colors.

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