Lundeberg exhibition at Art Basel Miami Beach

With support form the Feitelson/Lundeberg Art Foundation, Louis Stern Fine Arts is exhibiting at Art Basel Miami Beach 2019:

Louis Stern Fine Arts is exhibiting at Art Basel Miami Beach
December 4-8, 2019

Booth S07

A suite of seven paintings from the 1960s highlights Helen Lundeberg’s exploration of hard-edge abstracted space, from rolling landscapes to cavernous interiors. With geometric sensitivity, Lundeberg’s blocks of color come to logical convergences while rounded lines resonate cutting depths. Stretched angles form undulating landscapes that expand outward toward open space, while yawning portals render deep interiors. Internal chambers, as in Arcanum I, 1967, elicit bare and echoing cathedrals as narrow arched views segment the lofty columns they house. In Untitled, 1964, mapped with poetic breath, swaths of valley green and river blue divide structural negative space.

In 1934 Southern California, with partner and fellow artist Lorser Feitelson, Lundeberg founded the "Subjective Classicism” movement, which later became known as Post Surrealism. In breaking with European Surrealism, Lundeberg and Feitelson affirmed conscious, rather than unconscious, sources of imagery by pairing the rationale of neoclassicism with a curiosity for the metaphysical. This new approach to painting guided the viewer through a composition’s deep space with a theatrical intensity, rousing strange encounters with everyday scenes.

images © The Feitelson / Lundeberg Art Foundation

Work Acquired: UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum

Betsy Andersen, Executive Director of Museo Eduardo Carrillo made an outstanding gift to our foundation.

Ms. Andersen also represents artist Kathryn Metz as Cultural Executor of the Kathryn Metz Trust. Lundeberg's Enigma lithograph of 1937 was in Ms. Metz's collection. We are fortunate and grateful that this important WPA era lithograph was gifted to our foundation collection. The print was originally in the collection of Esther McCoy Toby and is inscribed by Lundeberg: "To Esther and Berkeley Toby".

Thanks are also due to the team at Louis Stern Fine Arts for locating the finest possible permanent collection for the Enigma lithograph: the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum.

Work Acquired: Laguna Art Museum

Bathers was acquired for the museum’s exhibition, Centennial Gifts: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, March 3 – May 27, 2019

Laguna Art Museum collects, cares for, and exhibits works of art that were created by California artists or represent the life and history of the state. Unlike any other museum in the state, it collects California art and only California art, and ranges across all periods and styles, nineteenth-century to present-day.

Laguna Art Museum grows and strengthens its permanent collection largely through donations from collectors, artists, and foundations. Since the beginning of 2018 it has received some outstanding donations of works of art in recognition of the centenary of its founding organization, the Laguna Beach Art Association. On show in the museum for the first time, the Centennial Gifts include paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and original prints by acclaimed California artists of the past and the present. The exhibition also includes some promised gifts pledged to the collection during the past year, and two museum purchases. The featured artists include Lita Albuquerque, Tony DeLap, Lorser Feitelson, Joseph Goldyne, Emil Kosa, David Ligare, Dan McCleary, R. Kenton Nelson, Edgar Payne, Ruth Peabody, Agnes Pelton, Charles Rollo Peters, and David Simpson. The exhibition is a celebration of the museum’s growth as it moves beyond the centennial year and an expression of gratitude toward the donors who, through their gifts, have contributed so richly to Laguna Beach’s artistic legacy.

https://lagunaartmuseum.org/

JULY 5 – SEPTEMBER 8, 2018 – 1960s California Hard-Edge - Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg at the Flowers Gallery in London

PAST EVENT

Lorser Feitelson, Untitled, Magical Space Forms, 1960

Flowers Gallery in London will present works by Californian artists Lorser Feitelson, Karl Benjamin, and Helen Lundeberg, amongst the most influential artists in Southern California during the 1960s.

Please visit Flowers Gallery for more information.

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April 24 and May 25, 2018 – Cristin Tierney Gallery Presents Feitelson

PAST EVENT

Lorser Feitelson, Untitled (July), 1968. acrylic on canvas. 60 x 54 inches (152.4 x 137.2 cm). © The Feitelson/Lundeberg Art Foundation.

Lorser Feitelson: Curvilear will be presented by Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York between April 24 and May 25, 2018.

For more information please visit the gallery.

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May 2–6, 2018 – Cristin Tierney Features Lundeberg at Frieze New York

PAST EVENT

Helen Lundeberg, Wild Planet, 1965. acrylic on canvas. 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm). © The Feitelson/Lundeberg Art Foundation.

This year Crisitin Tierney Gallery will present six of Helen Lundeberg's paintings at its Frieze New York, Booth #SP24, May 2-6, 2018.

For more information please visit the gallery. 

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April 11, 2018 – Dr. Ilene Susan Fort Talk at Rutgers

Past Event

Helen Lundeberg, One and One Half, 1974, acrylic on canvas, 8 x 15 in./ 20.3 x 38.1 cm, Wendy Van Haerlem Collection, 1979

Dr. Ilene Susan Fort, formerly Senior Curator of American Art, and The Gail and John Liebes Curator of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), is now Curator Emerita at LACMA and Senior Scholar at the Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities at Rutgers University, 2018 - 2019. Dr. Fort will be giving an illustrated talk on Lundeberg at Rutgers on APRIL 11, 2018.

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Through April 21, 2018 – LORSER FEITELSON: FIGURE TO FORM at Louis Stern Fine Arts

PAST EVENT

Courtesy of Louis Stern Fine Arts

FEBRUARY 24, 2018 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Louis Stern Fine Arts presents its new exhibition Lorser Feitelson: Figure to Form which showcases paintings from several periods of Feitelson’s work accompanied by preparatory and idea sketches related to the paintings.  The show opened on FEBRUARY 24 and runs through APRIL 21, 2018.

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FEBRUARY 21-24, 2018 – College Art Association Conference

PAST EVENT

Helen Lundeberg, Night Flying In, 1984–1985

FEBRUARY 21–24, 2018 The annual College Art Association conference was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center.  The Foundation and Louis Stern Fine Arts made its publications available for viewing and sale at Booth 430 of the Book and Trade Fair attached to the convention.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018 – Lauren A. Ross at the CAA Conference

PAST EVENT

Helen Lundeberg, The Isle, 1934

FEBRUARY 23, 2018 10:30 a.m. – Noon.  Lauren A. Ross presented a paper entitled The Helen Lundeberg Catalogue Raisonne: Painting the ‘Mysterious Life of Commonplace Things” at the CAA Convention sponsored by CRSA. 

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FEBRUARY 24, 2018 – Jale Nejdet Erzen, Ph.D. Talk

PAST EVENT

Lorser Feitelson, Magical Space Forms, 1951, 50 x 74 inches, 127 x 188 centimeters. © Feitelson/Lundeberg Art Foundation

FEBRUARY 24, 2018 5:00 p.m.  The Foundation and Louis Stern Fine Arts hosted a special event at Louis Stern Fine Arts, 9002 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, California 90069.  Jale Nejdet Erzen, Ph.D.  spoke on Feitelson’s work and personal memories from her long association with Feitelson.  

Refreshments were provided at this free event. A recording of Dr. Erzen's talk is available on Facebook through the Louis Stern Fine Arts website. 

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JANUARY 24, 2018 – WSAEF Annual Meeting

PAST EVENT

Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg

JANUARY 24, 2018.  The Western States Artist-Endowed Foundations (WSAEF) hosted its annual meeting at the Collections Center of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Wendy Van Haerlem represented the Foundation at the meeting which began with a fascinating tour of the Collections Center and proceeded to a full day of discussion.

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Acquisitions

OF NOTE

Helen Lundeberg and Lorser Feitelson

The Phillips Collection, New York acquired Untitled, 1972 by Lorser Feitelson and Untitled, 1961 by Helen Lundeberg.

Lundeberg’s Blue Mountains, 1967 was acquired by The Figge Museum, Davenport, Iowa.

The Foundation re-aquired Grey Interior II, 1979 by Lundeberg

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