Swann Galleries: Blues for Smoke at the Whitney

Blues for Smoke at the Whitney

 

 Romare Bearden, Homage to Louie and Duke, offset color lithograph, circa 1975.

 Beauford Delaney's Portrait of a Young Musician

 A new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art called Blues for Smoke presents a selection of work by American artists, inspired by the Blues. In response to the exhibition's sprawling theme, Holland Cotter of The New York Times writes:

 "Blues isn’t a thing; it’s a set of feelings, a state of mind, maybe a state of grace. In origin it’s African-American, developing with gospel and jazz, and folding into R&B, funk and hip-hop. But it has long since become a trans-ethnic phenomenon, bigger than music, an enveloping aesthetic that includes art."

Bob Thompson, Garden of Music, 1960, oil on canvas, 79 1/2 x 143 in. (201.93 x 363.22 cm), Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection; courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

 
Rachel Harrison, Untitled, 2012, colored pencil on paper, 22 3/8 x 27 7/8 x 1 1/2 in., 56.8 x 70.8 x 3.8 cm, courtesy the Artist and Greene Naftali, New York

 

                                                                                by Mark Morrisroe












Source:
 http://swanngalleriesinc.blogspot.ca/2013/02/blues-for-smoke-at-whitney.html




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Swann Galleries: Blues for Smoke at the Whitney