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Todd McGrain's LOST BIRDS series
May 1, 2025
Conner-Rosenkranz is pleased to announce that Todd McGrain's LOST BIRDS series will be on view at the Berkshire Botanical Gardens in Stockbridge, Massachusetts from May 1, 2025 until September 1, 2025. 
 
In addition to the large scale versions of each model -- Carolina Parakeet, Heath Hen, Passenger Pigeon, Great Auk and Labrador Duck --  medium and smaller versions of each sculpture will be on view as well as related works on paper.
Todd McGrain's LOST BIRDS series

Modigliani and the Modern Portrait
July 22 – November 5, 2023

Conner-Rosenkranz is lending the Jo Davidson portrait of Gertrude Stein (1923) to the exhibition, curated by Dr. Kenneth Wayne, at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, New York.

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Modigliani and the Modern Portrait


Emma and the Angel of Central Park: The Story of a New York Icon and the Woman Who Created It
Jul 1st, 2023
Following the Italian publication of Emma and the Angel of Central Park in 2022, author Maria Teresa Cometto has published (Spring 2023) the English version, which tells the story of the commission of the iconic Central Park fountain, Angel of the Waters, by Emma Stebbins and the larger story of her life, career and community in Rome.
 
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The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection, Sotheby's
April 19 – April 21, 2023

Joel Rosenkranz’s essay on the collection of 19th and early 20th century American sculpture in The Wolf Family Collection was published in Sotheby’s catalog, The Spirit of America.

Joel Rosenkranz participated in a panel discussion, “A Look Inside the Wolf Family Collection”  held at Sotheby’s on April 15, 2023.

 

 

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The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection,...


Women's Work
May 26 - September 26, 2022
This groundbreaking exhibition tracks the deep, pervasive, and continuing influence of the historic female domestic craft tradition in the practice of contemporary women artists and invites new investigations into the position of women in the contemporary art world. These historic and contemporary works by women artists will be on view this summer.

Women's Work Exhibition
Lyndhurst
Tarrytown, New York

 

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Women's Work


Women of Waveny
November 12-2021 – March 31, 2022

Conner-Rosenkranz is pleased to loan the oil portrait of Abastenia St Leger Eberle (1921)  by  Stephen Haweis to the exhibition, “Women of Waveny: Artists, Patrons and the Lapham Legacy,” at the New Canaan Museum and Historical Society, CT, November 12, 2021 – March 31, 2022.

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Women of Waveny


The American Art Fair
October 9 - 19, 2020

Celebrating their 13th year, The American Art Fair, now the only fair that focuses on 19th and 20th century American art, will be held exclusively online. Launching October 9th and running through October 19th each of the 24 distinguished galleries will feature two objects which have previously not been available on the market. Set apart from other recent online fairs, this opportunity will offer American art connoisseurs an opportunity akin to an exclusive preview.

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The American Art Fair

American Art: Collecting and Connoisseurship
Fall 2020

New from Merrell Publishers, American Art: Collecting and Connoisseurship will appeal to the serious collector and connoisseur of American art of the 19th and 20th centuries. All twenty-eight chapters offer thought-provoking examinations of a wide variety of topics, each written by an acknowledged expert in their field.

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American Art: Collecting and Connoisseurship

The Art of Display: The American Pedestal, 1830-1910
Fall 2018

"Despite their prevalence in historic interiors, museum collections and period paintings and photographs, pedestals remain under‐studied as objects in themselves and as part of the history of the nineteenth‐century interior. If nothing else, the attention that American artists lavished on having precisely the right pedestal made for their sculptures should have marked the pedestal out as a rich area of inquiry..."

With an essay by Ruthie Dibble and Avis Berman, Conner • Rosenkranz' seventh catalog examines the role of the pedestal in the nineteenth‐century American home.

The Art of Display: The American Pedestal, 1830-19...

Lost Bird Project
Apr 1st, 2018

Conner • Rosenkranz is proud to represent Todd McGrain in his tribute to extinct American species. The Lost Bird Project recognizes the tragedy of modern extinction by immortalizing North American birds, which have been driven to extinction, including the Passenger Pigeon, the Carolina Parakeet, the Labrador Duck, the Great Auk, and the Heath Hen. Each memorial has been permanently placed at the specific location directly related to the particular bird’s decline.

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Lost Bird Project

Elizabeth Catlett Residence Hall, University of Iowa
Aug 3rd, 2017

Elizabeth Catlett’s education began at Howard University, Washington D.C., where she studied painting and design with distinguished African-American educators James Porter (1905 – 1970) and Lois Mailou Jones (1905 – 1998). Graduating with honors in 1937, at the age of 22, she moved to Durham, North Carolina to teach art in the public school system. However she quickly became discouraged by the pay discrepancy between black and white teachers, and after organizing an unsuccessful campaign to reconcile the discriminatory pay gap, she left North Carolina. This episode marked the beginning of her activist approach toward social issues.

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Four Freedoms Park featuring Jo Davidson's Bust of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Opened fall 2012

Jo Davidson (1883–1952) was America’s most successful and admired portrait sculptor from the 1910s to the 1940s. One his most important works is the lifesize portrait head of Franklin Delano Roosevelt he modeled at The White House in 1933–34, soon after the President began his first term in office. A monumental version of that portrait was recently installed in Louis Kahn’s brilliantly designed Four Freedoms Park on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island in New York City.

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Four Freedoms Park featuring Jo Davidson's Bust of...