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.

Conner • Rosenrkanz is proud to be a lender to A New American Sculpture, 1914-1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach at the Portland Museum of Art.

Conner • Rosenkranz and thirteen colleagues who specialize in American art invite you to attend our twice-yearly open house of private galleries, Just Off Madison. This event offers collectors the opportunity to visit galleries displaying choice works of art in intimate settings. Our next event will be held in teh fall of 2017. Please contact the gallery for details.

Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, Florida, January 12 – June 25, 2017

Conner • Rosenkranz is proud to represent Todd McGrain in his tribute to extinct American species, The Lost Bird Project. "Dramatically presented on the main lawn of the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens from January to June, 2017, this exhibition is reflective of Ann Norton’s personal mission to preserve green space for native and migrating birds.  The exhibition spotlights the loss of bird species due to environmental changes and includes five bronze sculptures of extinct North American birds. Renowned artist Todd McGrain will personally curate his art, including framed drawings of the sculptures, photos and an educational narrative about each bird with supporting photos."

Our latest catalog of works in inventory is now available. Twenty eight objects are highlighted including works by Henry Kirke Brown, Jo Davidson, William Hunt Diederich, John Flannagan, Sidney Gordin, Cecil Howard, Paul Manship, Hiram Powers, John Rogers, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Samuel Yellin, and others.

For information on featured works or to order a catalog please contact the gallery.

Conner • Rosenkranz is proud to have assisted in the exhibition Goddess, Heroine, Beast: Anna Hyatt Huntington's New York Sculpture, 1902–1936

Organized by Anne Higonnet, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University, in collaboration with Kitty Dare and a class of nineteen PhD, MA, and BA students from both Barnard and Columbia (Morgan Albahary, Caitlin Beach, Margot Bernstein, Yoon Jin Cha, Sonia Coman, Celia Durkin, Kofoworola Eke, Lidia Ferrara, Daria Foner, Lisa Heller, Victoria Jones, Katherine Lauricella, Sarah Lipman, Daniel Ralston, Lauren Robbins, Mary Lib Schmidt, Ben Swetland, Zoe Flood Tardino, Ellen Watkins, and Julia Wolkoff), in collaboration with The Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University. In conjunction with the exhibition the gallery is publishing a fully illustrated 48-page catalogue and an indepth website.

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.