Essays

By Eamonn Smith, Administrator I recently traveled to New Hope, Pennsylvania for a weekend getaway from New York, a trip which was not entirely a departure from my life at the gallery. New Hope was a vital hub for a group of successful American painters in the early 20th century. The town’s proximity to both…

By David Wilner, Administrative Assistant  Questroyal Fine Art is continually developing our inventory of artworks. Though dedicated to the everlasting beauty of the Hudson River School, the inclusion of impressionist and modernist works helps to highlight some of the wonderful similarities and differences between the styles. With an impressive inventory including paintings by Charles Burchfield,…

Welcome to the Questroyal Fine Art weekly news recap! Here we will be sharing relevant articles about the art world each week. Please enjoy and check back weekly for the latest art news and events.   1. Georgia O’Keeffe’s former Santa Fe home hits the market for $15 Million Georgia O’Keeffe’s former Santa Fe home,…

A number of exciting recent acquisitions by Questroyal Fine Art, with works by Albert Bierstadt, Childe Hassam, Edward Moran, and more.

Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature explores the artist’s life-long fascination with the natural world. The catalogue accompanies an exhibition organized by the High Museum of Art and the Brandywine River Museum—the first major museum exhibition devoted to Stella’s nature-themed works. The book includes 137 plates filled with brightly colored flora, landscapes, and fruits, while the text…

By Alexandra Kiely of “A Scholarly Skater” A recent acquisition at Questroyal Fine Art, Winter at 57th St and 5th Avenue* is a classic example of Guy C. Wiggins’s beloved New York City snow scenes. With its impressionist snow flurries, colorful flags, and busy street, this painting presents the ideal image of a wintery Manhattan.…

By Nina Sangimino There will soon be held in New York an exhibition of paintings which will be of unusual interest, since it will recite, in terms of weird tonality, one of the saddest romances of American art — the story of a man whose genius and ambition enabled him to master his profession without…

By Louis M. Salerno There is a charming woman who visits the gallery several times a year; she says that she comes as a form of therapy. I watch as her expression brightens and her curiosity takes her far from her woes. She has never actually bought a painting and probably never will. Her relationship…

By Alison Kowalski Henry Martin Gasser was an American painter in every sense. From his working-class industrial town, he sought out the greatest artists in the area in order to study from them and found inspiration in his backyard. Through persistence and a spirit of originality, Gasser turned humble scenes of urban American life in…

By Chloe Heins This question resurfaces again and again, even though I have an answer in mind. It is hard to fully understand, yet it is simultaneously intrinsic, intuitive, and relatable. For most, the decision to buy art is emotional. If there is a universal truth, it is that people buy art because they enjoy…

By Nina Sangimino To view a painting by Eric Sloane of a quintessential New England covered bridge, with its weathered clapboard, worn dirt road, and Huck Finn–inspired children fishing in the brook below, one is touched by the familiarity of the scene. But what seems at first glance to be a simple version of Yankee…

Born on this day in 1882, Edward Hopper became America’s foremost modernist painter. As a poet of quotidian scenes, he is known as one of the twentieth century’s most admired realist painters, as well as one of the greatest American scene painters, whose works are still considered icons of modern art.