Questroyal Art Blog
Reopening Wednesday, July 8!
Questroyal Fine Art is pleased to join New York City in phase 2 of reopening after the COVID-19 lockdown. We are excited to welcome back gallery visitors! In order to adhere to the latest CDC guidelines we ask that you assist us in the following ways: ~ Please contact us before arriving at the gallery.…
A Word on Our Promotional Campaigns
We often get comments about our ads and questions about who does our copywriting. Lou is our genius! Here are some excerpts from a few of our favorite advertising campaigns: BE UNCOOL Ignore the latest trends. Defy current fashion. Time is the best critic. Seek art that is worthy of the ages, not the…
Artist Spotlight: Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847–1919)
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…
Take It Personally: Buying Art In Real Life
By Chloe Heins TLDR. I had to Google it. Too long; didn’t read. Clever, I thought, though social media acronyms make me cringe. My husband (clad in yellow shorts) had texted “TLDR” with a link to an article (from a respected literary journal, no less) about how mustard yellow is the new “millennial pink.” I…
Art Changes Everything
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…
Artist Spotlight: Henry Martin Gasser (1909–1981)
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…
Why Do People Buy Art?
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…
Artist Spotlight: Eric Sloane (1905–1985)
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…
The Hudson River School is Alive and Well—Rebutting Recent Headlines
Several recent articles discussing the Sotheby’s and Christie’s American art sales last month expressed concern about the Hudson River School market. As both a leading buyer and seller of these paintings, I believe that the results have been misinterpreted. The idea that anyone could definitively determine the state of any market by the performance of…
Hudson River School Paintings: A VITAL YET UNDERVALUED ART
Whenever liberty and equality, the defining principles of our nation, are challenged, Americans find that the work of the Hudson River School rekindles their resolve and optimism. The sense of awe we experience as we view the sublime and the beautiful rouses a dormant patriotism. At a moment when we are experiencing a widening ideological…
Born on this day: Edward Hopper
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.
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