Spaightwood Galleries, Inc.

10/04/2019

God sent Elijah to tell Ahab and his people to repent and warned that if they did not repent, God would send a famine. Ahab’s wife Jezebel did not believe in God and killed God’s prophets. God told Elijah to hide from Jezebel by a stream of water. He drank from the stream and God sent birds to bring him food. When the famine came there was no water in the stream. God told Elijah to go to a city where he would meet a woman who would give him food and water. Elijah asked her for some water and bread, but she had only a little flour and oil to make bread for her son. Elijah told her to make some bread for him first. He said God would give her more flour and oil. The woman’s son became very sick and died. Elijah asked God to let the boy live again and the boy came back to life. Elijah took him to his mother, who saw that Elijah was a prophet of God (1 Kings 17-18).

08/26/2019

New interview with Jonna Rae Brinkman here (near the end of the linked video) See more of her work on our site at http://www.spaightwoodgalleries.com/Pages/Brinkman.html

March 18, 2019 Inspire Your World ANNEW Uncategorized ANNEW, Art, News, NorthEastWisconsin Art News of NorthEast Wisconsin

04/13/2019

Our show of about 200 original etchings, engravings, and lithographs by Joan Miró, one of the most important artists of the 20th-century, is coming to a close. In 2 more weeks, we will take down the Mirós—ranging from his first 4 original lithographs in 1929 to his last woodcuts (both color and black-and-white) in 1981. In between, Miró not only worked on paintings, drawings, and sculptures, but also he produced a large body of etchings, engravings, and lithographs which can be seen at Spaightwood for the next two weeks, after which the Miró's will go back in their storage boxes, and, jumping back to the late 15th and the early 16th-centuries, we will present works by Albrecht Dürer, MarcAntonio Raymondi, Hans Sebald Beham, and Lucas van Leyden. Dürer, of course, has been recognized since the Renaissance and continuously since then. There is no entrance fee and the works can be admired or they can be purchased for delivery at the end of the show. Spaightwood Galleries has been selling art world wide for about 44 years, first in Madison WI and since 2004 in Upton MA. We have an inventory of over 9000 works, all of which are available for purchase.

01/10/2019

Our current show features over 200 works by Joan Miró, my favorite 20th-century artist (my next favorite artist is Albrecht Dürer, whose works we will be featuring starting in March).

The show begins with Miró's first four original lithographs from 1929 (numbers 2-5 in the catalogue raisonné) and ends with a group of 7 lithographs–most from from 1981–which may be his last works. In between, we present about 200 Miró lithographs, etchings, aquatints, pochoirs (hand-colored stencil prints), and what is apparently his only linocut. Some are signed and numbered, some unsigned; some feature color, others are in black and white only. Among the featured works in our show are variants from a set entitled "Sans le soleil" (The full text is "Without the sun, despite the other stars, it would be night"), executed in an edition of 25 and published in 1965. The work was apparently based upon a text by the pre-Socratic philosopher Héraclite d'Ephèse. The catalogue raisonné calls for a title-page showing suns and stars and ends with a full-page color view of the heavens. Miró, however, went further: in addition to the color pieces, he also made a set of uncolored pieces, each of which he signed. We also have two images (identified only as "iii" and "iiiii") that feature Miró's signature over most of the sheet and are priced at $5000 (I strongly suspect that these may be unique pieces). The signed black and white images from "Sans le soleil" are priced at $9500; the unsigned color pieces are priced at $5750.

The opening panel in the show contains Miró’s first original lithographs. Miró's first four lithographs date from 1929 entitled "L'Arbre de voyageurs." The first in the set is signed by Miró in blue ink and annotated "Bon á tirer" / "Mai 1929"; the last in the set is annotated "Miró 3-29." These works share the panel with a large (436x650mm) later work, "The flight of the Alosa," executed in 1973 (the regular edition was printed in color; our impression is one of 20 from the black state as reworked by Miró after the edition was printed).

The next panel contains 10 works: a group of 4 pochoirs from 1934 (D. 13-D. 15 plus D. 17 (created in 1937), and "Femme pour 'XXe Siecle' " (a linocut from 1938), D. 49-D. 50 (pochoirs from 1947), D. 105 (published in 1956 but executed in 1938), and "Femme et oiseau dans la nuit" and "Femme et oiseau dans la lune" (both pochoirs from 1947).

The third panel contains 10 etchings from "L'Antitete" (1947), 4 of these have been hand-painted by Miró, 5 are in black, and one is annotated "epreuve d'artiste" and signed by Miró.

01/01/2019

Our current show features over 200 works by Joan Miró, my favorite 20th-century artist (my next favorite artist is Albrecht Dürer, whose works we will be featuring starting in March). The show begins with Miró's first four original lithographs from 1929 (numbers 1-4 in the catalogue raisonné) and ends with a group of 7 lithographs from 1981, which may be his last works. In between, we present about 200 Miró lithographs, etchings, aquatints, pochoirs (stencil prints), and what is apparently his only linocut. Some are signed and numbered, some unsigned; some feature color, others are in black and white only. Among the featured works in our show are variants from a set entitled "Sans le soleil" (The full text is "Without the sun, despite the other stars, it would be night"), executed in an edition of 25 and published in 1965. The work was apparently based upon a text by the pre-Socratic philosopher Héraclite d'Ephèse. The catalogue raisonné calls for a title-page showing suns and stars and ends with a full-page color view of the heavens. MIró, however went further: in addition to the color pieces, he also made a set of uncolored pieces, each of which he signed. We also have two images (identified only as "iii" and "iiiii") that feature Miró's signature over most of the sheet and are priced at $5000 (I strongly suspect that these may be unique pieces). The signed black and white images from "Sans le soleil" are priced at $9500; the unsigned color pieces are priced at $5750.

12/15/2018

Our current show of works by Joan Miró, featuring over 200 works that range from 1929 to 1979, will on display until mid-March; another 300+ works by Miró are in their boxes and available for viewing. Works by Picasso, Chagall, Tapies, and contemporaries are always available for viewing.

12/15/2018

We just finished hanging our new show, featuring 200 lithographs, etchings, aquatints, linocuts, and pochoirs devoted to the works of Joan MIró. Included in the show are Miró's lithographs number 2-5 (number 2 is a signed artist proof from 1929) as well as works from the 1930s to the late 1970s. As always, we are available on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sundays from noon to 5 p.m., and week days by arrangement. You can reach us by email ([email protected]) or telephone (locally: 508-529-2511 or out of state: 800-809-3343). In addition to the works in the show, we have over 9000 works ranging from the late 15th century to the present and we are always happy to show them to visitors.

11/24/2018

Now that you've survived Black Friday, come in to Spaightwood Galleries for Small Business Saturday (or Sunday, we'll still be here!) and take 20% off your total purchase!

08/11/2018

"Käthe Kolwitz and German Expressionist Prints" is nearing to its end at the end of August; coming soon: Chagall's "Dead Souls" and works by Pierre Alechinsky, COBRA, Leonore Fini, and Yves Tanguy (among others).