Bert Gallery Studios – Online Auction
Monday October 2 6pm EST
Providence, RI 401-751-2628
www.bertgallerynow.com
info@bertgallery.com

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Bert Gallery, located along the Providence waterfront at Corliss Landing, 24 Bridge Street, announces the Bert Gallery Studio Sale: Historic, Modern & Highlights from the Providence School—– on Monday, October 2, at 6 pm ET at LiveAuctioneers. This sale increases the gallery outreach beyond 24 Bridge Street to a wider audience online with a dedicated artwork online auction.

The sale brings artworks to market for the collector or dealer who seeks accomplished artists with well-established exhibition and museum records. Each painting is well documented with extensive written descriptions for each entry, allowing buyers to discover many new names in American Art.

This auction features a special concentration of the Providence School artists from the Nineteenth Century over 15 lots. Providence boasts a deep cultural heritage very rare in a modestly sized American city. These deep artistic roots were established in 1878 with the foundation of a remarkable art school, the Rhode Island School of Design, and a strong independent art club, the Providence Art Club, in 1880, the third oldest continually operating art club in America, after the Philadelphia Sketch Club and New York’s Salmagundi Club. It was the first art club in the United States to admit women as members.

Works by the founding members of the Providence Art Club and early instructors at RISD include George Whitaker, S.R. Burleigh, Hugo Breul, W.S. Drown, F. Mathewson, Walter Francis Brown, W. Alden Brown and H.A. Dyer. There are works by the ever-popular Rockport Art Association artist Antonio Cirino with a trademark harbor scene and the popular figurative theatrical figures by James D. Herbert. There are a few American and European artists of note, including Cheney, Courtois, Didier-Pouget & Leslie.

The Modernist section of the auction has several works from the Walter Feldman Trust for Artwork Brown University. Feldman was Yale trained under J. Albers and DeKooning, coming to Providence in 1952. There are two women printmakers, such as RISD instructor Eliza Gardiner and the Bauhaus emigree Margarete Bittkow-Koehler, who shared a lifetime art friendship with the Albers, Feiningers and Klees, all forced to flee their German homeland to America in the 1930s.

All of the bidding and purchasing for the auction takes place online through the LiveAuctioneers platform. For more information, www.bertgallerynow.com or 401-751-2628.