Galleries - August 2010

45. GALLERIES AUGUST 10 h OSBORNE SAMUEL 23a Bruton Street, W1J 6QG Summer Exhibition 2010. Jul 26–Sep 4. Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat 10–2 info@osbornesamuel.com www.osbornesamuel.com t 020 7493 7939 f 020 7493 7798 i PANTER & HALL 9 Shepherd Market, Mayfair, W1J 9PF Throughout the month of August: ‘Summer Show’ featuring a selection of recent work by Willie Rodger RSA RGI. enquiries@panterandhall.com www.panterandhall.com t 020 7399 9999 f 020 7499 4449 j PYMS GALLERY 9 Mount Street, W1K 3NG Fine Art Dealers. British, Irish, French Paintings. Advice and verbal valuations given free. Mon–Fri 9.30–5.30, Sat by appt paintings@pymsgallery.com www.pymsgallery.com t 020 7629 2020 f 020 7629 2060 k SARAH MYERSCOUGH FINE ART 15–16 Brooks Mews, off Davies Street, W1K 4DS Contemporary Art Gallery and Consultancy. Barry Cawston: Japan, Cuba and Beyond. Aug 5–28. Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat 12–3 tube Bond Street info@sarahmyerscough.com www.sarahmyerscough.com t 020 7495 0069 l SEVEN UP 54The Gallery, Shepherd Market, W1J 7QX 7 Hampshire artists show their recent paintings and prints. Aug 23–29. *ad Mon 1–8: meet the artist, Tue–Sat 11–7, Sun 11–3 wep1@supanet.com m SOTHEBY’S (Bond Street) 34–35 New Bond Street, W1Y 9HD Auctions held daily. Islamic, Oriental and European works of art, paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints, books, manuscripts, furniture, silver, musical instruments, photographs, icons, tribal art. Free advice and valuations given on the premises. Mon–Fri 9–4.30 t 020 7293 5000 l THE UNMAPPED EDGE 54The Gallery, Shepherd Market, W1J 7QX New paintings by Adrian Eckersley, Rob Lovell and Alison Chaplin. Aug 30–Sep 5. *ad Open 11–8 t 07812 174535 Bryony Chaplin a WHITFIELD FINE ART 23 Dering Street, W1S 1AW Gallery open by appointment only in August. www.whitfieldfineart.com t 020 7355 0040 f 020 7409 1531 FAMILY BUSINESS Whereas many early 20th C. US artists were imbued with the lessons of the latest European art, the Wyeth dynasty of artists always remained staunchly embedded in their profoundly American roots, as the current show at Dulwich Picture Gallery (to 22 August) makes touchingly clear. Drawn from the holdings of the Bank of America, this traces the careers of three generations of the family (5artists in all). Andrew is certainly the most familiar to an English audience – Christina’s World – but perhaps the more interesting (because less-well known) parts of the show lie in the work of his father, N.C. Wyeth, a celebrated illustrator who turned to painting later in life, and Andrew’s sister, Henriette, a much above average portraitist. N.C. well understood the perils of illustration for a proper painter, his best paintings, of Maine fishermen and landscapes, heroic and poignant at the same time. NU ALŸS ON LIFE Francis Alÿs embraces the futile: his exhibition at Tate Modern (until 5September) sees him push a massive block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it melts to nothing, herd sheep in a circular walk around the imposing flagpole of the main square until it becomes difficult to discern who is leading who, and persuade 500 volunteers, armed with spades, to shift a huge sand dune in Lima a few centimetres along. Much of this is an arch comment on Latin American politics – where much is prom- ised, but little delivered – but there is no resigned nihilism here; the emphasis is very much on a belief that doing something, anything, is better than simply giving in, particularly when it nurtures the primordial joy of a communal endeavour alongside your fellow man. Francis Alÿs’s art is about the triumph of hope – and the grubby reality be damned. PB PUBLIC eye N.C. Wyeth ‘A Young Maine Fisherman’ 1933, at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Francis Al ÿ s ‘When Faith Moves Mountains’ at Tate Modern.