Frederic Stern Gallery

Recently acquired piece by Elise Seeds, painted in 1953.

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Over the past weekend I attended the Los Angeles Art Association, at Gallery 825, annual benefit exhibition and auction.  The LAAA, founded in 1925, is a non-profit organization devoted to the exhibition and support of Los Angeles artists, emphasizing on emerging talent.

LAAA donates their time and efforts to the artist members and assists them in promotion, education and exposure.  The LAAA has been an integral part in the Los Angeles art scene for over 80 years and continues to work hard to develop and nurture these talented Los Angeles artists.

One of the many shows and exhibits they put on, the Annual Benefit Auction, is one of their key events to raise money and support for the association.  Such artists as Peter Shire, Karl Benjamin and Ed Moses had works donated for the live auction as well as a talented group of emerging Los Angeles artists had their pieces up for silent bidding.

It was a great show to attend and I would urge all of my friends to visit the gallery and association when they can.

Robert Frame began his art career in the mid - 1940’s. He attended Pasadena City College and Pomona College in Claremont. Frame received several awards in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s among these were awards from the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pasadena Art Museum in California.
His group showings include prestigious museums such as: San Francisco Museum of Art, DeYoung Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art and many others.

Robert Frame also showed in the 1950s at such renowned Los Angeles galleries Ester Robles Gallery and Ankrum Gallery where he sold all of the pieces shown.
During this time in the Los Angeles gallery scene, Robert Frame was among other exhibiting artists like Sam Francis, Richard Diebenkorn, James Strombotne and Ed Keinholz. Although he was very well received and recognized, Robert Frame always loved to teach.

In 1966 he took a job teaching in Santa Barbara and lived and painted there till he passed away in 1999. Having spent this many years teaching Frame has relatively little gallery involvement and representation.

I consider Robert Frame as an artist of the time being rediscovered. He painted in the Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figural Style and at the time had shown concurrently with the major figures of those movements.

It is an amazing feeling to be able to re-introduce the art world to this talented and amazing individual.

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the 13th annual LA Art Show held at Santa Monica Airport in the Barker Hangar. The LA Art show is one of the premier art shows in the country presented by FADA, the Fine Art Dealers Association. Showcasing fine art from the 19th century to contemporary and modern work, the LA Art Show is a week-long event where major galleries and print dealers across the world collaborate to celebrate and showcase fine works or art.

Among the 125 exhibitors involved will be New York galleries: Charles Cowles Gallery, Flowers, Jane Kahan Gallery, Pace Prints, and Rehs Gallery; California galleries: George Stern Fine Arts, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Gemini G.E.L.,and Paul Thiebaud Gallery; Texas galleries: PanAmerican ArtProjects and David Dike Fine Art; New Mexico galleries: Gebert Contemporary, Gerald Peters Gallery, LewAllen Contemporary and Bellas Artes; Washington galleries: Greg Kucera Gallery and Winston Wachter Fine Art; International galleries: Neffe-Degandt Fine Art and Steps Gallery from England, Misool Sidae AKA Seoul Gallery from South Korea, Wetterling Gallery from Sweden, Whitespace Gallery from New Zealand, Walter Bischoff Gallery from Germany and Gallery Jones, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery and Newzones from Canada.

In addition, numerous museums participate in the show such as Autry National Center, the Art Museum Council of LACMA (AMC), Claremont Graduate University, Fine Art Conservation Laboratories, LA Packing, Crating and Transport, Installation by Maddy Le Meif, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles Art Association Gallery 825, Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Museum of Ventura County, Prints and Drawing Council of LACMA (PDC) and the Riverside Art Museum.

It was an amazing show that you really must attend to appreciate. Hopefully I will see you next year.

This coming Saturday, the Pasadena Museum of California Art opens their show “A Seed of Modernism: The Art Students League of Los Angeles, 1906-1953″. This marks an important period in Southern California art history when artists began collectively defying traditional art movements and academia. Founded and established in 1906, over 30 years later that the Art Students League of New York, the Art Students League of Los Angeles truly focused on a Modernist view and approach towards art and society.

This group of pioneering artists would lay the groundwork for future modernists artists that worked and lived in California and brought California to be a more respected venue and market for fine art.Although the League’s epicenter would be Los Angeles its themes and ideas would branch out into the Modernist movement throughout California. The League’s incorporation of Western European, Middle Eastern and even Japanese influences allowed artists creative freedom to paint the world around them however they see fit.

The League eventually dispersed at our country’s entry into World War II but its idealism continued. Many post-war modernists worked with the same creative freedom and vigor. Also, the end of the war brought a growing trend of Modernists painting life as they’d like to see it instead of how it appeared. Artists such as Roland Petersen, Robert Frame, Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Thiebaud and Sam Francis are important examples of how the Modernist movement continued in California after World War II. I am honored to represent Roland Petersen and Robert Frame at Frederic Stern Gallery.

I recently had the pleasure of meeting Roland Petersen and his wife, Caryl Ritter.  Both Roland and Caryl, besides being wonderful people, are both very talented artists. Caryl is an accomplished photographer and Roland a world renowned painter.

Roland is well known for his picnic series of paintings which he began in 1959 while at UC Davis.  He continues this rich vibrant series today showing his command of light and color as well as his portrayal of a modern landscape.  Roland continues to carry a strong presence in contemporary art as well as being in the top tier of post war modernists.

I am pleased to represent Roland Petersen and Caryl Ritter in my gallery.

Hello again.

As I mentioned before, I am in Carmel, CA viewing the Concours, visiting with some contemporary artists and enjoying the beautiful weather. Also, as mentioned before, a great number of California artists painted along the coastline especially focusing in and around Carmel and Monterey. Armin Hansen, for example, painted prolifically here and the Monterey Museum of Art has an amazing collection of his works, a lot of which showcase his love and affinity for this part of California.

Her are some pictures of Point Lobos State Reserve; an area of the coast set as national reserve land where many California artists, past and present, loved to paint and visit.

Amazing, isn’t it?

Best,

F.S.

Hello, I’m Frederic Stern and welcome to my first blog post. I am currently in Carmel, CA for the Concours D’Elegance, the premier classic car show in the world, held here at Pebble Beach since 1950. I have had the pleasure of seeing rare and amazing cars, works of art and a coastal view that is second to none.

Carmel and Monterey, CA are favorite locations of artists in California’s history. Traveling and painting throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s, California Impressionists such as Armin Hansen, William Ritschel, Guy Rose and Granville Redmond (to name a small few) captured the coast and raw landscape of this area. These artists are a great example of the fine art I will be carrying in my gallery.

Please visit me again soon for an update of more upcoming events and shows, artists information and news.

Thanks.

F.S.