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Associated American Artists (AAA) was an art gallery in New York City that was established in 1934 and ceased operation in 2000. [1] The gallery marketed art to the middle and upper-middle classes, first in the form of affordable prints and later in home furnishings and accessories, and played a significant role in the growth of art as an industry.
Lawrence Beall Smith (October 2, 1909 – 1995) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor and lithographer. Examples of his original lithographs, paintings and sculpture are included in the permanent collections of such major galleries as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the University of ...
Aaron Gunn Pyle (February 19, 1909 – December 25, 1972) was an American painter known for his contributions to Regionalist painting. His work is closely tied to the Midwestern United States , the region where he was born and spent most of his life.
Gafford was involved in founding the Los Angeles Negro Art Association in 1937, and the Eleven Associated Artists gallery (later Art West Association) in downtown Los Angeles. The short lived Los Angeles artists co-op included African American contemporaries Beulah Woodard, William Pajaud and Chinese American artist Tyrus Wong. [12] [13]
Maurice Brazil Prendergast (October 10, 1858 – February 1, 1924) was an American artist who painted in oil and watercolor, and created monotypes.His delicate landscapes and scenes of modern life, characterized by mosaic-like color, are generally associated with Post-Impressionism.
When Benton was fired from the Art Institute, the Board of Governors offered de Martelly Benton's job as head of the Painting Department. [3] De Martelly was furious and quit. [4] De Martelly's lithographs, sold through the Associated American Artists Galleries in New York in the 1930s and 1940s, [5] captured the essence of the rural American ...
The Art Institute immediately hired him to teach watercolor classes, and James began a close association with fellow teacher and famed Regionalist artist Thomas Hart Benton. Benton selected 15 of James’ watercolors to be included in a widely publicized exhibition of his students’ work that was held at the Associated American Artists Gallery ...
After that, he had shows at the Dayton Art Institute in Ohio (1944) and the Associated American Artist Gallery in New York (1946). In 1947 his work was shown at the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas, and ten of his color lithographs were reproduced in the article "The American Highway" in The Lamp, published by Standard Oil , New Jersey.