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Mimi Herbert in Smithsonian Magazine

Mimi Herbert in Smithsonian Magazine

Mimi Herbert's Folded Flag #2 was featured in the article, "Fourth of July Journey Through American Art" in the Smithsonian Magazine. See Folded Flag #2 on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, or see works from the same series on view at Bethesda Fine Art.

Mimi Herbert

Mimi Herbert

Upcoming Exhibition and New Interview in Sculpture Magazine

Bethesda Fine Art is excited to announce a new exhibition of Mimi Herbert’s latest works, held in collaboration with Amy Kaslow Gallery. MIMI HERBERT: FOLDS will open June 6th at Amy Kaslow Gallery, and in conjunction with this exhibition, Bethesda Fine Art will have selected works by Herbert on view. As representatives of Mimi Herbert, we are pleased to see her range continue to grow into local galleries and institutions. Learn more about the artist and her work in a featured interview with curator Jean Lawlor Cohen in Sculpture Magazine. 

View Interview Here

Remembering Frank Stella

Remembering Frank Stella

A leading figure of modern American art, Frank Stella leaves behind a legacy of innovation in 20th century American art.

(re)FOCUS: Then and Now

(re)FOCUS: Then and Now

On view through May 31st

An arts festival celebrating the 50th anniversary of Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual arts, re(FOCUS) includes works by Lee Krasner and Cynthia Bickley-Green. Both artists exhibited in the original festival, and we are excited to highlight them here. 

Carroll Sockwell returns to the Corcoran

Carroll Sockwell returns to the Corcoran

The Luther W. Brady Gallery is celebrating artist Carroll Sockwell in their exhibition "A Corcoran Homecoming: The Art of Carroll Sockwell." Sockwell had a longstanding relationship with the Corcoran, fist as a former student at the Corcoran School of Art and later as a featured artist in several exhibitions including a 1974 solo show at the gallery. This exhibition runs from January 29th, 2023 - March 9th, 2024.

Kenneth Victor Young at SAAM, The Bruce Museum

Kenneth Victor Young at SAAM, The Bruce Museum

Kenneth Victor Young featured in several exhibitions, permanent collections.

Untitled, 1973 (left) on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

A Guide to Black Art in DC: Emerging Artists, Galleries, and More

100 years of innovative and enduring work

CYNTHIA BICKLEY-GREEN, JOAN DANZIGER, MIMI HERBERT

CYNTHIA BICKLEY-GREEN, JOAN DANZIGER, MIMI HERBERT

From the 1960’s to Today

As Washington D.C. emerged as an artistic center in the late 60’s with Washington Color School artists at the forefront, three pioneering female artists began their careers — Cynthia Bickley-Green, Joan Danziger, and Mimi Herbert. Each demonstrated a freedom of vision in the DC art scene, making their marks in the typically male-dominated fields of color field painting or sculpture. Now in their 80s, these women continue to innovate in their respective fields. All three artists are currently represented in major museums and collections, including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and the National Gallery of Art. While their names might not be widely recognized, their work is still highly visible throughout the District and their contributions helped advance the position of women in modern art.

Color My World: Avery, Herbert, & Kahn

Taylor Graham Gallery

March 8th - April 15th

Mimi Herbert's folded acrylic sculptures join works by Sally Michel Avery and Wolf Kahn in an exhibition emphasizing color, form, and light.

Dan Kuhne: Last of the Post Impressionists

Dan Kuhne: Last of the Post Impressionists

March 8th - April 29th

Jo Fleming Contemporary Art will be featuring Dan Kuhne in an upcoming exhibition. Grand impressionist landscape masterpieces are a cornerstone of Maryland artist, Dan Kuhne’s rich career. They utilize synesthesia: exploring several senses at one time… music, dance, as well as visual, where forest becomes figure, line becomes movement and music.

Kuhne studied at the University of Maryland, and later took classes with Washington Color School artists including Gene Davis. He exhibited in the D.C. area during the 1970s at venues including Corcoran Gallery of Art and the University of Maryland. The Phillips Collection hosted a solo show of his work in 1972. Kuhne developed expertise in drawing, print, watercolor, as well as grand-scaled oil painting. Kuhne exhibited in the D.C. area at the Corcoran School of Arts & Design in 2018. His works are in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, University of Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art and American University Museum.

Mimi Herbert: Folded and Formed Acrylic at the Taylor Graham Gallery

Mimi Herbert: Folded and Formed Acrylic at the Taylor Graham Gallery

March 8th - April 15th

This new exhibition at the Taylor Graham Gallery will feature 6 folded and formed acrylic sculptures by Washington Color School sculptor Mimi Herbert. 

Bursting with lush color, and visually irresistible, Mimi Herbert’s folded acrylic sculptures seem deceptively simple. Achieved through team work, careful execution, and planning, as all great sculptures have been done in the past, they are equally at home in a traditional interior or a minimalist setting.

Mimi Herbert at The Phillips Collection

We are happy to announce the acquisition of Mimi Herbert’s Butterfly by The Phillips Collection. Butterfly will be featured in the upcoming Phillips exhibition Pour, Tear, Carve: Material Possibilities in the Collection opening on March 18th. The exhibition highlights the role that sculptural material plays in the artistic process and reveals how materials inform space and memory while engaging the senses. Herbert’s unique practice of forming acrylic sheets makes her work an exemplary inclusion in this exhibit, and we are excited to bring her work to a larger audience through this exhibition.

Dan Yellow Kuhne Wins Annie Award for Visual Art

Dan Yellow Kuhne Wins Annie Award for Visual Art

Honored by the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County

October 11, 2022

The annual Annie Award from the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County publicly recognizes exceptional artists for their lasting, significant, and inspiring contributions to an art form, an arts organization and/or to the wider community of Anne Arundel County. For the 2022 Annie Award for Visual Art, Kuhne's honorees cited his longtime arts teaching and paintings of the local landscape: "He records the many moods of Anne Arundel County. The rivers, the land, the weather, the flora and fauna, all the while expressing his love for nature. His work is expressive and romantic, a joy with which to live. He is 80 years of age now. It's time for us to honor him with an Annie."

Mark Dagley Acquired by Smithsonian

Mark Dagley Acquired by Smithsonian

August 18, 2022

The Smithsonian Museum of American Art recently acquired Dagley's painting, Hero (1987), the first museum in Washington, DC, the artist's hometown, to do so. Dagley's work can also be found in the collections of The Ludwig Collection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Buenos Aires, and more.

Interview with Sam Gilliam by Kenneth V. Young

Interview with Sam Gilliam by Kenneth V. Young

This historic 1984 interview was part of Smithsonian Archives of American Art's Oral History Program, which documents the history of the visual arts in the United States.

Please enjoy some excerpts where the two artists discuss their beginnings in Louisville, the influence of jazz, fellow Color school artists, and technique of using acrylic paint.

Bethesda Fine Art Presents "#Corcoran1970s"

Bethesda Fine Art Presents "#Corcoran1970s"

Ongoing

Bethesda Fine Art is proud to present #Corcoran1970s, an exhibition celebrating the circle of abstract artists who showed, taught, and were affiliated with the Corcoran Gallery of Art in the 1970s. The Corcoran Gallery of Art was an artistic center for Washington, D.C. artists, particularly abstractionists, during the 1970’s. Active in the Corcoran’s orbit were Washington Color School notables such as Leon Berkowitz, Cynthia Bickley-Green, Gene Davis, Sam Gilliam, Mimi Herbert, Dan Yellow Kuhne, Howard Mehring, Paul Reed, and Kenneth Young. While most showed in group shows, a select few, including Berkowitz, Davis, Mehring, Reed, and Young, had their own solo exhibitions.

MIMI HERBERT AND CYNTHIA BICKLEY-GREEN FEATURED IN “NINTH STREET AND BEYOND: 70 YEARS OF WOMEN IN ABSTRACTION”

MIMI HERBERT AND CYNTHIA BICKLEY-GREEN FEATURED IN “NINTH STREET AND BEYOND: 70 YEARS OF WOMEN IN ABSTRACTION”

An exhibition at Hunter Dunbar, New York

April 24 - May 25, 2022

Cynthia Bickley-Green and Mimi Herbert are featured in Ninth Street and Beyond: 70 Years of Women in Abstraction at Hunter Dunbar, New York. This exhibition—taking place in two parts over a three-month period—presents a never-before-seen assemblage of major paintings, works on paper, and sculptures created over the last 8 decades by more than 50 groundbreaking artists.

The Columbus Museum Acquires Kenneth V. Young

The Columbus Museum Acquires Kenneth V. Young

January 27, 2022

The Columbus Museum of Columbus, GA acquires Spring Joy, c. 1968-72.

Bruce Museum Acquires Mimi Herbert Sculpture

Bruce Museum Acquires Mimi Herbert Sculpture

October 12, 2021

The Bruce Museum of Greenwich, CT acquires Matador (2021) by Mimi Herbert.

"Primacy: The Washington Color School"

"Primacy: The Washington Color School"

An exhibition at Edward Tyler Nahem

September 9, 2021

Primacy: The Washington Color School, an exhibition curated by Dexter Wimberly, features paintings by nine eminent Washington Color School artists: Cynthia Bickley-Green, Gene Davis, Sam Francis, Sam Gilliam, Morris Louis, Howard Mehring, Kenneth Noland, Alma Thomas, and Kenneth V. Young. The origin of the Washington Color School is linked to a 1965 exhibition titled The Washington Color Painters, organized by Gerald Norland at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in Washington D.C. Five of the six artists in the original 1965 Washington Color Painters exhibition are included in Primacy. Bethesda Fine Art is proud to have lent works by Cynthia Bickley-Green and Kenneth V. Young to this exhibition.

Guggenheim Museum Acquires Kenneth V. Young

Guggenheim Museum Acquires Kenneth V. Young

June 21, 2021

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum acquires Untitled (1965).

"#Corcoran1970s" Exhibition Review

"#Corcoran1970s" Exhibition Review

March 11, 2021

Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D. reviews #Corcoran1970s on East City Art.

Pérez Art Museum Miami Acquires Kenneth V. Young

Pérez Art Museum Miami Acquires Kenneth V. Young

December 3, 2020

The acquisition by Pérez Art Museum Miami was made with the sound and steady guidance of Stacie Khandros at Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery.

René Morales, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Chief Curator at PAMM comments: "Pérez Art Museum Miami is thrilled to acquire this work by Kenneth Victor Young, thanks to the generosity of PAMM’s Collectors Council. Untitled (1970) will significantly add to the depth to our collection, where it will be in great company with Morris Louis, Sam Gilliam, Gene Davis and other artists associated with Color Field painting and the Washington Color School."

In the Limelight: Cynthia Bickley-Green Featured on TV

In the Limelight: Cynthia Bickley-Green Featured on TV

September 9, 2020

This past month, Cynthia Bickley-Green was featured on an Eastern North Carolina TV network about her recent commission for the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. In the clip, Cynthia brings the news crew into her studio to view her artwork, Lamentation, which will be featured on a billboard for the museum.

Bethesda Fine Art Congratulates Cynthia Bickley-Green on her Recent Achievements

Bethesda Fine Art Congratulates Cynthia Bickley-Green on her Recent Achievements

August 6, 2020

One of Cynthia Bickley-Green's most recent paintings, Lamentation, will soon be featured on a billboard for the North Carolina Museum of Art. Lamentation reflects Bickley-Green's engagement with the recent social and political happenings this year. The black square in the upper left corner marks the death of George Floyd, while the dark triangle on the lower left-center of the composition is an abstracted coronavirus. On the lower right is a globe to represent the worldwide impact of these recent events.

In addition, reflecting her success in the academic art world, Bickley-Green's painting, Predella, is on the most recent cover of National Art Education Association News.

"Kenneth V. Young: 1968 – 1972"

"Kenneth V. Young: 1968 – 1972"

An exhibition at Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art

February 20, 2020

Kenneth V. Young: 1968 – 1972 is a series of nine of the artist’s compelling colorful abstractions rendered in bright washes of acrylic, spanning from 1968-1974. His vibrant “orbs” - a motif he returned to throughout his career - are amassed, or diluted, by the varying combinations of acrylic paint, primer, and water-stained on unprimed canvases. The artist’s choice of material, scale, and technique offers an immersive experience into his imagined, abstract landscapes. Bethesda Fine Art is proud to have lent works to this exhibition.

Kenneth Victor Young Solo Show, "Continuum," at the AU Museum

Kenneth Victor Young Solo Show, "Continuum," at the AU Museum

04/06/2019

Continuum, a solo show of work by Kenneth Victor Young curated by Dexter Wimberly, is presented by the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center.

“Full Circle: Hue and Saturation in the Washington Color School”

“Full Circle: Hue and Saturation in the Washington Color School”

An exhibition at Corcoran School of the Arts and Design

June 14 - October 26, 2018

Bethesda Fine Art has loaned several works by Cynthia Bickley-Green and Kenneth V. Young for the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design’s exhibition, Full Circle: Hue and Saturation in the Washington Color School, at Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University.

Cynthia Bickley-Green at the Niagara Falls History Museum

Cynthia Bickley-Green at the Niagara Falls History Museum

June 13, 2018

Cynthia Bickley-Green's work A Cautionary Tale for Niagara Falls: Cape Town, 2018, is on view at the Niagara Falls History Museum's exhibition Water for Life.

Bethesda Fine Art and University of Maryland University College Present "The Language of Abstraction"

Bethesda Fine Art and University of Maryland University College Present "The Language of Abstraction"

March 12, 2018

The UMUC Arts Program at University of Maryland University College (UMUC) invites you to explore the art of internationally known artists Ed Clark (New York, New York), Richard W. Franklin (Bowie, Maryland), and the late Kenneth Young (Washington, DC). Clark, Franklin, and Young have devoted their artistic lives to creating abstract art that carries a message of awareness and intrigue through the use of math, astrology, and symbols.

Each artist has approached abstract art in a different way, but the style of each of them is structurally complex. This exhibition explores their different approaches to abstraction with the goal of unveiling the language within their work. The exhibition catalog includes an essay by art historian Virginia Adams, who earned her PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Bethesda Fine Art is proud to have lent works to this exhibition.

Washington Post Review of "Washington Color School: 50 Years Later"

Washington Post Review of "Washington Color School: 50 Years Later"

December 23, 2017

Washington Post critic Mark Jenkins writes: "Pretty, genteel and increasingly venerable, the paintings of 20th-century DC colorists are now enjoying a commercial revival. Bethesda Fine Art, which specializes in them, offers some fine examples in 'Washington Color School: 50 Years Later.'”

Late Artist Kenneth Young Is Finally Getting His Due

Late Artist Kenneth Young Is Finally Getting His Due

Feature by Kriston Capps in the "Washington City Paper"

June 1, 2017

Kenneth Young’s painting is a stand-out in a room full of them.

When the National Gallery of Art reopened its East Building in 2016 following a three-year renovation, the museum devoted a chunk of gallery space to the legends who worked here in the District. Names like Gene Davis. Kenneth Noland. “Relative” (1968), one of Sam Gilliam’s drape paintings, sags from four knotted corners, loose abstract canvas pinned along one gallery wall. Morris Louis’ “Beta Kappa” (1961), maybe the single best-known painting of the Washington Color School, hangs on the adjacent wall, a soggy series of poured rainbow stripes.

These are titans of Washington art—Alma Thomas, Leon Berkowitz, Anne Truitt. Among their works hangs “Red Dance” (1970), a stain painting by Young. It’s a storm of acrylic dabs on an unprimed canvas, blotches of ochre and burnt orange, a red-shifted Milky Way. The mark-making is distinct, but the mode is easy to identify. This is a Washington Color School painting, like and unlike the rest.