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George Krevsky Gallery

George Krevsky Gallery

77 Geary Street San Francisco, California CA 94108

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Description

George Krevsky Gallery specializes in 20th century American art in the figurative tradition, emphasizing the Ashcan, Regionalist, Modernist, and Social Realist schools. The gallery is committed to showcasing art of the highest quality that documents the cultural history of the last century. The guiding philosophy is to make historically significant fine art accessible to all levels of collecting.

Beginning with the rise of urban scene painting during the Ashcan period, the gallery features the paintings and prints of George Bellows, John Sloan, Theresa Bernstein, and the later Reginald Marsh. The theme of urban imagery and political activism continues with social realists Ben Shahn, Jack Levine, Ruth Gikow, Jennings Tofel, and the Soyer brothers, Raphael, Moses, and Isaac. The gallery shows Depression-era WPA art with Regionalist works both by national leaders, Benton, Curry, and Wood, and also California practitioners of the style such as, John Haley, Erle Loran, and Dorothy Winslade. Also exhibited are Post Armory Show Modernists including Steiglitz circle artists Arthur Dove and John Marin, Precisionists Louis Lozowick and Howard Cook, and the individual styles of Milton Avery and Rockwell Kent. George Krevsky Gallery takes pride in its groundbreaking historical exhibitions and its status as a primary resource for early 20th century American art on the West Coast.

George Krevsky Gallery complements historical works with a select group of Northern California contemporary artists whose work is consistent with the gallery's direction. These artists, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Walter Kuhlman, Maurice Lapp, Glenna Putt, Mary Robertson, and William Wheeler, all live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Critically acclaimed New York based John Dobbs and Israeli Michael Kovner round out the stable.

A popular feature of the gallery’s schedule is its annual Art of Baseball exhibition where artists from across the country contribute paintings, prints, drawings, photographs and sculpture to this always well attended show.

George Krevsky has been in the art business in San Francisco since 1978. After serving as a gallery director and private dealer in the Bay Area for fourteen years, he opened the gallery’s current location in the Union Square district of downtown San Francisco in December 1992. Mr. Krevsky has been a board member of the San Francisco Art Dealer's Association since 1996.


Gallery Artists:
CONTEMPORARY:
Helen Berggruen
John Dobbs
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Ken Kalman
Michael Kovner
Walter Kuhlman
Maurice Lapp
Jack Levine
Richard Nagler
Glenna Putt
Mary Robertson
William Wheeler

HISTORICAL:
Milton Avery
George Bellows
Thomas Hart Benton
Theresa Bernstein
Oscar Bluemner
Mary Cassatt
Boris Deutsch
Ruth Gikow
William Gropper
John Haley
Rockwell Kent
Oswald Kurman
Jacob Landau
Richard Lindner
Louis Lozowick
Ben Shahn
Louis Siegriest
John Sloan
Moses Soyer
Raphael Soyer
Jennings Tofel
Dorothy Winslade

 
 

Close Observation

7 January - 21 February, 2010

Close Observation

Gordon Cook: Paintings, Works on Paper, and Sculpture

4 March - 1 April, 2010

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Depictions of the San Francisco Bay, water tanks, and domestic icons, with a whimsical eye and magical hand, often contemplative, and sometimes ominous.