Rosemarie Beck's paintings of interiors with figures from the fifties and sixties gleam with a bohemian radiance. Seen now they seem to reflect their period and yet relate to certain tendencies in contemporary representational painting. Beck was always a polymath. She played the violin, worked in theater, and studied art history at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts with Erwin Panofsky.

Chuck Bowdish’s visionary figurative work in various media describes a miraculous world inhabited by women, children, angels, mobsters, soldiers and police, where innocence struggles with evil.
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Gandy Brodie was born in New York City and grew up in the tenements on the lower east side. Essentially a self taught artist, Brodie was deeply impressed by the work of Van Gogh, Picasso, Klee, Soutine, and Mondrian, all who had an influence on his singular "expressionist" style.
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Anne Harvey was an American artist who worked primarily in France. Her admirers included Giacometti (who bought a painting), Calder (who commissioned a painting,) Miro, Brancusi (her first teacher) and Duchamp (who offered to arrange a show of her work in America just before he died.)
John Heliker (1909-2000), who had a home on Cranberry Island, Maine with his partner, painter Robert Lahotan, became one of the highly individual voices – like John Marin and Marsden Hartley – to translate the northern motif of Maine into pictorial form.
The work of Earl Kerkam (1891-1965) is a connecting thread between the School of Paris and the New York School. Kerkam grew up in Virginia, and studied in several schools, including that of Robert Henri.
Kurt Knobelsdorf, a young artist based in Philadelphia and now working in Miami, paints architecture, landscape, and figures from life, his own photography, and found imagery. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he won several awards, and then came under the influence of E.M. Saniga, another artist shown by Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects.
Sangram Majumdar, was born in Calcutta, India, received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and his MFA from Indiana University. He is a young painterly realist whose work expands the perimeters of contemporary representation. His paintings have grown progressively more radical in the way they try to encapsulate human perception.
Seymour Remenick (1923-1999), was born in Detroit and raised in Philadelphia. He studied with Hans Hofmann from 1946-48. His work shifted from the modernist paintings influenced by Hofmann’s teachings, to work made directly from life that relates to the plein-air tradition of Constable and Corot.
The Vermont-born New York painter Bill Rice was a master
of the nocturnal cityscape.A personality of cosmopolitan
diversity, he was a respected actor in underground film and
lower east side theater as well as a painter with over forty
years of work exhibited in galleries such as the 56 Bleeker
in the 80's and the Sidney Janis Gallery in the 90's.
E. M. Saniga presents a naturalistic yet mysterious vision of reality. His genres, still life, landscape and figures are entirely traditional but something marks them as different. His American masters seem to be Eakins, Homer and Dickinson and the European influences that we can perceive in his work include Corot, Degas, Balthus and Vuillard among others.
Stuart Shils’s paintings take as their subject the rural landscapes of Indiana,Vermont and County Mayo, Ireland. Shils is a painter of specific moments, working quickly to capture shifting light and weather conditions, time of day and qualities of season.
Lennart Anderson studied at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cranbrook Academy, and at the Art Students League under Edwin Dickinson. He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and is an Associate of the National Academy of Design. He has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Tiffany Foundation grant, the Rome Prize, and awards from the National Academy of Design and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.


