APAA’s Lauren Della Monica Vets The Winter Show

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Apr 12

APAA member Lauren P. Della Monica takes you behind the scenes with Liz Feld (Managing Director, Hirschl & Adler) during The Winter Show's vetting day, a preparatory event that takes place during the show's set-up period. Each year every object that is presented on the Show floor is vetted by a committee of more than 120 experts from the United States and Europe, examining all work in person. Members of the Vetting Committee are all impartial experts in their fields.

Lauren and Liz discuss the work of American artist Honoré Sharrer. In 1951, Sharrer had a solo exhibition at New York’s prestigious Knoedler Gallery, where her five-panel work, Tribute to the American Working People (1946–51), attracted favorable critical praise and press notice. Indeed, the first baker’s dozen years of Sharrer’s career promised a successful, high-profile future, but Sharrer’s career was stymied by the political forces of McCarthism and the advent of Abstract Expressionism.