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Jeanie Gallup Mottet
(1864-1934) • "White Fox", oil on canvas, 32" x 26",
SLR
In addition to
the value of these works individually,
this collection is unrivaled in its comprehensive
display of American art history by women artists.
Considered a historical document, nearly impossible
to duplicate, this collection is beyond rare. It is
"The Collection".
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The
Louise and Alan Sellars Collection of
American Women Artists
1850-1940
We
are pleased to announce that this
monumental collection has been sold intact
and will be preserved, honored and expanded by a
major museum in the United States.
An entire wing is being built that
will become
the permanent home for the collection which will be
debuted in the fall of 2009.
This collection provides
a comprehensive and breathtaking
display of American art history by women artists. It is
an
important historical document that travels through time and
spans
across all regions of the country, providing a mirror into
the nearly
forgotten lives and artistic achievements of our nation's
early
women artists of this period. It is a vital and missing
piece of the puzzle that is American Art
history.
An Act of
Omission
The period 1850-1940 was a time that fostered the largest
number of America's finest early women artists who exhibited
in their paintings the mastery of technical skill,
expressive sensibility and vitality, and unique and
progressive originality; all traits shared by the most
highly regarded of their male contemporaries.
Of
their works existing today, for many of these women in
exceedingly short supply, a connection of ethereal beauty
and a mysterious perception of reality, of which only the
true artist can achieve, these paintings are left for us to
experience in joyous wonderment. This truly was a period
when tremendous stylistic and intellectual changes were
taking place in the art world.
For
what ever the reasons have been, most of these women's
accomplishments have been generally concealed and obscured
from our society by the art scholars and institutions who
profess diligence in the recognition, preservation and
dissemination of American art history. This reality of
omission is inconceivable though reconcilable.
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