Waterhouse & Dodd New York is proud to present the gallery's 25th Anniversary Exhibition at our new Madison Avenue space, which will be dedicated to artists from the Post-War and Contemporary art eras.

For our inaugural exhibition, the gallery will highlight important paintings, sculpture and works on paper by world-renowned artists including Alexander Calder, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Allan D'Arcangelo, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann.

Works featured include an iconic portrait of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Andy Warhol, titled "Blue Jackie" (1964). This painting belongs to the artist's ubiquitous "Jackie" silkscreen series and is considered among his most important bodies of work. Exemplifying the artist's signature conceptual and aesthetic interests, from his obsession with celebrity, fashion and popular culture to his fascination with tragedy and the appropriation of found imagery, "Blue Jackie" encompasses Warhol's significant contribution to visual culture.

Warhol’s pervasive influence on successive generations of contemporary artists will be the subject of a major exhibition, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 18th – December 31st. During this seminal survey of Warhol’s oeuvre, Waterhouse & Dodd offers an intimate juxtaposition of Warhol with established Post-War artists, many of whom were his contemporaries during the Pop Art movement’s apex in the 1960s.

Allan D’Archangelo’s work Four Squares (1964) appropriates roadside imagery, from the classic American open highway to deconstructed street signs, while Robert Indiana’s use of text and symbols further alludes to iconography of the American landscape. Jim Dine’s painting North West Hot Springs (2005) incorporates Warhol’s methodology of image repetition in relation to an object of personal or applied significance: in Dine’s case, the bathrobe. Tom Wesselmann, renowned for his signature Pop aesthetic, is represented by the steel-cut relief Monica: Nude With a Purple Robe (1990), a later example of the artist's acclaimed series of nudes.

With these works, alongside Calder's graphic, modern painting and Christo and Jeanne-Claude's collage of their legendary Central Park project The Gates, Waterhouse & Dodd's 25th Anniversary exhibition celebrates the legacies of these creative visionaries, as well as the gallery's own history and new beginning at 958 Madison Avenue.

Waterhouse & Dodd Fine Art          

958 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021                                                                                                    

25th Anniversary Exhibition: Post-War & Contemporary Art in America

Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 19th, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Exhibition dates: September 20th – October 13th, 2012

About Waterhouse & Dodd

Ray Waterhouse and Jonathan Dodd began working together in 1982 and formed Waterhouse & Dodd five years later. In 1989 they opened a first-floor gallery in Bond Street and in 2001 moved nearby to 26 Cork Street. Their gallery at Cork Street is now dedicated to a program of contemporary art exhibitions, whilst their Impressionist and Modern art has relocated Savile Row. Waterhouse & Dodd announced the opening of their New York spaces in 2011, a private gallery for Impressionist and Modern Art on the Upper East Side and a Contemporary Art Gallery in SoHo, with the most recent addition of a space on Madison Avenue and 75th Street. Heidi Lee, a prominent art advisor, has joined the gallery to manage the program on Madison Avenue. For 25 years Waterhouse & Dodd have dealt in paintings from the late 19th and 20th centuries by major artists. During the 1990s they increasingly offered professional advice to collectors, a service that became formalized into one of the most respected art advisory services in the world, Fine Art Brokers. Waterhouse & Dodd participates in distinguished fairs such as TEFAF- Maastrich, Art Abu Dhabi, and Art Miami, among others. Please contact the gallery for more information.