This unique ink drawing MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 10 7/8 X 13 7/8 INCHES ON PAPER by Henry Kallem is a one-of-a-kind piece that showcases his talent as a New York City artist. The portrait is a modernist style piece that features a beautiful female figure, drawn with precision and care. The artwork is unframed, but the medium-sized drawing is sure to make a statement in any room. The piece is signed by the artist himself, making it an original and authentic addition to any art collection. The drawing was produced in 1959, and is a perfect representation of the artist's skill and creativity during that time period. This handmade piece is a must-have for any art enthusiast who appreciates unique and beautiful artwork. Henry Kallem was an abstract painter and printmaker. He painted in New York City and during summers on Monhegan Island. Henry Kallem, a New York artist and an abstract expressionist, died of an apparent heart attack Monday at his summer home in Monhegan Island, Me. He was 73 years old.Mr. Kallem, who lived in the Bronx, was a native of Philadelphia. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He developed a distinctive style involving triptychs and large compound paintings that he called room dividers. His work is on view in several museums and galleries, including the Corcoran Galleries in Washington and in private collections.He is survived by his wife, the former Anne Egan; a son, Matthew of the Bronx; and two brothers, Herbert, a New York sculptor, and William of Kenville, Tex. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ HENRY KALLEM 1912-1985Born in Philadelphia, Henry Kallem began studying art at a young age, working with his father, the portrait painter, Morris Kallem. In the early 1930s, he moved to New York City and enrolled at the National Academy of Design. During the Depression he found work in the easel division of the Federal Art Project. Later, in 1946, he continued his studies, attending classes at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts. In 1947 he was awarded first prize in the Pepsi Cola Paintings of the Year Competition and was featured in an article in Life Magazine. Throughout his life he supplemented his painting career by teaching and producing commercial art. Kallem first came to Monhegan in the early 1950’s with his brother, Herbert Kallem, and other 28th Street artists, eventually building a home and studio on the south end of the island. Kallem had many solo exhibitions, and showed with the Casein Society and the Pennsylvania Academy. He was also represented in many national shows, such as the Corcoran Biennial, the Carnegie International, and the International Watercolor show at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. The trajectory of art history on Monhegan was forever changed when a group of New York City artists discovered the Monhegan muse after World War II. We explore the work of twelve artists who lived in New York in the winter, and spent summers on Monhegan Island. They met at art school or through the Federal Art Project created during the Depression. On Monhegan, they made up a large part of the post World War II art community, choosing the island for its affordability, inspiration, and isolation. They shared close friendships, engaging in sketching groups, art critiques, and poker games with the year-rounders; but at the same time respected each other’s need for creative space. Together they contributed to the revitalization of the art colony on Monhegan Island in the mid-twentieth-century. Henry Kallem, a New York artist and an abstract expressionist, died of an apparent heart attack Monday at his summer home in Monhegan Island, Me. He was 73 years old. Mr. Kallem, who lived in the Bronx, was a native of Philadelphia. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He developed a distinctive style involving triptychs and large compound paintings that he called room dividers. His work is on view in several museums and galleries, including the Corcoran Galleries in Washington and in private collections. He is survived by his wife, the former Anne Egan; a son, Matthew of the Bronx; and two brothers, Herbert, a New York sculptor, and William of Kenville, Tex. Lori Bookstein Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of collages by Henry Rothman [1910- 1990]. This is the artist’s third solo show at the gallery. Henry Rothman began his art career as a photographer in the thirties, where he found himself naturally drawn to the decay of urban life in New York. The artist photographed everything from ragged advertisements and timeworn shop signs to abandoned homes and buildings in various states of ruin. However, by the late fifties, Rothman began to create unique collages, whereby he maintained his previous interest in the antiquated. The marled surfaces and eroded façades he once photographed were now appropriated by means of torn advertisements and found posters to create formally abstract collages. A majority of Rothman's collages are marked by text that was printed on the papers he selected. While some words are certainly legible, most often his use of type was formal rather than referential. Indeed, the pattern of the words across the page and shapes of the individual letters seem to be the artist's principal concern. In other places, the bellowing curves and harsh angles of the typography only heighten the disjointed rhythm of the collage. Even in the works that contain no text at all, Rothman was able to create such depth in the way he layered the various textures and surface-finishes of each element that at times, his collages seem to deny their own twodimensionality. Henry Rothman studied journalism at New York University and art at the Art School of Vienna. He co-founded the 28th Street Artists in 1947, whose members included Zero Mostel, Joseph deMartini, Henry Kallem and others. His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Canada, Arkansas Arts Center, Provincetown Art Association and Museum as well as the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction. A selection of works by gallery artists will be on rotating exhibition in Gallery II. Henry Rothman: Collages will be on view from April 30 – May 30, 2015. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 30th from 6-8 pm. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10:30 am to 6:00 pm. For additional information and/or visual materials, please contact the gallery at Even decades after the last musical creatives left the block, 47 West 28th Street was home to visual and performing artists. In 1947, painter and then-47 West 28th Street studio resident Henry Kallem won first prize for his work, “Country Tenement” in the Pepsi-Cola Exhibition. In 1966, June Ekman, a dancer, became a resident of a fourth-floor loft at this address “as owners began to fill the buildings with artists” and ran June Ekman Studio from this address into the 2010s.133 Flower District and Other Tenants At 47 West 28th Street, Tin Pan Alley’s songwriters’ and publishers’ offices were above and below real estate agents’, a stockbroker’s, and a physician’s office; a tailor shop; and frame shops. Florists began to open shops in the 1890s on 28th Street, which became the core of New York City’s Flower District, and were in business at 47 West 28th Street from 1900 onward.134