{"id":123933,"date":"2025-11-08T02:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/123933\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T02:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:50:12","slug":"gladstone-gallery-now-represents-the-robert-colescott-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/123933\/","title":{"rendered":"Gladstone Gallery Now Represents the Robert Colescott Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe estate of Robert Colescott<\/a> will now be represented by Gladstone Gallery<\/a>, which will mount its first exhibition for the artist next year and bring work by him to the upcoming edition of Art Basel Miami Beach next month.<\/p>\n

\n\tColescott, who died in 2009, is one of the 20th century\u2019s most important American artists. His large-scale paintings are known for their satirical, biting condemnations of both American history and art history.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong his most famous works is George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook (1975), which transforms George Washington and his company into Black figures, many of whom he depicted as racist stereotypes. The painting remains provocative\u2014it was critiqued even during its time. Colescott intended the work to highlight not only how Black people had been excluded from the historical and painted record, but also to show that when those figures do appear, they are show up as caricatures.<\/p>\n

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\n\tColescott represented the United States at the 1997 Venice Biennale, becoming the first Black artist to do so. He was the subject of a major traveling retrospective in 1987 that originated at the San Jose Museum of Art in California, and in 2019, Lowery Stokes Sims and Matthew Weseley co-curated his first posthumous retrospective, which debuted at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati in Ohio. He will be the subject of another retrospective that will open in December at the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington to mark the centennial of the artist\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHis work resonates with so many important artists in the program, and it felt like a very natural fit,\u201d Gladstone senior partner Max Falkenstein told ARTnews. \u201cGladstone has never shied away from art that explores identity and politics, and Colescott represents the foundation of this for so many contemporary artists today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFalkenstein, who described himself as a \u201chuge fan of Colescott,\u201d said the gallery had long been interested in representing Colescott\u2019s art, but a recent introduction to the family a few months ago led to the partnership. The estate was looking for new representation after its longtime gallery Blum, which first mounted a Colescott show in 2018, closed<\/a> over the summer. \u201cThe dialog developed very naturally,\u201d Falkenstein said of the conversation with the estate.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an email to ARTnews, the estate said that its choice of a gallery representative was made with how best to preserve and advance the legacy of Colescott. \u201cFrom our very first conversation with the Gladstone partners, it was evident that their enthusiasm, professionalism, and shared commitment to legacy building aligned seamlessly with our own,\u201d the family said. \u201cDuring our time together, they expressed many of the same goals and aspirations that have guided us for years. Our partnership with Gladstone represents both an intuitive and intellectual connection\u2014a true meeting of values, vision, and dedication.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGeorge Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware sold for $15.3 million at a Sotheby\u2019s New York sale in 2021, shattering the artist\u2019s previous auction record of $912,500 set in 2018. That painting is now in the collection of the forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile that might seem like an outlier, Falkenstein characterized Colescott\u2019s market as being \u201cstrong, but there are still a lot of opportunities for growth and development. We look forward to supporting it on every aspect of his 50-year career. We\u2019re looking forward to getting started.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The estate of Robert Colescott will now be represented by Gladstone Gallery, which will mount its first exhibition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,82581,86524,111,139,69,86525],"class_list":{"0":"post-123933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-gallery-representation","15":"tag-gladstone-gallery","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-robert-colescott"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}