Hirschl & Adler is proud to announce its 14th consecutive year in Art Basel Miami Beach. Fulfilling a crucial role at the fair, H&A will offer some of the finest examples of 20th-century American Modernism by influential and diverse artists including Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, Winold Reiss, Andrew Wyeth, and others. Also featured will be important Post-War work by Joan Snyder, Elaine DeKooning, Elizabeth Catlett, Franz Kline, Jules Olitski, and others.
H&A will further augment its main presentation by participating in the Kabinett program with an installation of Southern vernacular American art focusing on three important artists: Purvis Young (Miami, Florida, 1943–2010); Willard Watson, (Caddo Parish, Louisiana, 1921–1995); and Lonnie Holley (Birmingham, Alabama, b. 1950). All three artists are Southern, self-taught Black artists whose work emerges from conditions of historical neglect, marginalization, and personal resilience—and who each create deeply narrative, visionary, and socially rooted art. Together they create a visual language that serves as record of systemic injustice, urban decay, rural displacement; as resistance through spiritual reinvention and mythmaking; and as a kind of resurrection of both self and community. All three artists depict a world that is at the same time broken and sacred, and they build from the materials at hand—both literal and historical. They each draw from the urgency of experience with little separation between their life and art. Their improvisational style and historical memory make them witnesses and crucial archivists of a reality many institutions previously ignored.