Arcadia Fine Arts Gallery Online Log / Blog

It’s one thing to name drop celebrities that stop by the gallery, or when their designers pick art for them. It’s a whole different story when celebrities publicly name drop painters they collect. Brooke Shields graces the cover of this month’s Architectural Digest with her Manhattan town house to reveal some really great works in her collection. In addition to personal gifts from Keith Haring, and the portrait commissions of her two daughters by Will Cotton, Shields shows off a classic Malcolm T. Liepke oil. A preview of this month’s issue is online at their website. Feel free to investigate for yourself– http://bit.ly/AhcFUG

The Liepke book is 50% off (plus shipping) now through Christmas. Go ahead– pick up this big, awesome coffee table book that you keep thinking about getting, but hope it finally goes on sale. Well, it’s on sale. It’s $62.50 plus $25 for shipping. $87.50 total. Give us a call or send us a check– treat yourself. Happy Holidays.

Just received a shipment of frames from Gala for the upcoming Liepke show. What we’re hearing is that there will be a total of 30 new works for the show.  It’s been a year since Liepke’s game changing “A Return To Beauty,” and I think it’s likely he will continue in that direction.  However, Liepke’s ability to explore the unexpected is what has made his work so vital and exciting to follow since day one.   The show opens December 10th (which is only 12 days away).  We have seen a few snap shots of works in progress.  We’re hoping to receive the majority of the show any day now, and (as always) we’re expecting to receive a few sopping wet stragglers the day before the show.  If the gallery doesn’t smell like oil paint the day of the show, then it’s not a true Liepke show.

I’ve been noticing a great deal of new fans on our blog, and I just wanted to thank everyone for being a part of Arcadia Gallery.  As a token of our gratitude, we’re offering a special promotion on our Liepke book just for our blog followers through the end of Memorial Day.

Everyone who responds to this offer before Tuesday May 31st,will be able to buy “Liepke: A Retrospective” 300-Page, coffee table bookfor a special discounted rate of only $100.00 (including shipping) AND a free copy of both the 2006 and 2008 Liepke catalogs.  The Liepke Retrospective book is normally $125 plus $25 shipping in the US, and both catalogs are regularly $5.00 each.

Call Arcadia Gallery at 212-965-1387 and order before May 31st!!!Get the book AND both catalogs. Happy Memorial Day.Call Now: 212-965-1387
*This offer is only valid within the United States.
**We’re closed Memorial Day– Please, leave a message.

Malcolm Liepke is one of the most influential figurative painters of the last 30 years.  That might sound like a sanctimonious claim, but I don’t think it’s an unrealistic one.  There are definitely a handful of painters out there trying to capture their own incarnation of Liepke’s thick, direct approach that lends to a certain emotional sensitivity.  More importantly, there are so many young artists that view him as a gateway  towards understanding the relevance of the same dead painters that have been putting high schoolers to sleep in art class slide shows since the 60′s— Degas, Sargent, Lautrec, Cassatt, Whistler—- He references those painters, but in a simplified way that really appeals to a contemporary audience.  His work reads as classic, but it also reads as something approachable, and physically possible by another human being.  It’s messy.  It’s beautifully flawed.  It shows evidence of an actual human being touching the canvas, as opposed to a cherub or some other inexplicable super human element.

His brush strokes are soooo simple, that they become inspirational.  His work has that kind of appeal that makes people want to do something in reaction to it– whether it’s buying a painting for themselves, googling the hell out of his work, or picking up a paint brush to figure out how the guy does it.  Whether you like his work or not, it’s hard to avoid his influence in the generation of figurative painters that has followed his wake.

Malcolm T. Liepke, “Resting Redhead,” Oil on Canvas, 22″ x 34″

This HAS to be one of the very first transparencies ever produced for Arcadia Gallery.  This is for a hand drawn lithograph from the very last series of prints ever produced by Malcolm T. Liepke.  It was the same lithography process that Toulouse Lautrec used in the 19th century.  When the giclee print was embraced by the mainstream (mall) art market in 2001, it literally killed the print market over night.  This great litho from Liepke marks the end of an era.

Malcolm T. Liepke, “Alone Together,” Hand Drawn Lithograph

Only 5 copies left of the Liepke Retrospective and APVM dvd combo for our April Fools promotion–

The first 50 people who respond to this special Facebook offer,
will be able to buy “Liepke: A Retrospective” 300-Page, coffee table book
for a special discounted rate of only $75.00 plus $25 shipping AND a free copy of
Michael Klein’s masterful American Painting Video Magazine DVD Vol. 1
featuring extended profiles on painters Brad Kunkle, Daniel Sprick, and Michael Grimaldi.
The Liepke Retrospective book is normally $125 plus $25 shipping in the US.
FOR THE FIRST 50 PEOPLE who call Arcadia Gallery at 212-965-1387 and order!!!
Get the book AND the DVD………Only an April Fool would pass up this offer. No joke.
Call Now: 212-965-1387
(This offer is only valid within the United States.)

Here is a gem from Malcolm T. Liepke’s latest show “A Return To Beauty.” Featuring a quintessential Liepke beauty by way of Marie Antoinette, this piece is an instant classic.

“Off Her Shoulder,” Oil on Linen, 20″ x 16″

The paintings are hung and the lights are in position. The new Malcolm T. Liepke exhibition show- “A Return To Beauty” is ready for its grand opening tomorrow. This show is a total “game changer” for Malcolm T. Liepke, and seeing the work on the walls of the gallery is a reminder of why he has the international reputation he so richly deserves.

We strongly recommend seeing it for yourself tomorrow, Saturday December 11th, from 2pm to 6pm and come say hello to the man himself, and witness some of the most eloquently luscious oils to grace the walls of Arcadia Gallery….EVER.