New York, Whitney Museum of American Art opens two parallel shows

Smith & Taylor: Focus on Two Special Artists

On October 4, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York will open two parallel exhibitions, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith and Henry Taylor: B Side, offering perspectives on art more rarely seen in museums.

October 04, 2023
Henry Taylor, Untitled, 2020
Private collection. © Henry Taylor. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photograph by Zachary Balber
Henry Taylor, Untitled, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 60 1/8 × 84 1/8 in. (152.7 × 213.7 cm)

From October 4, 2023, through January 28, 2024, two exhibitions will be on view in parallel at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. One is Henry Taylor: B Side, about the painter and sculptor born in Los Angeles in 1958 and known for his experimental figurative works. He has attracted particular attention so far for his portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama and Jay-Z, among others, but his genre paintings of life as a black person in the U.S. are also increasingly coming into focus. This exhibition, with more than 130 exhibits from the late 1980s to the present, is the largest to date on Taylor's work.

For its second show, the museum has a premiere in store: Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith is his first ever solo exhibition. Harry Smith (1923-1991), sometimes called a polymath, was an artist, experimental filmmaker, and musicologist, among other things. Here, the Whitney Museum brings together paintings, drawings, experimental films, designs, and objects from his collection such as string games and found paper airplanes. Smith's artwork is influenced by the esoteric and the fantastic, and developed an aesthetic outside the established forms of the 20th century. His goal was to distill and reveal universal structures from all disciplines.Art.Salon

Harry Smith, Untitled, c. 1952
Lionel Ziprin Archive, New York
Harry Smith, Untitled, c. 1952. Watercolor and ink on paper, 9 x 6 in. (22.9 x 15.2 cm)

Recent auction results of Henry Taylor

Henry Taylor - Kalika
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21st Century Evening Sale
May 2024
Christies, Hong Kong
Est.: 2.000.000 - 3.000.000 HKD
Realised: not sold
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Henry Taylor - C&H
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21st Century Evening Sale
May 2024
Christies, New York
Est.: 400.000 - 600.000 USD
Realised: 504.000 USD
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Henry Taylor - Portrait of Cassi Amanda Gibson (no relation to Bob,)
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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session
May 2024
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 80.000 - 120.000 USD
Realised: not available
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Henry Taylor - Daniella Stienfeld
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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session
May 2024
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 80.000 - 120.000 USD
Realised: not available
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Henry Taylor - Deana Lawson - Artist
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Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale
May 2024
Christies, New York
Est.: 300.000 - 500.000 USD
Realised: 441.000 USD
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Henry Taylor - Untitled
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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session
May 2024
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 70.000 - 100.000 USD
Realised: 101.600 USD
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Henry Taylor - To Be Titled
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New Now
March 2024
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 5.000 - 7.000 USD
Realised: 4.826 USD
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Henry Taylor - Government Cheese
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20th Century & Contemporary Art, Evening Sale Part II
November 2023
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 100.000 - 150.000 USD
Realised: 177.800 USD
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Henry Taylor - \
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21st Century Evening Sale
November 2023
Christies, New York
Est.: 300.000 - 500.000 USD
Realised: 819.000 USD
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Henry Taylor - I Relate to Amy H
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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session
November 2023
Phillips, New York Auction
Est.: 60.000 - 80.000 USD
Realised: 95.250 USD
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