NEW YORK, NY.- The American Art Fair returns to the historic Bohemian National Hall from May 10 to 13, 2025 with 17 preeminent exhibitors specializing in American art. Celebrating its eighteenth year, the event will offer a compelling array of hundreds of paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture from the 18th to the 21st centuries. A lecture series featuring leading scholars and curators in American art will be held on Saturday, May 10 and Sunday, May 11, 2025 and is open to all fair visitors.

With experts embracing the canon of American art, the Fair focuses on works by nonliving American artists. Admission is free, and collectors, curators and the curious can explore exemplary offerings of Folk art, Hudson River School, American Impressionism, Surrealism, Regionalism, Modernism, Postwar Abstraction, and more. Familiar favorites, like John Singer Sargent and Andrew Wyeth, keep company with underrecognized and newly rediscovered artists. The Fair’s prestigious roster of exhibitors are leading specialists in the field; among them are some of the oldest galleries in the country. Together, they present American art’s pluralities, showing coexistent artistic movements, academically trained and self-taught artists, and art from across the Americas.

Continuing as exhibitors are Adelson Galleries, Avery Galleries, Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, D. Wigmore Fine Art, David A. Schorsch-Eileen M. Smiles, Debra Force Fine Art, Graham Shay 1857, Forum Gallery, Hawthorne Fine Art, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Questroyal Fine Art, Schwarz Gallery, and Thomas Colville Fine Art. Vose Galleries returns this year, alongside first-time exhibitors ACA Galleries, Hollis Taggart, and Robert Simon Fine Art. Thomas Colville, the Fair’s founder remarks, “the combined expertise of our exhibitors— who include America’s longest-established galleries—is unmatched. Their knowledge and experience draw curators and collectors to Manhattan in May to celebrate American art.”

The country’s oldest gallery, established in 1841, Vose Galleries will be showing one of the “newest” works at the Fair, Wolf Kahn’s scintillating Blue Runs Through It (2004). Founded in 1932, ACA Galleries is bringing select 19th and 20th century landscapes, including a mesmerizing Romare Bearden oil painting with collage. Old Masters dealer Robert Simon Fine Art delves into the eighteenth century with works by the Peruvian Cuzco School, including the intimate Young Christ Pricked by a Thorn (Niño de la Espina), as well as a 1790s Portrait of George Washington by Charles Peale Polk. Folk art specialist David A. Schorsch-Eileen M. Smiles returns for a third year with Folk portraits, sculpture, and works on paper. Forum Gallery is bringing the leather-tooled narrative works of Winfred Rembert, while Fair newcomer Hollis Taggart will highlight Abstract Expressionist artists such as Joan Mitchell and Norman Carton.

Field stalwarts Hirschl & Adler Galleries will feature Reginald Marsh’s sharp-witted scene, Cocktails—5 to 7 (1940), and an arresting oil portrait of a young girl by American Impressionist Lilla Cabot Perry. Masterful watercolors by John Singer Sargent, Andrew Wyeth, and John Marin will be among the offerings at Adelson Galleries, Debra Force Fine Art, and Questroyal Fine Art, where a luminous oils by Hudson River School artists Sanford Robinson Gifford and Francis Augustus Silva also can be spotted.

Thomas Colville comments: “integral to our commitment to historic American art is our lecture series by leading curators and scholars on current exhibitions and new research. On Saturday, we begin with Sarah Humphreville on Gertrude Abercombie, whose first retrospective since 1991 is at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh through June 1 before travelling to Colby College Museum of Art in Maine, then to the Milwaukee Art Museum. Claire Mosier will present new research on Emil Bisttram. On Sunday, Stephanie Herdrich will speak on her much-anticipated exhibition Sargent and Paris, currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Closing our lectures is Valerie Ann Leeds on another American in Paris, Julius LeBlanc Stewart.”