Dash, Freilicher, Porter & Wilson at The Drawing Room Gallery

The Drawing Room, 66H Newtown Lane in East Hampton, will open a show on October 30 presenting the works of Robert Dash, Jane Freilicher, Fairfield Porter and Jane Wilson in an exhibition that highlights four venerated American artists unified by their attraction to the rural panoramas they discovered on Long Island's East End. Works on view range from Fairfield Porter's sketchbook pages of the 1960s and 1970s to intimate and large-scale landscape paintings by Jane Wilson, Jane Freilicher and Robert Dash.

Since the late 19th century artists have migrated to the eastern tip of the island, establishing a cultural legacy central to the region’s identity. In the mid-20th century, when Abstract Expressionism dominated the New York art world, the painters in this show established an alternative course for artists interested in expanding the realist tradition in work rooted in observation. Strong alliances developed among these painters as they repaired from New York City to the bucolic farmlands and beaches of the Atlantic coast. Here the light, long horizons and distinctly American culture provided a pictorial frankness that was both in sync with and separate from the ethos of the New York School.

The show will be on view through December 7.

For more information, visit drawingroom-gallery.com or call (631) 324-5016.

[caption id="attachment_45181" align="alignnone" width="800"] Jane Wilson. Remembered Day Peconic.[/caption]