Peter Findlay Gallery

The Peter Findlay Gallery specializes in 19th and 20th century European paintings, sculptures, and prints. They buy and sell works of art by some of the greatest masters: Degas, Monet, Picasso, and many others. You can see this leading gallery when you visit with your car rental in Queens.

Gallery history

When you visit with your rental car Queens, you might learn that the gallery was born in the late 1800s in Kansas City Missouri. William Wadsworth Findlay began the Findlay Gallery here at a time when Missouri was still the “Gateway to the West” and people would generally go to the market for things they needed. This was an opportunity to buy art. As people moved west, they wanted art for their homes, and the Findlays were able to provide this. At the turn of the century, they took a chance with two young artists - Charles Russell and Frederic Remington. Today, they are considered two of the best artists of the west and are shown in world-famous museums. By the 1960s, the Findlays expanded to cities such as Chicago, New York, and Paris. Today, you will find impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern works of art here when you visit with your Queens car rental.

Understanding the art

When you are here with your car rental Queens, you will learn a lot about the type of art that is here. Impressionism was a 19th century movement in the late 1800s. The name comes from a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise. The characteristics of this type of work is that there are visible brush strokes, open composition, and an emphasis on light in its changing qualities. The Peter Findlay Gallery also specializes in post-impressionist art, which describes art since Manet. They use vivid colors, thick application of the paint, distinctive brush stroke, and real life subjects. However, there is often more use of geometric forms to distort the picture.

Art in New York

New York has literally thousands of art museums in the city, big and small. What is so great about this city is that you can wonder in and out of small galleries for a long time, and never see the same thing twice. If you are looking for a particular area in the city to do this, you might want to try Chelsea with your car rental in Queens. There are more than 350 galleries in this small area, including the Chelsea Art Museum. They are located at the corner of 11th Avenue and West 22nd Street when you visit with your rental van. They are open Tuesday through Saturday form 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., and open until 8 p.m. on Thursday. Admission is $8 for adults, $4 for students and seniors, and free for those under 15. The Chelsea Art Museum is a contemporary art museum, as well as the home of the Miotte Foundation. The museum focuses on art of the 20th and 21st century. They have a permanent collection of 500 works of art, including paintings, etchings, sculpture, ceramics, tapestries, and works on paper. The Miotte Foundation is specifically dedicated to Jean Miotte and his works that he did in his SoHo studio.

When you are here with your car rental in Queens, you will find the Peter Findlay Gallery is a small place with some big works of art. They specialize in buying and selling works of some of the great impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern masters. They started as a small western art gallery at the turn of the century, and today have locations in Chicago, New York, and Paris.

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