COSMOS GALLERY RETAIL
First products: Vintage books, catalogues, memorabilia for Avery, Rothko, Gottlieb
COSMOS Gallery is located at 20 Pleasant Street in downtown Gloucester.
During exhibitions the gallery is open Thursday–Sunday, 12:00–5:00 pm and by appointment.
To contact the gallery, please email info@capeanncosmos.com.
Featured Vintage Catalogues
The Drawings of Milton Avery
Written by Burt Chernow, with foreword by Sally Avery
Published by Taplinger, 1984
Two copies available at COSMOS Gallery: $45 and $25 (lesser quality).
“Milton Avery is now recognized as one of the major American artists of this century. Yet in his lifetime he was almost constantly misunderstood or neglected by critics. Important and timely, this handsome book offers the first critical selection of Avery’s drawings and shows show they were fundamental to his art.
Avery, a superb draftsman and a tireless worker, drew daily not only to maintain eye and hand coordination, but also to catch the immediacy of his vision. His drawings were the lifeblood of his art and provided the direct subjects of his paintings.”
—Burt Chernow
Adolph Gottlieb: Works on Paper
Essay by April Kingsley
Exhibition organized by Sanford Hirsch for the Art Museum Association of America and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
Published by Art Museum Association of America, 1985
Superb quality, many images, color and b/w.
One copy available, $75
“Like Matisse, Gottlieb believed that great colorists needed only a few colors, great draftsmen only a few shapes. He wanted his work to be succinct and to the point....In his mature images he achieved what he saw as the quintessence of abstract art – the reduction to a simple resonating object that embodies maximum complexity.”
—April Kingsley
Mark Rothko
The Realist Years: Selected Works
Essay by Klaus Kertess
Published by PaceWildenstein, 2001
One copy available: $49
“In 1932, Rothkowitz, his new wife, Edith, and the Gottliebs spent their summer vacation together in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, near the Averys, whom they often visited in Gloucester.” Catalogue includes discussion of paintings from this period.”
—Klaus Kertess