This year, the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair (18 – 28 June) was delighted to host a special loan exhibition from the private collection of Dr. Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield, ‘There’s no place like home’; a curated show of works by celebrated American Regionalist artists. The collection’s first public exhibition outside of the US offered the fair’s 29,500-strong audience an opportunity to view 44 important works by leading artists of the Regionalist genre, including Thomas Hart Benton, Joe Jones, John Atherton, John Rogers Cox and Steuart Curry. Whilst well-known in their native USA, these artists were a revelation for British audiences. Dr Cara Rodway, Assistant Head of the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, was moved by the show, stating it “offered an engaging overview of the Regionalist school, highlighting key actors in the field, methods, techn
