FEBRUARY BRINGS THE ABRIDGED “WORLD CRISIS” AND A NEW ART EXHIBIT

February is the publication anniversary of the abridged edition of Winston Churchill’s monumental six-volume history of the First World War, The World Crisis. Abridgment (by Churchill himself) rendered his World Crisis far more accessible to a wider readership. Churchill also wrote new material and made consequential revisions for this abridgment, including a new Foreword and a new chapter on the Battle of the Marne. Unlike most (but not all) of Churchill’s book-length works, the abridged World Crisis was published in the U.S. first (on February 6, 1931), making it the true first edition. 

We thought we would commemorate this act of accessibility  by celebrating the restored accessibility of our lobby gallery, after two years of lobby obstruction here at Park Avenue Plaza, with a new art exhibit, Peter Clancy: A Retrospective, alongside our ongoing exhibition of framed Churchilliana.

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We cordially invite you to an opening reception for
Peter Clancy: A Retrospective
at Chartwell Booksellers
Wednesday evening, February 12, 2025, from 6:00-8:00 PM.
In the lobby of the Park Avenue Plaza building
55 East 52nd Street (between Park & Madison Avenues).
~RSVP by clicking here.~

Peter Clancy has been making art and viewing art as an abiding preoccupation for over fifty years, mostly selling his work privately and creating works on commission. His influences are Schwitters, Rauschenberg, Malevich, Bernini, Motherwell, Tiepolo, Cornell, Bacon and the Starn Twins. The art of assemblage and found objects continues to spark his creativity, as it has since he was 17 and first demonstrating his skill for drawing. He came to see a certain lonely poetry in discarded objects, aging and yellowed printed matter, and sites of industrial decay. At the same time, he also enjoyed the academic rigor of naturalistic drawing. He sums up his work by quoting a long-ago Turkish art teacher who once said to him: “Style? Style is what you are feeling like these days.”