BRIDGEHAMPTON, N.Y.—After its successful debut last summer, ArtHamptons is back and better than ever — encouraging news given that its neighboring fair, Scope Hamptons, canceled its 2009 edition. "We have more photography, sculpture, contemporary art, Asian art and prints this year," says executive director Rick Friedman, who notes that seven new galleries are expected in addition to the 50 returning participants.

Manhattan’s Spanierman Gallery plans to offer the hard-edge abstractions of Neil Williams for between $12,000 and $100,000. An artist’s artist largely unknown to the wider public, Williams once shared a studio with Frank Stella in Sagaponack, on Long Island; the gallery’s East Hampton outpost will host a concurrent exhibition of his work.

Among other New York City entrants are Eli Klein Fine Art, which is bringing work by contemporary Chinese artists, such as Jiang Huan’s photorealist canvases and the Luo Brothers’ Pop collage-paintings, priced from $10,000 to $250,000; and Hirschl & Adler, which is showing contemporary realist pieces, including Alexander Creswell’s undated Antigua Classics — Eleonora on the Downwind Run. Also featured at the latter dealer’s booth is Mark Rothko’s Red Abstract, 1944.

The Los Angeles dealer Peter Fetterman has pictures by the fashion photographer Lillian Bassman — a contemporary of Irving Penn and Richard Avedon whom ArtHamptons is honoring, along with the American painter Jane Wilson and the French-American photographer Elliott Erwitt, with a lifetime achievement award. Fetterman also has images by the Brazilian lensman Sebastião Salgado, starting at $2,000. "Without our East Coast clients we’d be nothing," Fetterman says, explaining his presence at the fair. "And I get to wear a seersucker jacket!"

"Maritime Art" originally appeared in the July/August 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's July/August 2009 Table of Contents.