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Publisher
Edition Stemmle
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"Vance Kirkland (Ohio, 1904 - Denver, 1981) was a fine, mysterious American painter whose unique abstract methods were not discovered and appreciated until after he died. During the first half of his fifty-four year career, he was nationally famous in America for his masterful realist and surrealist watercolor, gouache and casein paintings and he exhibited with such artists as Dali, Ernst, Margritte and Miro. The abrupt transition to abstraction and...
Author
Publisher
Giles, an Imprint of D Giles Limited
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Art of Winold Reiss brings to light the creative and forward-thinking work of this German-born artist. Winold Reiss (1886-1953) arrived in New York in 1913, the year of the ground-breaking Armory Show. The exhibition shook the American art scene to its core and ushered in a radically new artistic sensibility, whilst Reiss's exuberant, dynamic designs anticipated the American passion for the new European avant-garde art. Steeped in a German aesthetic,...
Author
Publisher
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles artist Sylvia Shap has claimed as her domain the art of portraiture. Her life-sized portraits of contemporary men, women, and children are precisely rendered and confrontational in the sense that her subjects always look out directly at the viewer. We notice immediately that the model is cognizant of their presence in Shap's compositions."--Jim Edwards, page 11
Author
Publisher
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The fascinating story of the transformation of American watercolor practice between 1866 and 1925. The formation of the American Watercolor Society in 1866 by a small, dedicated group of painters transformed the perception of what had long been considered a marginal medium. Artists of all ages, styles, and backgrounds took up watercolor in the 1870s, inspiring younger generations of impressionists and modernists. By the 1920s many would claim it as...
Author
Publisher
The Jewish Museum
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A new look at the art of one of the most charming and idiosyncratic personalities of early 20th-century New York, Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944). Stettheimer was a New York original: a society lady who hosted an avant-garde salon in her Manhattan home, a bohemian and a flapper, a poet, a theater designer, and above all an influential painter with a sharp satirical wit. Stettheimer collaborated with Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson, befriended (and...
Author
Publisher
Inventory Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Mary Corse (born 1945) earned acclaim in the 1960s for pieces ranging from shaped-canvas paintings to light works. Corse has dedicated the decades since to establishing a practice at the crossroads of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism.