Sentences with phrase «american early modernist»

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Late 19th - century Americans like Augustus Vincent Tack and Albert Pinkham Ryder, along with early American Modernists like Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, and Milton Avery's landscapes also provided important precedents and were influences on the Abstract Expressionists, the Color Field painters, and the Lyrical Abstractionists.

Butler's title for the show is Precisionist Casual, which invokes the early American modernist movement, Precisionism, which was practiced by Charles Sheeler and Charles Demuth, as well as the New Casualists, a term she coined in an essay published in The Brooklyn Rail (June 2011):

Framed by Gill & Lagodich in a custom - made variation of an early 20th - century American Modernist painting frame; simple, flat artist - made construction; painted wood, antiqued gesso, stone gray patina; molding width: 6» Museum purchase funded by the John R. Eckel, Jr..

Night Vision is organized chronologically beginning with landscape artists» visions of moonlight, moving to early Modernists» experimental representations of electrified evenings, and concluding with interpretations of the night by American realists and abstract artists.

James Siena's paintings are compact, intricate, finely crafted and geometric but at the same time very idiosyncratic abstractions, distantly related to early American modernists (he invokes Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley and Georgia O'Keefe as cherished ancestors).

His early 1950s works, painted in a European Modernist style, often show originally «American» subject matters such as scenes of western expansion.

At the gallery's 293 Tenth Avenue location, «Robert Motherwell: Early Paintings» examines the lesser - known, experimental abstractions of the artist's pre - «Elegy» years.1 Around the corner at Kasmin's 515 West Twenty - seventh Street venue, «Caro & Olitski: 1965 — 1968, Painted Sculptures and the Bennington Sprays» looks to the personal friendship and creative dialogue between sculptor and painter.2 And finally, up the block at the gallery's 297 Tenth Avenue address, in «The Enormity of the Possible,» the independent curator Priscilla Vail Caldwell brings the first generation of American modernists together with some of the later Abstract Expressionists — Milton Avery, Oscar Bluemner, Charles Burchfield, Stuart Davis, John Marin, Elie Nadelman, and Helen Torr, among others, with Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.3

The 1940s in New York City heralded the triumph of American Abstract expressionism, a modernist movement that combined lessons learned from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Surrealism, Joan Miró, Cubism, Fauvism, and early Modernism via great teachers in America such as Hans Hofmann from Germany and John D. Graham from Ukraine.

The 1940s in New York City heralded the triumph of American abstract expressionism, a Modernist movement that combined lessons learned from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, surrealism, Joan Miró, cubism, Fauvism, and early modernism via great teachers in America like Hans Hofmann and John D. Graham.

Rather than feature the work of only a few artists or selected stylistic movements, the early Whitney aimed to convey the breadth and diversity of American art, from conservative portraiture to modernist abstraction.

Other strengths of the twentieth - century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson and Ralston Crawford; a good showing by the American Scene painters Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter's celebrated five - panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).

Descended in the Zorach family, this lyrical painting enhances VMFA's survey of modernist art and increases the number of independent early - 20th - century women — «instinctive rebels» (in the words of Zorach's daughter) such as Georgia O'Keeffe and Florine Stettheimer — in the American art collection.

Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 — June 24, 1964), was an early American modernist painter.

Abstraction Across America, 1934 - 1946 explores two contemporaneous but geographically and philosophically distinct groups of early American modernists who laid the groundwork for abstract expressionism; the American Abstract Artists (AAA) and the Transcendental Painting Group (TPG).

Mangold's woodcuts premiering for the first time are also presented in conversation with works such as Movement in White, Umber, and Cobalt Green (1950) by early American modernist John Marin (1870 — 1953), known for his abstract landscapes, and with Duet and Murmur (2014), New York — based contemporary artist Cheonae Kim's (1952 ---RRB- paintings from her linear black - and - white series.

Opening: «Folk Art and American Modernism» at the American Folk Art Museum The American Folk Art Museum may be in smaller quarters after selling its Midtown building to MoMA, but it proves that it can still pack a punch with this show about the relationship between the development of the modern art movement in America and the folk art collections of many modernists in the early part of the 20th century.

It is for this reason that on the basis of this retrospective alone one could almost write a comprehensive chronicle of the esthetic relationships that have tethered the fate of American modernist painting in the last half of the 20th century to the precedents and standards of modernist painting in Paris in the early decades of the century.

The monochromatic sculptural pieces, like Giallo Cromo (1961), recall, instead, the modernist work of Louise Nevelson, the American sculptor who, in fact, made her European debut right at that time, in the early 60s.

Whereas the then - fashionable neo-Expressionists combined images pastiched from eclectic cultural sources with a loose painterly style, Jensen renewed the symbolist impulse that fueled the work of late American Romantics and early American Modernists such as Albert Pinkham Ryder and Marsden Hartley without resorting to parody or kitsch.

Spanning the period between 1828 to 1945, the exhibition opens with the earliest form of American maritime painting — the grand academic - style portraits of graceful sailing ships — and includes waterscapes from the sea to the lakes and rivers of the American heartland, light - flooded impressionist visions of quaint New England seaside towns, and modernist renderings of industrial waterfronts and everyday life on the water

On the fifth floor, the colorful paintings of Shara Hughes push natural forms toward feverish abstraction using the Fauves and early American modernists like Charles Burchfield.

His early work features broad, calm rectangles in the manner of the American Color Field painters, but Hoyland's distinctive contribution has been to break with the modernist insistence on a flat surface and to put perspective back into abstract painting: his mature work is characterised by depth and texture, in which strange objects float in the foreground or middle distance, against an often mysterious background, in a way that is oddly reminiscent of Miro.

Rather, these are studio creations, more indebted to American Modernist landscape paintings than Mother Nature... Referencing the pictorial language of late - 19th and early - 20th century landscape painting might seem a convoluted way to create imagery that purports to be urgently personal.

In the early 1900s, the house was occupied by the American modernist sculptor Gaston LaChaise (Jackson Pollock and Isamu Noguchi worked down the block); then it belonged for a time to the artist Jeff Koons, who used it as an office and studio.

The Tantric Way highlights the parallels between Tantric art and the early twentieth - century modernist abstractions of Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, Constantin Brancusi and Robert Delaunay, as well as the affinities between the post-war American painters Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman and the work of Indian artist Biren De.22 The latter was one of the leading members of a group of «neo-Tantric» artists newly promoted by New Delhi gallerist Virendra Kumar Jain, the older brother of Tantra Art's publisher, Ravi Kumar.23

SAN FRANCISCO — Ruth Asawa, a San Francisco sculptor recognized as a major post-WWII American modernist for her intricate hanging wire creations, died early Tuesday, her daughter Addie Lanier said.

Several important modernist pieces, in addition to the Hopper, are contained in the bequest, including works by Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and Horace Pippin, and earlier American works by Thomas Cole and Albert Pinkham Ryder.

An artwork in pencil and gouache on paper, attributed to the early American modernist painter Stuart Davis (1892 - 1964), titled Abstract, measuring about 20 inches by 25 inches, topped out at $ 3,750.

The career of John Marin (1870 - 1953) was bookended by the American Modernists, in the 1930s, and the Abstract Expressionists, in the early 1950s.

The quirky (and clearly illegal) «art bar» reprised an earlier effort, by four Austrian artists - in - residence at the MAK Center, to turn one of the carports in Rudolph Schindler's modernist, Mid-City apartment building into an approximate replica of Vienna's Adolf Loos - designed American Bar.

Although the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have sought for decades to acquire this work, Ebsworth gave the bulk of his early American modernist holdings to SAM.

In the early fifties planar abstractionists, like Newman and Rothko, stuck with their hard or soft geometry formats, working beyond the constructive devices of cubism and setting the agenda for the next generation of American painters, the sixties high modernists.

A member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) and a founding member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA), the gallery deals in Post-War and Contemporary art, including Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, and early 20th - century British and American artists, with an emphasis on the Grosvenor School and British Modernists, Provincetown Printers, American art of the 1920s - 1940s, and the best of children's book artists.

June 21 - September 27, 2009 The first comprehensive exhibition in the United States of this Latin American pioneering artist, the show examines the rise of modernist abstraction in Latin America — underscoring both the similarities and differences between Europe and South America — and chronicles Matto's early work made as a student...

The museum also houses the largest collection of the early American modernist William Glackens, a member of the socially progressive Ashcan School, who was instrumental in fostering modern art in America.

Biography: Balcomb Greene was a one of the leaders of the early American Modernist movement of the 1930s.

Balcomb Greene was a one of the leaders of the early American Modernist movement of the 1930s.

The Philadelphia - based painter Arthur B. Carles (1882 - 1952) was among the early - bird American modernists who picked up hot - off - the - palette art trends in Europe and brought them winging back home.

Blake will bring European and American artists of several different generations — including well - known contemporary artists such as Mike Kelley, Katharina Fritsch, Christian Marclay, Ken Price, Philip Guston, and Cindy Sherman — together with a number of under - appreciated and / or rarely exhibited figures, among them the comic strip artists Ernie Bushmiller, George Herriman, and Kaz, Nancy Grossman, the early American modernist sculptor Gaston Lachaise, Thomas Lanigan - Schmidt, as well as anonymous folk artists.

The wide historical spectrum of artists» works on view includes Old Masters; Japanese prints; 19th and early 20th century American masters; European Impressionists and Modernists, as well as German Expressionists.

[2] She came to know the many early American modernists who were part of Stieglitz's circle of artists, including Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Paul Strand, and Edward Steichen.

Several important paintings by American modernist Stuart Davis (1892 — 1964) are housed in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, including an early self - portrait painted in 1912 and a work from his Egg Beater series, Egg Beater No. 2 (1928).

«Joseph Solman, a painter who, with Mark Rothko and other modernists, helped shape American art as early as the 1930s and, into a new century, continued to paint in his studio above the Second Avenue Deli in New York, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan,» Michael Kimmelman writes in the NY Times obituary.

Calder is one of only a few early American modernists to hold status as a global artist, exceeding constraining categorizations such as nationality.

Peters» sculptural language draws from diverse iconographic influences which include Assyrian antiquities, Greco - Roman tragedy masks, Egyptian funerary figures and Cypriotic portraits, as well as the work of Elie Nadelman, early American folk art, Constantin Brâncusi, and early modernist figuration.

Her early works were representational but by 1940 she was exhibiting with the American Abstract Artists and gaining a reputation as a younger - generation modernist.

He also gave the first one - man shows to the early generation of American modernists, including Alfred Maurer, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, Arthur B. Carles, Oscar Bluemner, Elie Nadelman, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Stanton Macdonald - Wright.

All the major American artists and works from the seventeenth century to today are included, such as epic history paintings by Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley; sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Church; society portraits by John Singer Sargent; groundbreaking abstract expressionist and pop art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Andy Warhol; and challenging sculptural, installation, and video works from more recent years by Robert Gober, Fred Wilson, and Matthew Barney In architecture, dozens of different building types are illustrated and discussed, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist houses, stations, museums, and iconic skyscrapers.

The Ashmolean Museum's latest exhibition examines this early 20th century American pride and optimism; but also touches on something potentially frightening about the Precisionist painters» expression of that «Modernist soul».

Influenced by European art movements of the early twentieth century, American Modernists including the Precisionist Charles Sheeler and Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb emphasize the industrial, the international, or the psychological through gesture, texture, surface, geometry, shape, form and color.