Sentences with phrase «important early modernist»

At The Painting Space I found out about a very exciting exhibition planned for next year (February to May 2012) at the Courtauld Gallery, London, exploring the relationship between two important early modernist, abstract painters Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson.

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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.

German - born Bluemner was an important member of the modernist circle that formed around Alfred Stieglitz's galleries, 291 and the Intimate Gallery, in the early twentieth century.

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).

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.

Standalone works and smaller ensembles of superb quality give visitors an insight into the important modernist movements of the early 20th century.

The results owe something to Milton Avery and Alex Katz, revere nature and revisit the important role of landscape painting in early modernist abstraction.

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).

An important influence on the development of American art during the early 20th century was the American photographer, editor, and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz (1864 - 1946), later the husband of artist Georgia O'Keeffe, who - with the help of his close colleague Edward Steichen (1879 - 1973)- devoted much of his energy to promoting fine art photography as well as modernist painting and sculpture in the New York area.

Among the many artists whom she met at the time, Fairfield Porter, older and more established, became especially important to her, as his commitment to modernist representational painting supported her return to landscape painting Wilson's career as an artist began to take off in the early 1960s.