EXPRESSIONISM 1900-1955

THE WALKER ART CENTER, MINNEAPOLIS

THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY

ART,

BOSTON

THE SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART

THE CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM AND CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER

THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
THE ALBRIGHT ART GALLERY, BUFFALO

BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE WALKER ART CENTER,

MINNEAPOLIS
Donald W. Judkjns (President); Fred V. Nash (First Vice-President); Eleanor
Moen (Second Vice-President); H. H. Arnason (Secretary-Treasurer Museum
Director); Theodore W. Bennett; Hjalmar Bjornson; Winston A. Close; Eleanor
Harris; Louise W. McCannel; Edgar V. Nash; J. E. Ratner; Justin V. Smith;
Malcolm M. Willey; Archie D. Walter; Walter W. Walter; Louis N. Zelle.
Ex officio: Hon. Eric G. Hoyer; George M. Jensen; Dorothy A. Rood.
,

OFFICERS

AND TRUSTEES OF THE INSTITUTE OF

CONTEMPORARY ART, BOSTON

Nelson W. Aldrich (President); James
(Vice-President); Arthur K.

S.

Plaut (Director); Joseph P. Richardson

Solomon (Vice-President); Robert H. Strange

(Treasurer); Mrs. George E. Bates (Secretary); Charles D. Childs; John L.

Gardner; Merrill Griswold; Philip Hofer; Frederic B. Kellog; Mrs. Royal

Little;

Robert T. Mar/^son; Robert D. Patterson; Amelia Peabody; Jerome Rosenjeld;

Nathaniel Saltonstall; John

I.

Taylor.

TRUSTEES OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART

William

W. Crocker (Chairman

of the Board); E. Morris

Cox

(President);

Hector Escobosa (Vice-President); Robert C. Harris (Secretary); Ransom M.

Coo\ (Treasurer); Arthur Brown,

Paul

Eliel; Forrest

Jr.;

Cobb Hale, Jr.; Mrs. E.

Mrs. Henry Potter Russell; Leon
Prentis

Sullivan; Brayton Wilbur;

J.

S. Heller;

)'<>6,

hy

Jr.;

Mrs. Walter A. Haas;

Charles Kendric\; Charles Page;

B. Russell; Albert E. Schlesinger; Mrs. Jerd

D. Zellerbach. Honorary: E. E. Hills; Walter

Martin; Robert Gordon Sproul.

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Gardner Dailey; Dewey Donnell; Mrs.

Engelhart; Mortimer Fleishhac\er,

Walker Art Crnter. Minneapoli.

S.

OFFICERS
John

J.

Rowe,
IV.

E.

AND TRUSTEES OF THE CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM

Emery
Jr.

W. Warrington

(President); John

Adams

(Treasurer); Philip R.

(Vice-President); Stanley

(Director);

Thomas

M.

C. Adler; John

Hay den Chat field; A. Burton Closson; William T. Earls;

W. Edwards; Nelson Gluecf{; John B. Hollister; Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr.;
Becker; William

Walter L. Tingle,

Jr.;

George A. Rentschler; William T. Semple; Albert

P.

Strietmann; Charles P. Taft; Lucien Wulsin.

OFFICERS

AND TRUSTEES OF THE

CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER, CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM

Mrs.

Warner L. Atkins (President); Samuel

F.

Pogue (Vice-President);

Laurence L. Davis (Treasurer); Mrs. John Reid (Assistant Treasurer); Mrs.

William A. Mitchell (Recording Secretary); Mrs.
ing Secretary);

Allon

T.

Schoener (Curator);

Tim

Gallivan (Correspond-

Campbell Crockett;

Julius

Fleischmann; Mrs. Alfred Friedlander; Gustave von Groschwitz; Mrs. Edgar

Mac\,

Jr.;

Mrs.

Thomas Muir; Daniel J. Ransohoff; Mrs.

Ex officio: Philip R. Adams.

Carl A. Strauss.

Emeritus: Miss Marion Hendrie.

EXECUTIVE BOARD AND TRUSTEES OF THE

BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART
Frederick

Scarff;

J.

Singley,

Jr.

(President); Robert G. Merrick

(Executive Vice-

W. Constable; John H.
J.
Mrs. Alvin Thalheimer; Mrs. Harold Holmes Wrenn; Edward M.

President);

Casey (Treasurer); George

William

Benesch; George Boas;

J.

R. Herbert Boone; James Carey, 3rd; Alexander

Cochran; William A. Dickey,

Jr.;

S.

Laurence H. Fowler; Robert Garrett; George

H. Howland; Francis H. fences; Joseph Katz; Sidney Lansburgh; W. L. Marbury, Jr.; Herman Maril; J. G. D'Arcy Paul; Philip B.
Perlman; J. Hall Pleasants; David M. Robinson; Mrs. Harry Slaclt; Miss E. P.
Spencer; Henry E. Treide; Alan Wurtzburger. Ex officio: Hon. Thomas
D'Alesandro, Jr.; Leon Abramson; Walter R. Graham.
B. Hess; Richard

BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY,

ALBRIGHT ART GALLERY
Seymour H. Knox (President); Theodore G.
S. Potter (Treasurer); Samuel D. Magavern
Charles Cary; Harold M. Esty, Jr.; Leston

Keneficl{ (Vice-President); Lars

(Secretary);
P.

Edward H.

Butler;

Faneuf; Clifford C. Furnas;

Laurence R. Coodyear; Nelson M. Graves; A. Wilmot Jacobsen; Theodore C.

Jewett; Bjarne Klaussen;

Nussbaumer; Dexter
B. Taylor;

P.

Norman Mac\

Rumsey;

J.

II;

Rufus W. Meadows; Newell L.

F. Schoell\opJ IV;

David A. Thompson; Franciscus

Visser't

Stuart C. Welch; C. Taylor Wettlaujer; John P.

Franz T. Stone; Reginald

HooJt; Edwin

Wicker.

J.

Weiss;

FOREWORD

The

exhibition Expressionism 1900-1955 continues the selective sur-

vey of

with

modern

The

art

inaugurated by the Walter Art Center in 7953

Classic Tradition In

Contemporary Art. This was

followed in 1954 by the exhibit Reality

ism 1900-1955
it is

is

similar to the first

two

And

Fantasy. Expression-

exhibits of the series in that

an analysis of the development of both European and American

expressionism, broadly defined, during the last

is

fifty- five years.

perhaps the most comprehensive survey of twentieth-century

expressionism yet attempted by any

complete.

number

of f(ey

unavailability of wor\s;

museum and

names were omitted

and the

vast recent

yet

it is

far

its

from

as a result of the

movement

of abstract

expressionism could only be suggested by the inclusion of a

of

This

number

more important exponents. However,

in line with the prin-

The

Classic Tradition, a

ciples outlined in

the introduction to

higher proportion of more recent examples of expressionism

is

included in the present exhibition.

Twentieth-century expressionism embodies so

aspects that

it

a movement.

many and

various

must be termed a tendency or direction rather than

When one

writes of the history of

modern

art with

emphasis on the undoubtedly great contribution of France, the

importance

of

the

expressionistic

direction

Germany, Scandinavia, Belgium, Holland,

(and even France

itself),

as

Italy,

it

developed in

the United States

tends too often to be overlooked or under-

estimated. Yet the present exhibit certainly demonstrates that expres-

sionism has always been one of the great forces of twentieth-century

art; that

today

it is

perhaps the greatest force. Thus,

it

would seem

that such a re-examination as the exhibition Expressionism 1900- 1955

attempts

On

is

long overdue.

behalf of the Board of Directors of the Walker Art Center,

wish to thank the

artists, collectors,

generosity in lending has

particularly indebted to

Walter P. Chrysler,

Jr.

made

dealers

this

due

exhibition possible.

for their continued interest

Our

to the directors of the participating

Grace L.

McCann

and museums whose

We

are

May and Mr.

Mr. and Mrs. Morton D.

their generous loans to the exhibition.

and advice and

special thanks are also

museums, fames

S. Plaut,

Morley, Philip R. Adams, Adelyn D. Breeskjn and

Gordon M. Smith,

for their splendid assistance

and cooperation.

H. H. Amason
Paris,

December 7955

Members

of the Staff responsible for the Exhibition:

Sidney Simon, Director of Exhibition; Huldah Curl, Assistant Director.

Catalog: James

and Nancy

H.

Elliott, Editor;

Mary Ann

Bieter

Miller, editorial assistants;

John Sutherland, design and typography; Eric Sutherland, photography.

INTRODUCTION

In the present exhibition

we have taken

and have applied the term

of strong, individualistic bent,

where

it

was

had been

expressionism to

mean
to

works

particularly evident that the artist's experience of

directly perceived

sought in the works of

art

and urgently communicated.

art

We

life

have

themselves a common-sense definition of

the term.

To

enlarge somewhat on this definition, expressionist art can

way

general be said to express something tangible in the

feeling. Its forcefulness as art arises

on those meanings or contents

ations.

And

canons of

from

taste in

that are distinct

from formal

no norms

trospection. In place of certainty of form, there

mood
is,

an element of searching

It is

characteristic of the expressionist's approach,

in

meaning he

more

violent

whether

so urgently seeks.

emphasize

may

this aspect; or, if

seek to create, through

in paint-

artistic

devices,

works become inseparable from the

Very often he may

dramatic aspect of his subject and use

to

of private in-

more often than

ing or sculpture, that he rely heavily on personal

the

of beauty nor

an almost brutal way.

not,

in

consider-

expressionism that can vie with the singular purity

of the artist's tragic or ecstatic outburst, or his

which

of strong

unequivocal emphasis

its

for this reason there tend to be

in

he

is

all

the

more

form and

means

single out one

at his disposal

mystically inclined, he

color, usually in a

human

context, a mental or internal atmosphere pervaded by one kind of

feeling. In either case

primary importance
the

form

that

the viewer.

is

his

it

to

is

the vividness of the experience that

is

of

him, and the animation of the surface and

most trustworthy means of conveying

this to

Each of the two previous exhibitions

who were

the most central to

the present exhibition. In

and

constructivists

magic

who

realists

1900-1955

German

is

it

best

theme.

our

the stamp of

And Fantasy

summed up
artists

its

had

series

The same

the classic tradition

artists of

Reality

this position. In

its

in

holds true for

was the

it

artists

its

cubists,

Mondrian who occupied

it

was the

surrealists

and

meaning. In Expressionism

such as Kirchner, Schmidt-RottlurT,

Nolde, Barlach, Beckmann and Kokoschka, and Fauve and School

of Paris artists such as Rouault, Soutine, Lipchitz
are

and Picasso who

pioneering figures and ablest exponents. Only slightly

its

central to the orthodoxy of

European expressionism

are the

less

Mex-

icans

Orozco and

More

peripheral are artists like Chagall, Klee, Kandinsky and Ensor,

who

have strong

central to

its

Siqueiros,

affinities

most

and the Americans Marin and Hartley.

with expressionism but are

less

than

characteristic line of development. Finally, there

and Dufy, who are seldom

are artists included, such as Matisse

viewed against the background of passionate or violent statement.

Their

with expressionism are apparent only in certain

affinities

works. These serve to

hibition.

Our hope

cussion of

that the present selection will stimulate dis-

to the artists

group of

difficult to

that, in

the edges of the area defined by the ex-

where the boundaries may be drawn.

With regard
first

is

test

Roszak are

followed the

at various distances,

expressionists, distinctions like those above are

make.

many

who,

It

must

suffice to say in this brief

more

introduction

of their works, Weber, Bloom, Levine, Marini and

closer to the conventional definition of expressionism

than Graves, Shahn, Zerbe, DubufTet or Albright. Included, of

course, are the abstract expressionists represented by de

Hofmann, Burlin and Mathieu, and

Francis and Tovish,

make

their

who

are younger

few

artists,

still

and

Kooning,

like Pearlstein,

just

beginning to

way.
Sidney Simon

Kokoschka: The

Slave, 1920

Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May,

St.

Louis

.,'

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>"

LVIff

1l

Albright:

The Temptation

of

Anthony, 1946
Lent by the artist
St.

Appel:
Personnage Gris, 1953
The Martha ]ac\son
Gallery

Beckmann:
The Fisherwomen,

1948

Mr. and Mrs. Morton D.

May

Bloom:
Torso and Limbs, 1952
Dm hie he r Brothers

Chagall:
Snow-Covered Church,
[925

The
Arts

Detroit Institute of

Congdon:
Istanbul No.

The

6, 1953
Betty Parsons Gallery

Corinth:
Protected by Armor, 1915
Mrs. Charlotte Corinth

Dubuffet:

Two

Figures in a

Landscape, 1949
The Sidney funis Gallery

Dufy:
Paris, 1937

Collection of Mr. Waltt

P. Chrysler, Jr.

<c vf-

'

-.

/*/-

-mi

Ensor:

Le Pouilleux, 1910
Mr. and Mrs. Eric
Goldsmith

Feininger:

Trumpeter

in the Village,

1915
Estate of the artist

Epstein:
Portrait of Einstein, 1933

Mr. Joseph Hirshhorn

Graves:

Wounded
Mr. John

Sea Gull, 1943

'Newberry, Jr.

S.

Grosz:

The

Little Murderer, 1918

Lent by the artist

Hartley:

The Fisherman's

Last

Supper, 1938
lone and Hudson Walker

Hofer:

The

Farewell,

c.

kji

Mr. and Mrs. Morton

I).

May

'

f/77

'

IJbft ''-#*

***'

V^4
Kinigstein:
Piazza di Spagna, 1954
The Alan Gallery

Kirch ner:

The

Circus Rider, 1913

Mr. ami Mrs. Morton D.

May

Klee:

On

the

Lawn, 1923

Marian Willard Johnson

ICokosi hka:

Fran Erfurt,

\<)2i

Mr. David Daniels

Kolbe:
Grief,

\i>2<>

Mr. and Mrs. Erich Colin

W.

de

Kooning:

Two Women,

95.4-55

The Martha ]ac\son

Gallery

4o*i

Kuniyoshi:
Mother and Daughter,
1945

Carnegie Institute

Lebrun:
Rooster on

The
I

The Ann

(it

Cross, [950

acq ucs Seligmann and

Company

Inc.

Levine:

Lipton:

Neighborhood Physician,

Jungle Bloom No.

'939

Lent by the

The Walter Art Center

Marini:
Bull, 1953

The Martha ]ac\son

Gallery

artist

2,

195s

Meidner:
Burning City, 1913
Mr. and Mrs. Morton D.

May

Nolde:

The Mulatto, 1915

The Busch-Reisinger

Museum

Bacon:
Portrait of a Businessman, 1955

Durlachcr Brothers

Chagall:

The Flying Fish,

The Albright Art

iiq.N

Gallery

GlACOMETTi:

Head of Diego, 1954

Collection of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Zadol(

Katzman:
Brooklyn Bridge, 1951-52

The Downtown Gallery

Marc:

The Blue Horses, 191

The \Val\er Art Center

Schiele:
Portrait of Paris von

Guetersloh, 1918

The Minneapolis
of Arts

Institute

Matisse:

Blue Nude,

c.

1907

The Baltimore Museum

of

Art

Orozco:
The Cemetery, 1931

The Museum

of

Modern

Art

Pechstein:
Indian and

Woman,

1910

Mr. and Mrs. Morton D.

May

Pedersen:

Chinese Landscape, 1950

Lent by the artist

Picasso:

Grande Danseuse, 1907

Collection of Mr. Walter
P. Chrysler, Jr.

Picasso:

The Mother, iyoi

The City Art Museum
oj St. Louis

Picasso:
Still

Life with Cherries,

1943

Mr. and Mrs. Morton

May

I).

Roszak:
Invocation No.

The

I, 1947
Pierre Matisse

Gallery

Rouault:

The Judges, c. 1907

The Portland Art

Museum

Schmidt-Rottluff:
Landscape, 1913

Mr. and Mrs. Morton D.

May

Shahn:
Six, 1952

The Baltimore Museui

of

Art

Soutine:
Peasant Roy, 19 19
Collection of Mr.

and

Mrs. Ralph F. Colin

Soutine:

Gorge du Loup, N.D.

The

Phillips Collection

Sutherland:
Crucifixion, 1947

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L.

Cardozo

Zerbe:
Portrait of Kokosclika,

1949

The Alan

Gallery

CATALOG OF THE EXHIBITION

LENDERS

The

l/an Gallery;

Mr. Ivan Albright; The Baltimore

Museum; Mr. and Mrs. Robert

Paul Burlin; The Busch-Reisinger

Carnegie Institute; Collection oj Mr. Walter P. Chrysler,

of St. Louis;

Mr. and Mrs. Erich Cohn; Collection

Colin; Mrs. Charlotte Corinth; Mr.

Arts;

The Downtown

Estate of

Gallery;

Museum

oj

Jr.;

of Art;

Mr.

L. Cardozo;

City Art

Museum

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F.

David Daniels; The Detroit

Institute of

Durlacher Brothers; Mr. Montfort Dunn;

Mr. Lyonel Feininger; Mr. and Mrs. Eric Goldsmith; Mr. George

Grosz; Mr. Joseph Hirshhorn; The Martha Jackson Gallery; The Sidney Jams
Gallery;

Marian Willard Johnson; The Kootz Gallery; Mr. Seymour Lipton;

Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lowenthal; The Pierre Matisse Gallery; Mr. and Mrs.

Morton D. May; The Boris Mirs\i Gallery; The Museum

John

S.

Newberry,

Jr.;

The

of

Modern

Art; Mr.

Betty Parsons Gallery; Mr. Philip Pearlstein; Mr.

Carl-Henning Pedersen; The Phillips Collection; The Portland Art Museum;

Paul Rosenberg and Company; Jacques Seligmann and Company, Inc.; Mr.

and Mrs. Otto Spaeth; The Stable Gallery; Mr. Harold Tovish; lone and

Hudson Walter; The Walter Art

Center;

The Willard

Gallery.

//;

the luting of dimensions, height pica tin width:

X.D. indicates

height.

to

magazines and films arc

[VAN ALBRIGHT

]tit)j,

no date was available fur the work

that

works

in italics; titles of

and small

of exhibitions arc in large

only one measurement

ij

at

THE TEMPTATION OF

ST.

VNTHONY, 1946

on canvas, 52x66'

oil

lent by the artist,

Fine Arts; National

1941, 1943, and

Academy

1948,

won

of Design,

Denotes reproduction

in the catalog.

Northwestern University and the

Illinois

of

Museum,

92

first

PERSON SAGE

by the

lent

New

Martha Jackson

1,

the

born

Museum

in

War

I:

Amsterdam; studied

show

is

represented

of the National

Academy

the collections of the Metropolitan

and others;

lives in

Chicago.

Amsterdam; 1946,
Museum, Amsterdam; 1948, one

of Fine Arts,

painters, Stedelijk

1949. organized

1949-51, contributed

exhibition of International Experi-

Cobra, magazine of the international

Amsterdam

in

moved
one-man

first

to

City Hall; fresco covered with

wallpaper after press controversy; 1950,

to Paris; included in 1953

and 1954 Venice Biennale; 1954,

exhibition in U.

Museum

first

Modern Art

of

exhibition

Sao Paulo Bienal

Martha Jackson Gallery:

S.,

The New Decade.

1923, born in Shilova, Lithuania; 1929, brought to U. S. and settled in Boston; studied formal

Museum

religion for eight years: while in high school, attended classes at School of the

CHRIST, SOLDIER AND ANGEL, 1953

Fine Arts, Boston;

on panel, 30x48"

oil

the

Dutch "experimental group" which established contact with other young

mental Group, Amsterdam;

1955, included in

DAVID ARONSON

in

Academy

Royal

at the

young

of

group; 1949, executed fresco lor coffee shop

York

member

for films;

Art, Library of Congress

Denmark and Belgium:

painters in
Gallery.

Anthony"

of St.

Modern

of

exhibited in a group

of three founders of

GRIS,
953
on canvas, 46x3 y

oil

of

York; and Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris; 1928.

Design and past president of the Chicago Society of Artists; made surgical drawings for

medical units during World

KAREL APPEL

School of

Academy

prizes at the Chicago Art Institute; painted "Portrait of Dorian

Cray" and "The Temptation

Chicago

New

refers

it

Titles of booths,

listed.

Architecture: attended the School of Chicago Art Institute; Pennsylvania

given

of art arc set off by quotation marks; titles

capitals.

born Chicago; 1916-17, studied

is

lent by the Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston

popular prize at Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; 1945,

Niveau Gallery,
x

1941, entered School on five-year scholarship: 1944,

New

York; 1946, one-man exhibition,

Museum

953> J954- received prizes from

Museum

of

in collections of

first

of

prize and

one-man exhibition.
Modern Art: 1946, 1952,

first

awarded

of Fine Arts, Boston; 1954,

Tupperware Art Fund competition; represented

won

first

prize in

Art Institute of Chicago,

Museum of Fine Arts, Bryn Mawr College and private collections; has taught at
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: now Assistant Professor and Chairman of the Divi-

Virginia

School of the

sion of Art, Boston University.

ERNST BARLACH

1870, born in Wedel,

and

THE SKEPTIC,
bronze, 2o
lent by
St.

C.

returned to

19,7

A"

Mr. and Mrs. Morton D.

May

Louis

Hamburg Academy

wood; 1906, went

ture in

Germany; 1888-95, studied

Dresden Academy; 1895-96,

at the

plicity of

folk carvings;

to

Paris,

for 3 years

School of Applied Design, Hamburg,

and

later studied in Berlin;

of

Van Gogh:

1905, did

1897,

first sculp-

South Russia, where he was influenced by the honesty and sim-

1907, settled in Giistrow, Mecklenburg, worked mainly in wood;

1923-30, executed memorials in Giistrow,

opposed

at the

was impressed by the work

Hamburg,

Kiel

and Magdeburg which were so

regime that they were either destroyed or removed; was

to the spirit of Hitler's

also

influential as a graphic artist: died in 1938.

MAX BECKMANN

1884, born in Leipzig: trained at

Weimar Academy;

1906, joined Berlin Secession, then domi-

nated by the agitated variant of impressionism developed in

THE FISHERWOMEN, I948

oil

on can fas, jjx^4\'i"

lent by
St.

Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May.

Louis

and Slevogt; early compositions bespeak

his

his

Germany by

youth was concerned with symbolism and metaphysical content;

his figure compositions,

bitter

and gruesome: 191

7,

I:

was greatly

went

to

1920's, satirized the vacuousness

lived in Paris;

war: 1946,

1937,

moved

to

his paintings of the

art

at the

which

themes
at this

German

Middle-

of the

and exhibitionism of post-war

his

Academy;

society;

late

1920's,

Holland where he hid from Nazi authorities throughout the

war

painting at Washington University,

1950-

1912, began to simplify

affected by the war, during

Frankfurt where he taught

time probably drew inspiration from the sculpture and graphic

Ages;

c.

using a few bold motifs, harsh contour and strong color; served in

German army during World War

were

Corinth, Liebennann

admiration for Tintoretto and Delacroix; from

years exhibited in
St.

Louis, and

New

York; 1947, came

Brooklyn

Museum

to

U.

S.:

taught

Art School: died in

HYMAN BLOOM
TORSO AND LIMBS, I952
stand

panel,

U.

to

studied art with Harold

S.:

Harvard University; admired the work

of

Zimmermann,

Boston, ami

Rembrandt, Blake, Rouault, Chagall.

by Durlacher Brothers.

New

York

New

1948, 1954, one-man exhibitions, Durlacher Brothers,

1946,

York; 1949, retrospective exhibi-

Boston; 1954, retrospective exhibition. Institute of Contemporary

tion, Boris Mirski Gallery,

34x52"
lent

Ross,

Soutine: late 1930's, painted series of synagogue interiors filled with rich pageantry;

and dammar varnish on

oil

came

1913, born in Latvia; 1920,

Denman

Museum

Art. Boston: has also exhibited at

Modern

of

Art,

Whitney Museum

of

American

Sao Paulo Bienal (1951. 1953) and

has been painting corpses and severed limbs: lives in Boston.

Art. Art Institute of Chicago. Venice Biennale (1950),

elsewhere; for several years

PAUL BURLIN

1886, born in

New

York: studied

impressed by Indian art and

one-man

INNER SPACE, 1955

on canvas, 40x50"

oil

lent

by the

New

artist,

York

New

University

of

Museum

ALBERTO BURRI

Munich:

exhibition.

exhibition,

of

collage,
lent

to

KJX23V1"

New

1953.

first

at

Museum

Modern

of

Washington University,

Art.

Whitney

Louis.

St.

first

one-man exhibition
in

devoted

all

his time

Rome;

in

1952, exhibited in Venice

America. Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago: 1955,

The New Decade, Museum

1887, born in Vitebsk, Russia;

Rome and

combining painted areas with burlap and other

style

one-man exhibition

included in exhibition

MARC CHAGALL

Mexico; was

Minnesota, University of Colorado and

of

Texas; after the war. settled in

sewed together: 194K.

Biennale:

York

in

developed characteristic

painting:

fabrics

by the Martha Jackson Gallery.

collections

in

New

Santa Fe,

vis. born in di Castel'.o, Italy: studied medicine in Citta Perugia; began to paint in 1944

LIGHT, 1954

settled in

Armory Show: 1921-32, lived abroad; 1926,

at New York World's Fair; 1949, one-man

at the University of

represented

American Art. and others: teaches

while a prisoner of war

\IK1

1939, exhibited

York; has taught

Wyoming;

London; 1913,

in

ritual; exhibited in

Modern Art and

of

circuit.

1908, studied at Imperial School for Protection of Art,

St.

Petersburg; 1910, went to Paris; 191 1-14, exhibited at the Salon des Independants; was friendly

with Lhote. Delaunay. Apollinaire, Jacob; 1914, one-man exhibition

snow-covered church, 1925

water color on board, 26VzX2o\

"

Berlin; 1914-22, in Russia during the

lent by the Detroit Institute of Arts, gift

of the Friends of

in Vitebsk:

founded

Moscow: 1922, returned

Modern Art

111

New

94

1,

York; 1931,

came

and Amsterdam;
exhibitions in

6,

to Paris; 1924, retrospective exhibition in Paris; 1926, first exhibition

visited Palestine,

was

greatly inspired for his illustrations for the Bible:

and costumes

and Chicago: 1947, returned

for

two

ballets; 1946, retrospective exhibi-

to Paris; retrospective exhibitions in

London

1948, received International Prize for engravings, Venice Biennale;

Jerusalem and Tel Aviv:

11)54.

one-man

1951.

exhibition, Galerie Maeght. Paris:

Rhode Island: studied sculpture with George Demetrios and painting at PennAcademy of the Fine Arts and the Cape School of Art: traveled in Mexico and Europe:

1947, began to devote his time to painting: 1952. exhibited

193}

on canvas, 40x50

six

one-man

York

lection.

at

Venice Biennale: has had

exhibitions in U. S.: has done illustrating for Life

Museum

sented in collections of Metropolitan

lent by the Betty Parsons Gallery.

New

of Fine Arts

Academic Theater,

1912, born in
sylvania

ISTANBUL NO.

Der Sturm Gallery,

southern France.

lives in

WILLIAM CONGDOX

1919, did scenery and costumes for Jewish

to U. S.; designed scenery

New York

tions in

oil

a school:

at

war and revolution: 1917. Commissioner

Washington. D. C. Detroit

of Art,

Museum

at least

and other magazines; repreof

Modern

Art, Phillips Col-

and others: spends half of each year

Institute of Art

in

Italy.

LOVIS CORINTH

1858, born in Tapiau,

Paris:

belonged

Germany; 1876-87, studied

to so-called

Hals than

by

French

Impressionists:

PROTECTED BY ARMOR, I915

Frans

tempera on canvas, 79X47V1"

Cezanne: 1887-1900, Munich and Berlin;

lent by Mrs. Charlotte Corinth,

New

York

apoplectic stroke, at

the

which time

LEONARDO CREMONIM

work included

in

SI

oil

on canvas, 53 Ax68Vz"
x

lent by Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

and

Rembrandt, Goya, Manet and

Europe; 1911, suffered an

in

critics

New

Munich.

won French Government

Institute. Detroit Institute of Arts.

scholarship to

before he received recognition in Italy; 1952,

York; 1954. one-man exhibition

Contemporary Italian Art, City Art Museum of

collections of Museum of Modern Art. Albright Art Gallery,

included in exhibition
sented in the

Munich, Antwerp and

flowers, did vigorous portraits: died in 1925:

1925, born in Bologna, Italy: studied in Milan: 1951,

1954, exhibitions at Viviano Gallery,

SAW, I95O

admired

also traveled widely in

Degenerate Art show

study in Paris; discovered by American

the academies in

but his early style was inspired more by

underwent a pronounced change, becoming strongly

his style

expressionistic; in addition to landscapes

1937, his

at

German Impressionism

in
St.

Rome;

1955.

Louis; repre-

Buffalo, Carnegie

[901, born in Le Havre; began painting

JEAN DL'BUFFET
O

TWO

FIGURES

IN

on canvas,

oil

LANDSCAPE,

since then has twice stopped painting

lent by the Sidney Janis Gallery,

New

Yorf(

and became

a clerk

returned to

later

it;

of

Modern Art

1X77, born

made

has

The New Decade;

exhibition

Le Havre; worked

111

lives in

manner; earned

on canvas, 76'sxyi/'

oil

from the

lent

Chrysler,

collection

New

Jr.,

oj Mr.

Walter

I'.

Vence

in

mous

Yorl{

JAMES ENSOR

work

American

on

oil

lent by Mr.

910

ings

and Mrs.

Eric Goldsmith,

and began

fabric design;

came

1951,

vibrant color: died

work

the municipal art

the Impres-

to paint in the

1920, painted

many

Fauve

landscapes

combines

Academy: 1880, returned

his

to

native

home environment; 1883-87, the mask became

work of Jacques Callot; 1884.

set into

the

XX

dominant
his entries

all

group, with which he exhibited; 1889, "The

Entry of Christ into Brussels" refused by Les XX, vote taken to expel Ensor from group;

one-man exhibition

1896,

in Brussels;

191

during German occupation, remained

first

\,

World War

king: 1932, 1939, large exhibitions in Paris;

JACOB EPSTEIN

Museum

1880, born in

New

League; 1902-06,
EINSTEIN, 1933

to

of

lent by Mr. Joseph

Hnshhorn

New

Yor%

in a

months

in

New

York:

commission

1949; 1951, one-man

bronze foundry, studying evenings

Museum among

in British

1907, received

knew Modigliani and

received

made a baron by the Belgian

many works lost in bombings

at

attended Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Academie Julian;

first

Medical Association buildings; 1908, did

four

from German

visits

Art.

York; 1901, worked

London; spent much time

Paris;

1906, went

from Africa,

1910, became British citizen; 1912, in

World War

one-man exhibition

to decorate

collections of sculpture

important commission for decoration of British

first portraits;

Brancusi; during

hail

Art Students

c.

I,

worked

in

England; 1927, spent

at Ferargil Galleries;

returned to England:

Underground Headquarters Building,

the earliest in series

of controversial works; executed

many

pleted important commission for

Fairmount Park Art Association, Philadelphia; was granted

knighthood;

LYONEL FEININGER

Modern

in Paris;

Egypt and Polynesia;

bronze, 16 'A"

II,

1946, large exhibition at National Gallery, London: died

of Ostend;

exhibition at

World War

catalog of his prints published;

Ostend and received many

in

1929, large retrospective exhibition in Brussels; Ensor

artists;

New

done book

illustration;

11)55,

oil

IN'

THE VILLAGE, I915

on camas, 2^Ax2gVi"

lent

from the

New

Yorl{

estate oj the artist

York;

as a child studied violin

with

his father; 1887, to

Germany

Academy: 1892-93, in Paris; studied for a time at Academic

Berlin; was active as cartoonist and illustrator: 1906-07, lived in

burg, and Berlin

1906, lived in
to

work

Marc
at

com-

London.

lives in

1871, born in

portraits; has also

to studv

music; decided to give up music for painting; 1887-91, studied at Kunstgewcrbeschule,

TRUMPETER

ol

"shorthand" linear framework with

again; 1881-82, exhibited at Brussels and Paris Salons; early paint-

left

were often figures

Exhibition;

International

United States; did many paintings

to the

1953.

in

rejected by Brussels Salon: formation of Les

I,

Ol

at

motif of his paintings: found inspiration in the

Sctc York

PORTRAIT

of Matisse

i860, born in Ostend, Belgium; studied at Brussels

cancels, -;2x2jVi

exhibition

hint, the

Van Gogh and

the Palais dc l'Eleetricite at the Paris

for

scene; his most familiar style

town which he never

LE POUILLEIX,

Van

southern France: also traveled in Sicily and Morocco: 1937, executed an enor-

in

decorative

clear,

work

and

living by engraving

his

11)40-49, lived in southern France;

the

one-man

Pans.

attending evening classes

as a clerk,

1905, was greatly impressed by the

sionists;

I937

wine merchant;

later a

first

several stays in

school; 1900, enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris; admired

PARIS,

and

1944,

North Africa: 1947. first one-man

America, Pierre Matisse Gallery; 1952, visited New York; 1955, included in

exhibition in

Museum

Julian, Paris;

and ancient and modern

1945, did lithographs exclusively; became intensely interested in

in Paris;

of prisoners, the insane, etc.;

RAOUL DUFY

and

Academic

17: studied briefly at the

literatures; stopped painting after seven years

11)41)

5x46

.it

in ethnology, paleography,

Montpamasse; read extensively

lived in

as cartoonist;

to exhibit with

11)07,

began

Der Blaue

to

devote

full

Reiter in Berlin;

Ham-

Colarossi; 1895Paris:

continued

time to painting: 1913, invited by Fran/

1919-24, taught painting and graphic arts

Bauhaus, Weimar; 1924, formed Blue Four with Kandinsky, Klec and Jawlensky; 1925-35.

artist in

residence at Bauhaus, Dessau; 1931, retrospective exhibition, National Gallery, Berlin;

after 1933.

teach

work included

summer

session

executed murals for

at

New

in

Nazi Degenerate Are exhibitions: 1936, returned

Mills College, California:

York World's Fair

of following year; 1941, exhibited at

Jcu de Paumc, Paris: 1946, exhibition at Tate Gallery, London;

Stedelijk

Museum, Amsterdam;

died 1956.

to

U.

1937, returned to U. S. to live;

S.

to

1938,

Musee du

1954, one-man exhibition,

SAM FRANCIS

1923, born in California; studied at University of California; 1946-50, painted in San Fran-

was included

cisco;

RED NO.

one-man

1954

2,

on canvas, 77x4$"

oil

lent by the

New

Gallery,

San Francisco; 1950, went

in

Nina Dausset,

to Paris;

1952,

first

1953-55, included in group exhibitions in

Paris;

London, Rome, Stockholm, Chicago and Pittsburgh; 1955, one-man exhibitions in

is widely represented in private collections in Europe and U. S.; lives in Paris.

Paris,

Martha ]ac\son

group exhibitions

in

exhibition, Galerie

Bern and Paris;

Yorl{

ARSHILE GORKY

1904, born on Lake Van, Turkish Armenia;

drew from an

when Turks began

early age;

systematic extermination of Armenians, his family fled to Russian Transcaucasia; 1920, ar-

BETROTHAL

rived in

oil

sisters

I,
1 947
on canvas, 51V4X40"

lent

by the

New

Martha

]acl{son

Gallery,

YorI{

New York

who had

with a group of Armenian emigrants and went to Boston to

arrived several years earlier;

drawing

that he lost his job;

went

New

to

where he

to Providence,

made him

his poverty, the director

most important work was

Airport:

1930,

museum showing

first

Magruder; 1946, inclusion

in 14

a series of aviation

with the public, although the

his reputation

produced works which received highest

MORRIS GRAVES
SEA GULL,

gouache, 24 !4 X28

"

W.

P. A.,

remaining on

it

for

murals executed for the Newark

Art; 1941, married

Museum

were generally

critics

made

time
1925,

as a student, but because of

of

Agnes

Modern Art enlarged

hostile or negative; 1946-47,

acclaim; committed suicide in 1948.

home

his

in the state of

experiment and by association with

Washington; learned

he admired; traveled

artists

Japan, Virgin Islands, France, Mexico and Ireland; his trip to the Orient

943

was

in

of great im-

portance for his art; 1938, developed his characteristic calligraphic technique under influence

J4

lent by Mr. John S.

lived for several years;

Modern

of

exhibition at the

critical

1910, born in Oregon; since 1911, has

to paint principally by

WOUNDED

Museum

at the

Americans

much

a teacher in the sketch class; taught at the

school until 1930; 1935, joined the Federal Art Project of the
several years;

with two

live

in a factory, but spent so

York; entered the Grand Central School of Art

and

his talent

moved

worked

Newberry,

jr.,

Grosse Poitite Farms, Michigan

of

Mark Tobey; 1946, awarded Guggenheim fellowship;

one-man exhibitions in museums throughout the

exhibited at Tate Gallery, London:

has had

Museum

Chicago, Metropolitan

many

Art and

country; 1948, retrospective exhibi-

Legion of Honor; represented

tion, California Palace of the

and

others; his art

Museum

of Art,

of

man

indicate a

life

in collections of

Modern

Art Institute of

Art, San Francisco

Museum

of

of deeply mystic attitudes, devoted to

nature.

GEORGE GROSZ

1893, born in Berlin; studied at Dresden

1913, to Paris;

THE LITTLE MURDERER, I918

lent by the artist,

at

Academy and Royal

Academie

Colarossi;

political speeches,

Huntington, Long Island

tried
in

U.

and fined

had

for

exhibition; 1920-30, did designing for theater; 1923,

defaming public morals

Homo:

Ecce

in his

1931,

final

U.

S.

citizenship papers;

1941, one-man exhibition.

1945, awarded second prize, Carnegie Institute;

MARSDEN HARTLEY
THE FISHERMAN'S LAST SUPPER,
oil

938

by lone and Hudson Walter,

New

York

settled

known

for his writings

and

illustrations: lives

Museum

of

one-man shows throughout

on Long Island.

1877, born in Lewiston, Maine; studied at Cleveland School of Art, the Chase School and

on academy board, 22x28"

lent

exhibition

1952, commissioned to do a

painted series in Dallas, Texas, "Impressions of Dallas"; has had

the U. S.; also

one-man

York; 1933,

York; 1937, awarded Guggenheim fellowship, which was renewed

Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich; 1938, deprived of German

in

received

Art;

first

New

New

1938; included

citizenship,

Modern

one-man

German army;
German Dada movement, made

1932-50, taught intermittently at Art Students League,

S.:

with his family in

in

his first

Arts and Crafts School, Berlin;

1914-18, twice in

twice discharged after illness; 1918, settled in Berlin, joined

on canvas, 26x26"

oil

drew from model

National

Academy

1912-13,

first

of

trip to

Design

in

New

York; 1909,

Europe; experimented

briefly

first

exhibition at Sticglitz' "291" gallery;

with cubism and semi-automatic abstract

compositions in Paris; exhibited with Der Blaue Reiter, Munich; exhibited in

New

York:

Mexico,

series of expressionist landscapes;

discipline of Cezanne's

landscape;

Armory Show,

1914-16, second trip to Europe; continued abstract experiments;

work; 1930, returned

1938, "archaic

few American painters

influences; died in

memory

to

U.

portraits" of

to achieve synthesis

1943.

1919,

New

1926-28, Aix-en-Provence; painted under severe

S.;

Nova

took renewed interest in

Scotia family

and

New

scenes;

England

was one of

between American tradition and strong European

ERICH HECKEI.
I

III

VTHI

Rs.

on canvas,

oil

become

lent by
St.

sionist painter: 1905,

UJlj

i2%xj7%"

Mr. and Mrs. Morton

I).

May.

1,

elements in

on canvas,

lent by Mr.
St.

C.

and Mrs. Morton D. May,

War

1880, born

Kootz Gallery.

New

Yorl{

VON JAWLENSKY
9

s'

on canvas, 22V* X21"

lent by Mr.
St.

in

trips to India;

and Mrs. Morton D. May.

won

was impressed

prizes in Carnegie International exhibitions:

first

to Berlin to

become head

West

of

Berlin

as teacher

and

while

artist

in

art

New

Museum

in

Germany; 1907-14, studied

Europe; 1930, brought

Museum

Art,

of

U.

S.

of

is

Modern

Paris;

own

his

art

represented in the collec-

Whitney Museum

Art,

Walker Art Center and

in

by University

and teach and has established

York; has exhibited widely;

Art, Art Institute of Chicago,

to

others; lives in

New

ol

York

each year.

111
the Imperial Guard to
Academy and with Repine; 1896, studied
111 Munich with Azbe; influenced by Cezanne and Van Gogh; from 1902, worked alone; 1905,
a stay in Brittany and Provence prompted him to use brighter colors; met Matisse; 1909,
founded the New Association of Munich Artists with Kandinsky, Kubin, Gabriele Miinter

form

1889 on, studied

Moscow

in

at the

in close agreement with the aims of Der Blaue Reiter although he did not
movement; painted landscapes, but more often heads and half-length figures, whose
work done between 1911-14 was simple and monumental; lived in Switzerland dur-

in

ing the war; 1921, settled in Wiesbaden; 1924,

and Feimnger;

and

WASSILY KANDINSKY

his color

as

he grew older, the

grew

lighter

human

formed the Blue Four with Kandinsky, Klec

face

became the only theme

and more transparent: died

in

that interested him,

1942.

1866, born in Moscow, where he studied law and political economy; 1896, abandoned law
career to devote himself to painting;

COMPOSITION WITH NUDE, 1911

and drawing; 1906,

on canvas, 59x37 Vi"

St.

in

in southern France

and others; was

Louis

lent by

was interned

influenced by Puvis de Chavannes; later,

work was

Weissenburg, Bavaria; studied

a painter;

join the

oil

of nature; 1954,

Karlsruhe, Germany, where he

1864, born at Souslovo, Russia; gave up his career as an officer

become
I

lives in

Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Zurich; worked

in

banishment by the Nazis, returned

for a large part of

EGYPTIAN GIRL,

early

Metropolitan

of

tions

American

oil

I;

schools in Province-town and

on canvas, 36x48"

ALEXEI

German); studied
made two

of California; since then has continued to paint

SF.RENATA, H/SS

lent by the

York;

of Art.

was well known

oil

New

for four years in Paris;

after years of

Academy

HANS HOFMANN

.1

Academy.

by Cezanne, Derain and Picasso; twice

Louis

showing pleasant aspects

1920, painted landscapes

conflict; after

during World

1913

62%xjr }A"

it

formed Die Briicke with Kirchner and Schmidt-Rottluff; between 1906I show the

1878, born in Karlsruhe,

Rome and
oil

left

developed from a romantic post-impressionist into an expres-

exhibition, St. Eticnnc Gallery,

teaches at the

KARL HOFER

a painter;

met Nolde, Pechstein and Otto Mueller; landscapes done during World War

one-man

Louis

THE FAREWELL,

1904, began study of architecture in Dresden, but

1883, born in Dobeln, Saxony;

year later to

went

to

after travel in Tunisia,

Munich

to study; 1902,

Holland and

opened school of painting

Italy, settled

near Paris for a year;

1907, returned to Munich: exhibited with Die Briicke; 1910, painted his

Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May,

representational

works and wrote

and Macke; 1912,

Louis

first

first

retrospective exhibition in Berlin; during

World War

Switzerland; after the Revolution, returned to Moscow, where he occupied

organized 22 museums, and directed

entirely non-

Concerning the Spiritual in Art: met Marc, Klee

treatise,

Museum

of Pictorial Culture;

retired to

I,

official

posts,

1921, returned to Ger-

many; 1922, became teacher at Bauhaus; formed Blue Four with Klee, Jawlensky and Feininger; 1929, first one-man exhibition in France; 1933, Bauhaus closed by Nazis; his canvases
were confiscated and sold as examples of degenerate art: he went to Paris where he remained
death in 1944.

until his

JONAH KINIGSTEIN

1923, born in

Army
on panel, 4^/2x31

lent

/2

York; studied

at

Cooper Union Art School; 1942-45, served

1947-51, lived in Europe;

in

U.

S.

1953, received Fulbright grant for Italy; has

exhibited in Paris at Salon d'Automne, Salon des Jeunes Peintres, Galerie 8 and Galerie des

PIAZZA Dl SPAGNA, 1954

oil

New

Air Corps;

"

Impressions d'Art; has exhibited in U.

by the Alan Gallery,

New

Yor/<

of Art, Pennsylvania

Museum
Art,

Academy

of Fine Arts

Whitney Museum

lives in

New

York.

and elsewhere;
of

S. at

Columbus Museum

of the Fine Arts,

is

of Art, Metropolitan

Whitney Museum

of

American

represented in collections of

Museum

American Art: 1955, one-man exhibition, Alan Gallery,

Museum

Art, Boston
of

Modern

New

York:

ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER

1880, born at Aschaffenburg,

gave

THE CIRCUS RIDER,

and the

on canvas, 79*5954"

oil

the

by Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May,

lent

Louis

St.

this

up

of Die Briicke left

lent by the City Art

gI3

whom

monumental

man

ON THE LAWN, 192J

water color, gxio"

Italy

in

New

York

was

Matisse;

friend of

land,

FRANZ KLINE

Bauhaus,

at the

first in

going

I,

HJS-

on canvas, %^x4i /i"

Martha Jackson Gallery,
x

lent by the

title

one-man

exhibitions,

one-man

exhibitions.

since

OSKAR KOKOSCHKA

Egan

turned to

he had been
oil

on

in Dessau; 1925, his notes

opposed

painting;
art

were

he returned to Switzer-

to Hitlerism,

1938, went to

New

York; 1950, 1951, 1954.

Design and Allen Frumkin Gallery, both

of

Museum,

Chicago;

in

Galerie de France in Paris,

Sidney Janis Gallery,

International, and

Pittsburgh

New

1952, taught at Black Mountain College; 1954,

Whitney

Wiklenstein Gallery

York.

The Boy Dreamers; began

colors;

New

York

191

wounded, was an

5,

invalid for

Academy; was influenced by Die

two

to

produce expressionist paintings and

920

Vienna, but

on canvas, 43V1X32'

and Mrs. Mai ton

left for

many

years, painted
I).

May,

Louis

the Valais

and

Prague

1949, to U.

1952, guest

of Fine Arts;

came

after Dollfuss

large allegorical

Italy;

artist,

years;

S.;

and

sites,

to

power; 1935, went

summer

somber

1924-31, traveled through

mountains and

cities;

to

historical pictures; after the

taught

portraits in

1919, became teacher at Dresden

Briicke in use of bold color;

Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor, painting

St.

to this time

dramas which shocked the public; 1908-14, painted psychologically acute

on canvas, 18x24'

lent by Mi.

up

1886, born in Polcharn, Austria; 1904, went to Vienna to study; influenced by the Jugendstil

FRAU ERFURT. 1921

David Daniels,

summer

Gallery;

Institute

in his illustrations for

oil

visits to

discovered Cezanne,

until his death in 1940.

1950, has exhibited at the Fogg Art

and Stable Gallerv,

Stuck; after

Pedagogical Sketchbook.; 1928, appointed Professor

of Fine Arts, Dusseldorf; 1933.

where he worked

Museum Annual,

York

we,

1910, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; studied at Girard College, Philadelphia, Boston

BLACK AND WHITE NO.

sl

sometimes took on

now

to Tunisia;

Weimar, then

University and Heatherly's School, England:

mi

life

to

Kandinsky and Franz Marc and exhibited with

a year in Paris before

draftsman and had painted only water colors: he

Academy

at the

lent by Mr.

Germany

to his surround-

1926, developed this theme in large allegorical compositions;

published by the Bauhaus under the

oil

bound

1938.

them: 1913, spent almost

1920 on, taught

convey the acid

plastic structure of

illness, left

Paris, settled in

Van Gogh and

by Marian Willard Johnson,

New

to

immediate presence of the human being,

interested in the

Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, under Franz von

Munich where he married a pianist; 1908-10,

studied at the

and

essentially a

oil

from the

peace with nature, and his scenes of peasant

at

but

1879, born near Bern, Switzerland; after hesitating between music and painting, chose the
latter:

lent

began

his painting

in Switzerland; here, in the life of the peasant

character; after

committed suicide

PAUL KLEE

to study architecture,

of the founders of Die Briicke in Dresden; 1911,

Dresden for Berlin;

was primarily

mountains

found

ings, he

of St. Louis

Dresden

he tried to give transcendental meaning; 1917, because of

rest in the

Museum

to

forms and colors; admired Munch, Hodler

flavor of the intense, artificial life of Berlin at that time; learned

to
I

was one

art of native peoples; 1905,

members

cubist paintings, but

STANDING WOMAN,
wood, 26"

Germany; 1901, went

for graphic art: painted in simplified

1931, settled in

London; during war

war, did landscapes of

Museum
summer school,

school under auspices of Boston

Minneapolis School of Art;

1954, taught

Salzburg, Austria; lives in Villencuve, Switzerland.

GEORGE KOLBE

1877, born in Waldheim, Saxony: studied at Dresden

few months

to Paris for a

'

bronze, 24

by Mr. and Mrs. Erich

New

York

Academie

Academy and

Julian; 1899- 1902, lived in

in

Munich; 1898, went

Rome where

taught at
Colin,

Academy

in Berlin;

early

simple geometric form with gracious

ments; died

in

1947.

he studied

Germany and
work was influenced by Rodin; mature work combines
rhythmic movement: executed more than fifteen monu-

with Louis Tuaillon and sculpture became his chief interest; 1904, returned to

GRIEF, 1926

lent

at

RATI IK KOLLWITZ

[867, born in Konigsberg,

Germany, where

SELF PORTRAIT,

was

this

936

who

bronze, i4 x/z"
lent by the City Art

Museum

of St. Louis

on "The Weavers"

bronze,

and Mrs. Erich

Co/in, Netv

York

given the
did

.1

last print series,

which she

died, after

ELAINE DE KOONING

1920, born in

New Talent

on canvas, 48x32"

lent

New

was Art Xcirs

by the Stable Cillery. Netv York

WILLEM DE KOONING
C

TWO WOMEN,

1954-55

lent by the

New

lived as a guest at

Martha Jackson Gallery,

U.

S.: settled in

one-man

Arts;

1953,

New

New

one-man

at

Egan

oil

on canvas,

made

40%xjo A"
l

Taos,

New

Art; died

RICO LEBRUN
1111

CROSS, 11*50

(No. 157 of the Crucifixion

11

f son board, 96x48"

lent by Jacques
Inc.,

series)

1953;

ship;

Seligmann ami Company

Netv York

came
Academy

St.

Louis

group shows

U.

supported himself with menial jobs:

S.,

of Design

and Art Students League; 1920-25.

works; 1922.

art

first

one-man

exhibition:

entirely in lithography. 1935, studied in

Art Students League and

at

Museum

Annex:

[930's,

of

Modern

of

Academy

New York and

1925, settled in

Museum

of Arts:

New

American

Art,

Tokyo.

World War

came

1924.

1925.

Mexico and

U.

to

continued to paint: executed

was twice granted Guggenheim fellow-

monumental

of

Illinois

Modern

series of

drawings and pasted-paper cutouts:

Museum

Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan

and elsewhere; has recently been producing paintings and

size: lives in

West Los Angeles.

1906, received a prize for sculpture which enabled

him

to

make

apparently was not affected by Italian influence: 1907, began to exhibit

I<)1"

elected a
I).

May.

I,

S. as

1881, born at Meiderich-Duisburg in the Ruhr; studied in Diisseldorf and elsewhere for

24%"
and Mrs. Morton

Museum

University of

Art,

years;

lent by Mr.

to

in stained glass factory in Naples;

Office

Fine-

Art School and

since 1949 has been included in

1954. memorial exhibition. National

York City Post

has exhibited at

WILHELM LEHMBRUCK

Museum

Janis Gallery, Boston

C;

stage design; 1948,

Yale School of

at

has taught at Art Students League, Chouinard Art Institute and [epson Art Institute.

collages of

STANDING FIGURE,

New

and

art,

York: 1952-53. taught

Los Angeles: 1953-54. in Mexico; did extensive

of

bronze,

New

1906,

worked

worked

1950, included in

Annual: 1953. one-man

in Artists

South America.

in

photographing

representative of his factory:

frescoes for

she married in 1943; 1948-49,

articles since then;

1900, born in Naples, Italy; attended night school at Naples

ROOSTER ON THE ARM OF

in 11)45.

Research: 1948, retrospective exhibition at Whitney

served in Italian army:

dnco on

whom

many

Mexico on Guggenheim fellowship; taught

in

Art and

of

apprenticed to decorating firm; 19 19, worked under

6,

Gallery,

Europe and

his living chiefly by

School for Social

won

York.

Washington, D.

in

in

S..

1928, toured Europe, where he

lent by Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

Acadcnn

of the Berlin

Moritzburg Castle: died

exhibitions at Sidney

1893, born in Okayam.i, fapan;

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, 1945

this series

in sculpture; after exhibit-

Academic van Beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam: 1926, came

studied in Los Angeles at National

member

York, did murals, decorating, commercial

exhibitions,

throughout the U.

YASUO KUNIYOSHI

Kootz Gallery: 1951-55. exhibited

Romein; studied

Workshop Art Center

York

made

work

York; 1937-38, attended Leonardo da Vinci School and American Artists

exhibition,

1951,

for Historical Art;

"War": 1933, expelled from the Academy by Hitler; 1934-35. pro"The Print-Sequence on the Theme of Death"; c. 1936, her husband

exhibition, Stable Gallery; lives in

to

worked

1919. her style changed, becoming strongly expressionistic; niz^.

1904, born in Rotterdam, Holland: 191

on canvas, 40x50"

oil

c.

editorial associate: has contributed

painter Bernard

to social service; 1892-96,

1910, began to

c.

193N-47. studied under Willem de Kooning,

School;

PORTRAIT OF BILL, 1953

of professor;

print cycle entitled

duced her

oil

War," published by the Society

cycle. "Peasant

title

and others:

print cycle, a sympathetic treatment of the plight of the worker; 1902-05,

ing at the Paul Cassirer Gallery, Berlin, was

i'-t

lent by Mr.

and moral

social

of Zola, Ibsen

1K91, married Dr. Karl Kollwitz.

and shared her dedication

clinic

her the prize of a year's resilience in Florence;

1938

\.

an atmosphere of

in

the beginning of an interest in social democracy;

maintained an informal

2nd print

grew up

she

was impressed by the writings

idealism; while studying in Munich,

member

of the Societe des Beaux-Arts: three years later,

was influenced by Maillol and created

delicate

and

lyrical figures;

at Paris salons

moved
from

12

trip to Italy, but

to Paris,
this

and was

where

he turned to

he.1

more

serious expression inspired by the mysticism of Gothic art; at the outbreak of the war,

went

to

Berlin in a very pessimistic state of

outlook, so he returned to Berlin:

mind:

1919, was elected

a
a

unable to free himself from despair, committed suicide.

move to Zurich
member of the

did not improve his

Berlin

Academy, but

JACK LEVINE

born

1915,

Boston;

in

Harvard University;

NEIGHBORHOOD PHYSICIAN, 1939

on panel, 48x30"

from Carnegie

lent by the

Academy

Rouault and Soutinc;

oil

Walker Art Center, Minneapoli.

bronze, 24 54
lent by
St.

fellowship;

Museum

at

of

1947, received prizes

of Art,

Museum
Collection

Phillips

Modern

of

Art,

Museum

of Fine Arts in Boston,

Whitney Museum

of

American Art,

Washington, D. C. and many others;

in

lives

in

York.

1891, born

Academic
THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR, 1942

Guggenheim

work

and Corcoran Gallery of Art; 1948, awarded medal by Pennsylvania

Institute

Walker Art Center,

JACQUES LIPCHITZ

1942; found a point of departure in the

1947, received

1946,

and protege of Denman Ross

painting as pupil

started

14,

of the Fine Arts; represented in collections of

Metropolitan

New

at

lived in Boston until

Lithuania:

Druskieniki,

at

Paris:

Julian,

visited

Rivera and Juan Gris: 1920,

art

1909-12, studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and

one-man

first

frequently;

collections

with Diego

1913-20, friendly

1922, executed five reliefs for

exhibition, Paris;

"

Barnes Foundation building, Merion, Pennsylvania;

Mr. Monlfort Dunn, Marine-on-the-

Croix, Minnesota

executed

1927-31,

exhibition, Paris;

1935,

important exhibition

first

936-37, awarded gold medal

1941-46 lived

in

New

in

U.

1930,

first

Brummer

S.,

large

retrospective

New

Gallery,

York;

Prometheus sculpture commissioned for Paris World's Fair;

for

York, exhibited

Buchholz Gallery, began work on monumental

at

"Prometheus Strangling the Vulture,"

sculpture,

1926, series of sculpture transparents;

on commission;

sculptures

large

several

for

Ministry

Education and Health

of

building, Rio de Janeiro; 1946, returned to Paris; exhibited at Galerie Maeght; commissioned

make

to

baptismal font for church of Notre-Dame-de-Toute-Grace, Assy; returned perma-

nently to U.

SEYMOUR LIPTON
JUNGLE BLOOM

NO. 2, 1955

lent by the artist.

Museum

style,

at

New

York

exhibition,

New

of

Modern

York; studied

had

first

Art; lives in Hastings-on-Hudson.

and Columbia University, but

at City College

sculpture exhibition: since 1944 has

Research; his

work

New

York.

is

1870, born in Rutherford,

oil

949

on canvas, 24x29"

lent by the

Downtown

New

New

Jersey State Teachers College,

Jersey;

traveled in Europe: did etchings of

returned permanently to U.
Gallery,

New

York

New

and

School for Social

899-1903, studied

S.,

European

and became

architecture,

Pennsylvania Academy of the

at

for four years;

offices

working

Whistlerian

in

closely associated with Stieglitz'

1905-09,
191

style;

"291"

of

maintained freshness and spontaneity; 1936, important retrospective exhibition

Modern

Art; most characteristic

throughout the country; died

bv

six

medium

is

watercolor;

in 1953; 1955, large

is

represented in

museum

at

Museum

collections

John Marin Memorial Exhibition organized

American museums.

90 1, born

Florence:

Academy

studied painting and sculpture at the

Pistoia, Italy;

in

worked

of Fine Arts,

and draftsman for several years; 1928-38, was often

as painter

in Paris:

BULL, I953

1942-46, worked in Switzerland and traveled in other European countries; 1931, 1935,

bronze, jo'A"

prizes for sculpture at

lent

by the Martha Jackson Gallery,

New

York

tional

Exhibition:

exhibited in

Roman

Art
in

PHOENIX

I,

Bologna,

Philadelphia;

New

York

won

prize at Paris Interna-

Academy, Milan; 1949,

Modern Art; 1952, special one-man
exhibition Contemporary Italian Art, City

1955, included in

of

of St. Louis; represented in important collections throughout the U. S.

Italy; since

New

Jersey; studied in this country

1939 has exhibited

Chicago, Albany and elsewhere; 1944,

1954

first

1940, appointed Professor of Sculpture at Brera

1913, born in Union City,

9K"

lent by the Willard Gallery,

Museum

won

and

Europe.

Arti,

bronze,

Quadrennial Exposition; 1937,

20TH Century Italian Art, Museum

exhibition, Venice Biennale;

EZIO MARTINELLI

1,

gallery;

1912-22, developed most of his basic compositional formulas, within which he has nonetheless

MARINO MARIN1

self-taught

is

in abstract-expressionist

included in private and public collections in this country and abroad;

Fine Arts and Art Students League; worked in architects'

MORNING SCENE, SEA AND LEDGES,

worked

using solid forms, later with soldered metal constructions; has taught sculpture

first

Cooper Union Art School,

lives in

JOHN MARIN

destroyed contents of

one-man

1903, born in

18"

fire

model of Virgin of Assy and another important commission; 1954, major

as artist; 1938,

nickel-silver,

1948-53, worked on various commissions; 1952,

S.;

his studio, including

is

won

in

at

Accademia

delle Belle

San Francisco, Denver,

in

John Gribbel Memorial Award of the Print Club,

represented in collections of Pennsylvania

Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago and

and

group exhibitions

New York

Museum

Public Library;

dation and Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania; lives in

of Art, Elgin
is

New

Academy

a Fellow, Tiffany

York.

of

Foun-

GEORGES MATHIEU

1921, born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France; studied law and philosophy; traveled in England,

Belgium, Switzerland,

one-man

PAINTING. 145-1

on canvas, 29x46"

oil

Zurich (1952).

Kootz Gallery,

lent by the

exhibitions

New

Italy,

Spain; 1949-52, one-man exhibitions in Paris; 1949, 1952, 1953,

New

in

New York

York; has exhibited

group shows

in

many

(1952, 1953). London (1953) and

Edinburgh (1952),

in

in Paris.

York

HENRI MATISSE

worked

[869, born at Le Cateau, France; studied law;

in

an

office at St.

Qucntin

1H92, his father consented, after strong resistance, to his career as a painter;

VENUS, I9I9
bronze,

1 1

Academic

studied at

Julian

Museum

of Art,

Cuue Collection

he encountered impressionism

style until

1919-27,

to

more easy

theme was the odalisque: 1931, came to U.

Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania; this marked a return
style;

worked extensively

Modigliani;

on canvas, 26x30*/*"

oil

lent by Mr.
St.

Germany; 1903-05, studied

1906-07,

Berlin;

in

1907,

returned

to

German army;

Louis

Jewish

high school, Cologne;

OTTO MUELLER

oil

St.

92 I

somewhat

at Breslau

and Mrs. Morton D. May,

like

first

time,

1939, emigrated

to

was friendly

Julian;

with two other

1,

with

formed group called

artists

Der Sturm Gallery; 191 6-18, served

in

1935-39, taught drawing in

London; 1940-41, was interned; 1949,

Germany; 1953, settled in Frankfurt

trip to

much;

was obsessed with

until 1925,

a single subject,

monotoned

paper cutouts, against a landscape background; until 1930, was a teacher

Art High School;

in his later

work,

his color

became darker and

his subjects

more

varied and at times exotic; died in 1930.

Louis

THE MULATTO, I915

on canvas,
l>y

vard

name was Emil Hansen, but he changed it to that

work was somber in color; 1892-98, taught at the arts and crafts

1867, born at Nolde in Schleswig; his real

of his native village; early

lent

191

Academie

Main.

nudes,

EMIL NOLDE

oil

Vence;

1874, born at Libau in Silesia: 1910, joined Die Briicke group, from whose other members,

on canvas, 26x1 8V1"

lent by Mr.

Berlin;

London; 1952, made

especially Kirchner, he learned

I

to

an

1905-06, worked as fashion

in Breslau;

at

1925, devoted himself exclusively to writing;

exhibited in group show,

am

studied

Paris;

Die Pathetiker; 1912, exhibited for the

and Mrs. Morton D. May.

SELF PORTRAIT,

in

at

S.

to

engraving, illustration and paper cutouts; died in 1954.

in sculpture,

1884, born in Bernstadt,

designer

favorite

1948, commissioned to decorate Dominican Chapel

emphasis on stronger form;

in a traditional

successively under influence of

and bold

also

Louvre and painted

came

of bright color

decorate large hall at

in the

1890's;

late

form; after 191 1-12, worked in an austere way sometimes verging on cubism;
returned

BURNING CITY,

in

Cezanne and Neo-Impressionists; 1905-08, produced Fauve paintings

LUDWIG MEIDNER

to Paris;

and Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Gustave Moreau; became acquainted

with Rouault, Camoin and Marquet; copied pictures

Vs"

lent by the Ball/mure

as a clerk;

went

school in St. Gall, Switzerland; studied in Munich, Paris and

joy2 X28 }A"

the Busch-Reisingcr
University,

sionist beginnings, his

Museum, Har-

Purchase,

Thompson Fund

in

David

G.

Memory

of

Valentin

Curt

Copenhagen; 1904,

after impres-

touch became stronger and his colors bolder; 1906, joined Die Briicke.

but soon broke away because of his solitary nature: 1908, his work attained

its

most monu-

mental form; 1909, produced large religious compositions and, at the same time, masks and
primitive

statuettes

appeared in

his

still

lifes;

1913-14, was a

member

expedition that traveled to Russia, China, Japan and Polynesia;

Nazis,

who

forbade

him

to paint: did

later,

of an ethnological

was attacked by the

important work in watercolor and engraving; expressed

primitive feeling with intense, often barbaric, color.

JOSE

CLEMENTE OROZCO

1883, born in Zapotlan, Mexico; 1909, began to paint: studied at

Academy

City; did political cartoons during the revolution; 1923-27, painted

THE CEMETERY,
oil

93

New

Museum

York.

of Fine Arts,

of

Galleries,

Modern

Art.

New

and Ravenna;

Social Research in

New

many

institutions including

York, Dartmouth College, Palace of Fine Arts

Mexican Supreme Court of

tive

Harriman

York; toured Europe, was greatly impressed by Byzantine frescoes

1930-41, executed frescoes for

Mexico

frescoes at Preparatory

School, Mexico City; 1928, exhibition of his drawings of the revolution at Marie

on canvas, 2yx^g 7/s

lent by the

first

in

New

in

Rome

School for

Mexico City and

Mexico City; 1947, National RetrospecExhibition, Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City; same year, received prize given to the
Justice; spent his last years in

nation's outstanding cultural

died in 1949.

exponent

in all areas of art

and science

for preceding five years;

PHILIP PEARLSTEIN

1924, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; studied painting and design at Carnegie Institute of
in Italy with U. S. Army, saw Florence, Rome anil Venice: 1954,
Emerging Talent exhibition, Kootz Gallery, New York; 1955, received M.A. in
from New York University Institute of Fine Arts; first one-man exhibition, Tanager

Technology; 1944-4(1, while

THE FACE OF THE CLIFF.

included in

954

on canvas, 40x36"

oil

lent by the artist,

art history

New

York

New

lives in

MAX PECHSTEIN

88

born

1,

INDIAN AND

WOMAN,

Zwickau, Saxony: worked

in

St.

Mr. and Mrs. Morton

I).

World War

May,

I:

CARL-HENNING PEDERSEN

was an

191 3, born in

to Berlin to live; 1923,

Copenhagen, Denmark;

is

became

men

with these

Italy: contact

member

CHINESE LANDSCAPE, I950

original

of the

November

Academy.

self-taught as painter; 1936, exhibited for the

Germany and

first

France; 1940-49, was

group which published a review, Helhesten (The Hell Horse);

of Danish abstract

1948, exhibited at Venice Biennale; traveled and painted

on canvas, 41Y&X50"

merged; con-

later

member

a professor at the

time, Salon d'Automne, Copenhagen: 1939, traveled in

lent by the artist.

and

to Paris

founded the Neue Sezession, with which Der Blauc Reiter

tributed extensively to graphic art of his time;

Louis

Gruppe; 1919, went

oil

at

the South Seas; 1906, joined Hcckel and

turned him from an impressionist to an expressionist painter; served on Western Front in

on canvas, ^2YzX26%"

lent by

house painter's apprentice; 1900, studied

as a

Cambodia and

later traveled to

Kirchner in Die Briicke, but the following year went

I9I11

art part time;

York.

Dresden Academy;

oil

Whitney Annual: teaches

Gallery; exhibited in Pittsburgh International and

in

Iceland;

1950,

first

one-man

Copenhagen; was awarded Eckersbergmedal by Royal Danish Academy; 1948-55,

traveled and painted in Greece, France and Italy; 1952 and 1955, exhibited in Pittsburgh

Copenhagen

exhibition,

International: has also exhibited in Paris, Oslo, Stockholm,

and Basel:

PABLO PICASSO

88 1

born

lives in

at

Amsterdam, The Hague,

Brussels

Copenhagen.

Malaga, Spain; 1895-1901, painted

1901, in Paris,

realistic portraits, still lifes;

influenced by Toulouse-Lautrec and El Greco; 1902-04, "Blue" period; 1904, settled in Paris;

THE MOTHER,

1905-06, "Rose" period; 1907-08, impressed by Cezanne and Negro sculpture, he collaborated

90 I

on canvas, 2gY>x2o"

oil

lent by the City Art

with Braquc

Museum

of St. Louis

to invent

cubist sculpture;

cubism: 1908-13, analytical cubism: 1908-10, facet cubism; 1909,

1912-14, did collages which influenced

cubism; 1917, in Rome: did stage

:>

CRANDE DANSEUSE, 1907

on canvas, SgxjgVi"

oil

lent

from the

Chrysler,

"classic" style, did

New

Mr. Walter

P.

York

STILL LIFE Willi CHERRIES,

943

sets for

Diaghilev's

portraits; 1925, surrealist phase; 1928-34, did sculpture

"Guernica"; 1939, exhibition in

tions; 1937, painted

collection of

Jr.,

many

first

Dada movement; 1913 on, synthetic

ballet company; 1918-25, worked in

New

and construc-

York, Picasso: 40 Years of His Art:

H)44, large exhibition at Salon d'Automne, Paris; 1945, exhibited with Matisse, Victoria and

did lithography and etchings; worked at Vallauris Pot-

Albert

Museum, London; 1947-50,

teries;

195?, retrospective exhibitions in

Rome, Milan, Lyons and

New

York:

lives in

Cannes.

on canvas, 2gxj6Vi"

oil

lent by
St.

Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May,

Louis

CLAYTON

S.

PRICE

[874, born on a ranch, Iowa; until about 45,

a year at St. Louis School of Art;

WOLVES,

I944

Oregon; 191

on paperboard 26x

oil

lent

,</

by Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lowenthal,

New

York City

8,

to Portland:

WPA
1942,
lery,

to

as

cowhand and ranchman: 1905,

one-man

New

San Francisco and Monterey; devoted

his

and Frank Galleries

exhibition, Meier

exhibition, Portland Art

York; 1946, included

Museum and

time to painting; 1929,

in Portland:

in

collections

in

14

of Detroit

Institute

oil

on canvas, 30x40"

lent by Paul

New

York

Rosenberg and Company.

and

moved

worked on Oregon

New

1945,

one-man

at

Academie

Academic- Ranson

Julian,
in

Ecolc

of Arts,

York; studied

Paris;

des

Portland Art

of

Valentin Gal-

Modern

Museum,

Seattle

Art:

Art

art

and architecture

Beaux-Arts, Academic de

at

George Washington

Academy
la

of the Fine Arts,

Grande Chaumiere and

has exhibited widely in this country and at Salon des Tuileries

and Salon des Independants

in

Paris:

1919,

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: 1946,

prize in

exhibition,

Museum

exhibition at

memorial exhibition. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

others: died in 1950; 1951,

1K95, born in Poughkecpsie,

Museum;

Americans

University; also studied at Corcoran School of Art, Pennsylvania

STORM COMPOSITION. I955

spent

Federal Art Project; did murals for Pendleton High School and Beach School, Portland;

represented

ABRAHAM RATTNER

went

one-man

worked

1909-10, did illustrating for Pacific Monthly in Portland,

La Tausca exhibition;

lives in

New

received

won

York.

Cresson

traveling

fellowship

prize in Pepsi-Cola show: 1947, took

from
first

THEODORE ROSZAK

bom

1907,

Academy
INVOCATION NO.
bronze, 24'

I,

welded or brazed metal;

in

American Art; has

York.

purchase award

Sao Paulo

at

of

Museu dc Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo,

GEORGES ROUAULT

THE JUDGES, C. I907

i
,
oil and gauche on paper, 24 Axt8 A'

Art

Art,

Brazil,

of

and

S.

in international

and others;

Museum

1951, received

Modern

of

Tate Gallery

of Chicago,

Institute

now chairman

is

at

Whitney Museum

Art Institute of Chicago;

Bienal; represented in collections of

American

Lawrence College, where he

at

painter; 1935-45, did

930, awarded medal

at

group shows throughout the U.

also exhibited in

Whitney Museum

lent by the Portland Art

World's Eair, Poznan, Poland; since 1032, has exhibited annually

shows abroad; 1948, 1951, won Logan Medal

first as a

1045, his style changed to violent

severely geometric in form; after

themes expressed with molten forms

studied at Art Institute of Chicago, National

S.;

Columbia University and abroad; worked

abstract constructions,

Iy-47

lent by the Pierre Matisse Gallery,

New

Poland; 1909, brought to U.

in

of Design,

Art,

London,

in

since 1941 has taught sculpture at Sarah

New

of the art department; lives in

York.

grew up in a family of artisans; at 14 was apprenticed to a stained glass

work he gained a craftsman's integrity and retained a taste for colors

871, born in Paris;

maker; from

this

bounded with

heavy black

line; trained at the Ecole

Nationale des Arts Decoratifs and the

Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he became a favorite pupil antl friend of Gustave Moreau; 1905-18,

him

painted the clowns, prostitutes, judges and Christs which earned

Museum

major

artist;

ings for

his

acclaim as a

first

1907, worked at ceramics and met Odilon Rcdon; 1917-27, did a scries of etch-

Ambroise Vollard

to illustrate various

works and Miserere

Guerre, published

et

in

1948; did settings for the Ballets Russes; since 1932, painting has again become the major

and judges have remained

part of his production; clowns

KARL SCHM1DT-ROTTLUFF

1884, born in Rottluff,

Germany; was
was one

ing and graphics; 1905,

LANDSCAPE, 191

was

on canvas, soxj^Yi"

oil

lent

St.

closely linked with

woodcuts

by Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May,

religious scenes have

work: landscapes and

of his early

in

first

taught at
also

trained in architecture, from

Briicke style, a result of

BEN SHAHN
11

lent

six,

studied at National

1952
linen

canvas

over

plywood,

40x27"

Edward Joseph Gallagher

III

of Art,

Memorial

Collection

DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS

New

York,

Security Administration; has

shows,

Museum

of

gift of

Henry

art school;

48Vtx^ l/"

Modern

R. Luce

York: 1935-38, did photography and designing

one-man

Modern Art and

and community buildings

in public

exhibitions of drawings,

circuit,

and Arts Council

New

for

in several

York; 1947, one-man

London and

of Great Britain,

taught intermittently; 1954, special exhibition, Venice Biennale; since

the war, has alternated between

American and European

which have always played

done

subjects; has also

for magazines; represented in collections throughout the U. S.;

was

began

of

own

is

known

illustrating

for his interest in

a part in his painting; lives in Roosevelt,

New

Jersey.

1898, born in Chihuahua, Mexico; as a reward for loyalty to Carranza during military revolu-

HANDS, I949

Museum

1915-18, served in the

Dalmatia and Paris; 1930.

came to U. S.; worked during day at lithography,

York University and City College of New York:

done murals

tion,

lent by the

style

monumental

New

Farm

social issues,

duco on composition board,

Italy,

did

and sculpture.

on murals for Rockefeller Center,

circuit; since 1947, has

Museum

lent by the Baltimore

common;

Academy of Design; 1925-29, spent much time in France and North

one-man exhibitions in New York; 1933, worked for Diego Rivera

eastern cities; 1944, 1949, 1951,

on

to paint-

Africa; 1930, 1932, 1933,

by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

tempera

in

returned to Berlin, where he taught in his

1898, born in Kaunas, Lithuania; 1906,

MIAN LANDSCAPE, I943-44

1923-29, visited

live;

in mosaics, tapestries, stained glass

attended high school at night: attended

tempera on paper, 2yVix^b"

work done

which he turned

1905-10, his painting

black and white, often using religious subject matter;

German Academy, Rome:

works

themes, but without the violence

of the founders of Die Briicke:

war, after which he returned to Berlin to

Louis

his

become more numerous.

Art,

New

sent to

to notice

Europe

as a military attache

his paintings;

paratory School, Mexico City;

and served

in

in

also executed frescoes

political activities in

War; has

many

Paris,
first

1924, his frescoes mutilated during student

anger for Guadalajara, where he inaugurated politico-social

cates;

Madrid and

1922, returned to Mexico City; painted

in chapel

activities

among

where dealers
mural

riot,

he

at

Pre-

left

in

workers' syndi-

and old university, Guadalajara; has been involved

countries; 1938, in Spain; served with Loyalist forces in Civil

traveled and painted in South America and

the U. S.; shares

exhibition at Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City, with Orozco and Rivera:
prize in oil painting, Venice Biennale.

permanent mural
1950, took second

DAVID SMITH

[906, born in Decatur, Indiana: studied at

and Art Students League: spent

CLOISTRAL LANDSCAPE,

bronze and
lent

Gonzalez suggested use of iron and forge

946
12" high

stainless steel,

by the Willard Gallery,

New

Yor/{

had workshop
York: 1941,
15

one-man

and study

up

own workshop

his

exhibitions, including

in

Europe: example of work by

for sculpture: 193.5, did first steel sculpture: 1934-41,

Terminal Iron Works. Brooklyn: 1938,

in

set

Ohio University, George Washington University

a year of travel

in

first

Bolton Landing,

one-man

New

Walker Art Center, Skidmore College and Albany

and Art; 1950-51. twice received Guggenheim fellowship;

of History

CHAIM SOUTINE

Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Detroit

Walker Art Center and others: lives in Bolton Landing, New York.

1894, born at Smilovich near Minsk:

Academy
PEASANT BOY, I9I9
oil

from the

Ralph

of

New

Mr. and Mrs

York

and

oil

LOOP, N.I).

IJL

on canvas, 24V* xjj'

in

where he

the Pvrenees-Oricntales.

Touraine, where he continued

in a village in the

lifes

still

during the

portraits; 1927, painted series of choir boys: 1940,

(icrman Occupation, took refuge

at

Modigliani, Chagall and Kisling: 1919, the collector

a friend of

and numerous

him

befriended

to venerate Tintoretto,

almost three years producing frenzied, distorted landscapes: also painted

staved

of dead animals

CORCl

who had

where he came

patron Zborowski sent him to paint at Ceret

art

Institute of

1908, went to Vilna for two years of study at the

with funds supplied by a doctor

1,

Rembrandt and Courbet: was

collection

Colin.

F.

191

Vilna, he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris,

on canvas, 24I/2X21"

lent

of Fine Arts;

Institute

represented in col-

is

lections of

Arts.

New

exhibition in

York: has had more than

to paint

"

landscapes: consistently refused to exhibit during his

work: died

lent by the Phillips Collection,

in

because of dissatisfaction with his

life

1943.

Washington, D. C.

GRAHAM SUTHERLAND

1903, born in London; studied at Goldsmith's School of Art: concentrated on etching and

came under

illustrating for several years:

CRUCIFIXION, I'/47
oil

Palmer and of the

on canvas, 22x18"

lent by Mr.

change: nature seemed to suggest to him

and Mrs. Robert

U'cstniotint

L. Cardoso,

Quebec

new

Amsterdam

HAROLD TOVISH

1921, born

1955

ican

marked

1944, commissioned to

"The Origins

of the Earth,"

comprehensive retrospective exhibitions have been shown

1952). Musec Nationale de l'Art Moderne, Paris (1952), Stedelijk

New

111

York: 1938, began serious study of sculpture; studied with

Columbia University

as a scholarship student:

army; 1947-49, taught sculpture

at

with Ossip Zadkine and

at

Paris; studied

lent by the artist. Violence

at the

Museum.

1953).

Project and at

bronze, H 7 X4i"

showed

psychic universe of strange forms and colors:

has also devoted considerable time to portraiture in recent years;

Venice Bicnnalc

I.

decorate a church at Northampton: 1951. painted a large panel,

for the Festival of Britain;

PARABLE

the influence of William Blake and his disciple Samuel

Surrealists; 1936, after a visit to Pembrokeshire, his style

sculpture at University of Minnesota:

exhibited at Galerie

8, Paris,

and

at

New York

1949-51, in

exhibition,

museums throughout

Walker Art Center; has

the country including Metropolitan

Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Denver
Museum and San Francisco Art Association; is presently working in Florence.

MAX WEBER

1881, born in Bialystok, Poland; 1891,

traveled in Spain, Italy, the

WAYFARERS, 1944
oil on canvas, 26%xj2%"
lent by Mr.

Xri<

returned to U.
all

and Mrs. Otto Spaeth.

Yorl;

of

S.

sionistic

c.

his

work

of the next

1918, returned to a

to

U.

S.:

studied at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn;

more

few

years; after 191

1,

tribal

his style

manner and developed

representational

sculpture,

became

increas-

his exprcs-

won numerous prizes; represented in many collections including

Museum of Modern Art. Whitney Museum of American Art,
Los Angeles County Museum. Baltimore Museum of Art and Walker

has

figure style;

Metropolitan

came

Art

Countries: 1905-08, in Paris; studied with Matisse; 1908,

impressed by El Greco, Cezanne, the Fauvcs and African

which influenced

ingly cubistic;

Low

Art

Amer-

Grande Chaumierc; 1951-54, taught

la

one-man

WPA

served in

II,

State College of Ceramics;

Academie de
iv5i.

World War

Museum

of Art.

Art Institute of Chicago,

Art Center.

KARL ZERBE

1905, born in Berlin; 1922-26, studied in

PORTRAH OF KOKOSCHKA, 1 949

polymer-tempera on panel, 40x24
lent by the

Alan Gallery,

New

York

one-man

Munich and

ItaK

1934,

came

a citizen; first

versity;

1936-37, lived in Mexico; 1938, trip to Europe; 1943, received

of

Contemporary

Festival

of Arts;

Modern

Art,

exhibition in U. S. at

U.

to

Germanic Museum

become

first

Art, Boston; 1948, third prize at Carnegie Institute; 1953.

is

represented in collections of Metropolitan

Whitney Museum

Museum and many

of

American Art, Art

Museum

Institute of Chicago.

of

and has

since

Harvard Uni-

prize at Institute
first

Art,

prize, Boston

Museum

of

Los Angeles County

others; head of department of painting. School of the

Arts in Boston: lives in Belmont, Mass.

S.

of

Museum

of Fine

CATALOG OF WORKS EXHIBITED AT THE

WALKER ART CENTER ONLY

LENDERS

The

.l.C.

I.

Cleveland

Downtown
lery;

Gallery;

Museum
Gallery;

The Albright Art

of

In; Collection of Mr.

Walter P. Chrysler,

of Art;

Jr.;

The

Mr. Montfort Dunn; Durlacher Brothers; The Fetgl Gal-

Mr. Paul Granlund; Collection

Gallery;

Museum

Gallery; Baltimore

of

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kaye; The Kootz

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Mas/on; Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May; The

Minneapolis Institute of

Irts;

The

University of Nebraska

Charles Bolles Rogers; Mr. Samuel Rosenberg;

The

lit Galleries;

Stable Gallery;

Mr.

The Walter

Art Center; lone and Hudson Walter; Yale University Art Gallery; Collection
of

Mr. and Mrs. Charles

'Zadol{.

FRANCIS BACON

iyio, born in Dublin: spent youth in Ireland, has since lived in England:
first

became known

London: 1952,

visited Africa;

pletely self-taught as artist:

PORTRAIT OF

BUSINESSMAN, 1955

on canvas, 23x19"

oil

Hanover

tion,

New

Brothers,

New

lent by Durlacher Brothers,

Yorl^

New

Monte

on canvas, 2y

oil

lent

1889, born in Krefeld,

home

his

Anonymc,

Collection of the Societe

New Haven

Germany; studied with Dutch

The

part of each

who

painter Jan Thorn-Prikker,

where he worked alone; 191

in Krefeld,

Der Blaue

invited to join

with his family

work

Reiter;

1,

work

his

called

Sceshaupt on the Starnberger See; 1920,

at

seen by Kandinsky and Marc,

World War

interrupted by

New

91 7, born in

New

member

settings; only living

York; studied

at

National

of

Der Blaue

Academy

lent by the Stable Gallery,

New

U.

S.

settled

where he saw
where

to Krefeld,

Reiter.

of Design

and Art Students League

in

York, and in Rome; 1941, was awarded Prix de Rome: 1950, received Fulbright grant;

has traveled in Italy, France, Switzerland and England;

11; 5

on paper mounted on wood, 27x41"

which he

after

I,

first trip to Italy,

Ravenna mosaics and works by Giotto and Fra Angelico; 1922, returned

NICHOLAS CARONE
7,

in exhibition

London and spends

circuit; lives in

Cezanne, Van Gogh, Fra Angelico and Giotto; learned techniques of mural

he designed stage

oil

Modern Art and

of

exhibi-

exhibition, Durlacher

painting and stained glass working as assistant in Cathedral of Osnabriick; 1910, returned to

924

Ax^4 ,A"

by the Yale University Art Gallery,

HEAD NO.

one-man

1953,

almost com-

is

one-man

Carlo.

his attention to

THE WOODCARVER,

as painter; 1949, first

York; 1954, exhibited in Venice Biennale; 1955, included

Decade, Museum

vear in

HEINRICH CAMPENDONK

Gallery,

1945,

c.

and Rome; teaches privately;

lives in East

is

represented in private collections in

Hampton, Long

Island,

New

York.

Yor\

MARC CHAGALL*
THE FLYING
oil

FISH,
948
on canvas, 26x25^/2"

lent

by the

Room

of

Contemporary Art,

Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo

ARTHUR DOVE

1880, born in Canandaigua,

SUNSET NO.
oil

3,

N.D.

York; studied painting

at

age 9 with private tutor; attended

for a time sup-

ported his painting by farming and commercial illustration; was friend of Alfred Stieglitz,

on canvas, 24 7 s. >,,-'

lent

New

and public schools; 1903, was graduated from Cornell University:

private
"
at

by the Yale University Art Gallery,

Collection of the Societe

Anonymc,

whose "291"

gallery he

had

his first

Stieglitz galleries;

achieved success

public; died 1946:

is

late

represented in

one-man
in

many

life

exhibition;

1912-46, had annual show at

an unresponsive

after years of exhibiting to

public and private American collections.

New Haven
PHILIP

EVERGOOD

901, born in

New

York; studied

at Slade School

York and Academie

Julian

WOMAN

received prizes from

Art Institute of Chicago;

oil

Academy

AT SEA, 1 954
on canvas, 54x25"

lent by the A. C. A. Gallery,

New

Yorl{

in

New

London, Art Students League of

1935 and 1946,

has traveled extensively in Europe;

1949, was awarded medal by Pennsylvania

of the Fine Arts and second prize in Carnegie Institute show; 1951, received

Long

prize in

Paris;

in

Island Art Festival

and second purchase prize

at

first

Corcoran Gallery of Art

in

C; is represented in collections of Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum

American Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Art Institute of Chicago and elsewhere;

Washington, D.
of

lives in

ALBERTO GIACOMETTI

90

at

HEAD OF DIEGO,

I J/4"
from the

born in Stampa, Switzerland; son of noted Swiss painter, Giovanni Giacometti; studied

Ecole des Arts

worked

954

bronze,
lent

1,

Southbury, Connecticut.

c.

collection

of Mr.

and Mrs

Charles Zadol{, Milwau\ee

ct

Metiers,

Geneva, and

in

years in studio of Bourdelle;

1930, joined Surrealists; 1935-40,

heads and figures;

in

LEON GOLUB

several

1955.

Venice and Rome;

after

moved

1922,

to

Paris;

1926, did quasi-abstract constructions;

worked from model, beginning long

series of

important retrospective exhibition, Guggenheim

elongated

Museum;

lives

Paris.

1922, born in Chicago; studied at University of Chicago and Art Institute of Chicago; 1944-45,

with

served

BURNT MAN NO. 2, I954

oil and rubber on board 48x20"
,

lent by the Feigl Gallery,

New

York,

Gallery,

pany,

American army

Chicago,

New

in

Europe;

Purdue University,

1950-54,

one-man

Bordelon Gallery,

exhibitions

Chicago,

York, Kerrigan-Hendricks Gallery, Chicago, and

Artists'

has exhibited in group shows at Pennsylvania Academy, Brooklyn

Manitoba, Heidelberg, Germany, Mexico City, Guggenheim

at

Contemporary

Gallery,

Museum,

Museum and

Wright Junior College, Chicago, and Northwestern University.

at

Wittenborn

and Com-

New

York;

University of

elsewhere; teaches

PAUL GRANLUND

1925, born in Minneapolis;

Army

1943-46, served in U. S.

Air Force; studied

Gustavus

at

Adolphus College and University of Minnesota; 1953-54, attended Cranbrook Academy

DISSOLUTION, H*55

Art as scholarship student;

bronze, 8"

one-man

lent by the artist, Minneapolis

Cranbrook Academy of Art;

exhibition,

1954-55, received Fulbright grant to study in Italy;

Walker Art Center; has taught sculpture

Cranbrook Academy of Art

1956,

of

first

Minnesota and

at University of

represented in collections of Minneapolis Institute of Arts and

is

Galleries; teaches sculpture at Minneapolis School of Art; lives in

Minneapolis.

WILLIAM CROPPER

New

1897, born in

York;

of Design, Ferrer School

DON QUIXOTE AT THI WINDMILL, N.I).

lent by Mr.

and Mrs. Samuel Maslon,

Wayzata, Minnesota

New York

icals;

artist for several

New

York

many awards and

has received

Guggenheim

1937, received
Island,

New

School of Fine and Applied Arts; was impressed by

Howard

Robert Henri, George Bellows and

newspaper

on masonite, 12x16"

oil

Academy

in spite of great financial difficulties, studied at National

and

Giles

among

daily papers; has

them

prizes, several of

from 191 9, worked

his teachers;

done cartoons

for

and drawings;

for lithographs

Long

fellowship; has done murals for post office at Frceport,

York, Northwestern Postal Station

Detroit, Michigan,

in

as

numerous period-

new Department

of

the Interior building in Washington, D. C. and Schenley Corporation; 1954, published port-

American

folio of lithographs of

museums

DAVID HARE

U.

S.

THE ROOSTER, 1947

New

bronze, 28x14"

to

Kootz Gallery.

New

Yorli

do

in

and Europe;

New

1916, born in
first

lent by the

in

folklore; also writes;

York; attended school

color photography:

1939 and

New

in

work

represented in more than thirty-five

New

York.

York, Colorado and California; worked

one-man

1940,

exhibitions of color photographs in

New

York; 1941, published portfolio on Indians of

sculpture, taking surrealist

is

Croton-on-Hudson,

lives in

Mexico and Arizona; 1942, began

of Giacometti as point of departure; 1951-52, lived in

New

France: has exhibited extensively: lives in

York.

MARSDEN HARTLEY*
MILITARY, I913

on canvas, ^g Axjg A"

by lone and Hudson Walter, courtesy
l

oil

lent

of the University Gallery, University of

Minnesota

HERBERT KATZMAN

1923, born in Chicago; as a child, took art classes at Art Institute of Chicago and decided
to

BROOKLYN BRIDGE, I95I-52

oil

by the

1940-42, enrolled in Institute's adult classes: 1942-44, served in U.

a painter;

Downtown

Gallery, h'cie Yorl<

worked independently

Museum

ROGER KUNTZ

of

Modern

for

II.

1926, born in Texas;

Dl

LA

CI IT

NO.

I,

1954

lent by >he

Landau

in

Gallery, Los Angeles

moved

to

New

oil

on canvas, 4iVt,xyiVz"

lent by the

Walter Art Center, Minneapolis

included

in

15

Europe, chiefly Paris;

Americans

exhibition.

New

York.

War

II,

served

in

Claremont, California: 1950, studied and traveled

Claremont, San Diego, Los Angeles,

in

Museum and

Dallas

Museum:

is

represented in

manv

private collections; teaches at Scripps College.

1880, born in Ried,

10,11

Bill" funds, lived in

York: has received prizes from National Academy of Design, Denver

Germany; studied

impressionism during a stay

THE BLUE HORSES,

I.

1952,

southern California as a child; World

at Scripps College,

Art Museum, Los Angeles County

museums and

FRANZ MARC

part:

Europe; since 1950, has had one-man exhibitions

Pasadena and

on canvas, 36x36

most

the

S.

Art Institute of Chicago; 1947-50, with the help of John

Art: has exhibited widely in group exhibitions; lives in

American army; studied

oil

at

Quincy Adams Traveling Fellowship and "G.

on canvas, 54x60"

lent

become

Navy; 1944-46, resumed studies

Munich; 1909, during second

August Macke,

in

at

Paris:

Academy

was

visit to Paris,

who remained

also

in

Munich: 1903, came

in contact

contact with Jugendstil

with

movement

in

was strongly impressed by Van Gogh; 1910, met

his best friend;

lished the Blaue Reiter almanac;

in

also

knew Kandinsky, with whom

he pub-

1911-14, found subject matter in animals, whose nobility

and innocence he greatly admired; most important influence on formal aspect of his work
was that of Delaunay; 1913, forms in his paintings began to interpenetrate and become
crystalline; 1914,
I;

began producing deeply

1916. was killed

at

Verdun.

lyrical abstract

compositions: fought in World

War

CORRADO

Dl

MARCA-RELLI

1913, born in Boston. Massachusetts; spent childhood in Europe; 1927, returned to U.

studied

SEATED FIGURE,
collage,

New

York

Yale University;

DOG, 1950

in

bronze, 5"

St.

first

one-man

New

Rome,

Gallery and Stable Gallery;

Art Institute of Chicago; 1954-55, appointed visiting art

at

Hampton, Long

lives in East

New

Island,

war and studied

Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May,

of

and teacher

at the

in

912-18, served in

Weimar while

later

met and came under

German army; was wounded

recovering, working on woodcuts and

wood-

to avoid

School of Arts and Crafts at Halle, Saxony; 1933, was dismissed and

World War

called degenerate;

burg

Bauhaus

at

critic at

York.

1919, appointed director of Ceramics Department, Bauhaus; 1925-33, was director

carvings:

Louis

George Kolbe and August Gaul;

S.;

Niveau Gallery; 1949-53, one-man

exhibition,

1889. born in Berlin: studied under sculptor Richard Schiebe;

influence of

lent by

1948,

won Logan Award

1954,

GERHARD MARCKS
MAD

York:

exhibitions at Niveau Gallery, Cortile Gallery in

955

2$x2o"

by the Stable Gallery,

lent

New

in

the Russians;

II,

much

of his

work destroyed by bombs; 1945,

fled to

Ham-

1949, completed figures for niches on facade of 14th-century

Catherine Church, Lubeck; also has done memorials to the dead in Hamburg, Cologne and

Mannheim;

ANDRE MASSON

on canvas, 40.x $o lA

from the

Chrysler,

Jr.,

1919, settled in Paris;

Italy;

Germany and Holland;

collection of

New

to

1924,

Andre Breton, Miro, Max Ernst and

GLACIER ET TORRENT, 1949

lent

Cologne.

1896, born at Balagny, France: studied in Brussels and at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris; 1914,
trip

oil

lives in

Mr. Walter

P.

York.

first

1924-28, met

exhibition at Galerie Simon;

others; exhibited with Surrealists;

1929-32, traveled to

1933, exhibited with Miro at Pierre Matisse Gallery,

New

1934-36, stayed in Catalonia; 1937, returned to France; second surrealist period;

in

U.

York:

1942-45,

did graphic work; 1946, returned to France: did theater design: 1947, settled in

S.;

Aix-en-Provence; 1949, illustrated The Conquerors by Andre Malraux; 1950, large exhibition

with Giacomctti

at Kunsthalle, Basel:

1955,

one-man

exhibition in London.

HENRI MATISSE*
BLUE NUDE,

C.

1907

on canvas, jC'i-Vjj's"

oil

lent by the Baltimore

Cone

Museum

of Art,

collection

ALFRED MAURER

1868, born in

nings

NUDE,
oil

C.

I927

on composition board, jyx24"

lent by lone

and Hudson Walker, courtesy

New

National

at

1901,

won

1909,

first

first

York;

Academy

prize,

school to

left

work

of Design; 1897,

in family lithographic business; studied eve-

went

one-man exhibition with John Marin

one-man exhibition

to Paris; studied briefly at

Carnegie International; 1905, received awards

Folsom Galleries

at

in

at

New

York: exhibited

exhibited with Society of Independent Artists for the

Minnesota

E.

oil

man

back rent; 1928, began

exhibition at Weyhe's;

New

time; 1924,

Julian;

York; 1913,

Armory Show;

exhibited at his gallery several times in subsequent years;

his Paris studio sold for

mead, 1929

first

in

Academie

Munich and Liege;

Photo-Secession Gallery,

of the University Gallery, University of

Weyhe and

in

1917,

was "discovered"' by
c.

1925, contents of

to paint less because of illness; 1931, last one-

1932, committed suicide.

on gesso panel, 21 Vgxi8"

lent by lone

and Hudson Walker, courtesy

of the University Gallery, University of

Minnesota

HENRY MOORE

1898, born at Castleford, Yorkshire, England; 1916, taught elementary school at Castleford:

WARRIOR WITH SHIELD, 1955-54

bronze, 64"

College of Art as scholarship student; visited British

lent by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

executed

1917-19, served in army: 1919-21, attended Leeds School of Art; 1921-25, attended Royal

and

first

war

Child for

Modern
1951

artist;

St.

became famous

at

for shelter drawings;

awarded International Sculpture

Musee Nationale dc

Festival of Britain:

Hertfordshire.

Royal College of Art; 1928,

Underground Building,

London; 1931, professor

Gallery,

frequently; 1925, visited Paris

at

St.

James' Park;

first

Chelsea School of Art; 1940-42,

1943-44. executed

Madonna and
Museum of

Matthew's Church, Northampton; 1946, retrospective exhibition,

Art; 1948,

exhibition,
for

public commission, a relief for the

Warren

exhibition at
official

Museum

on traveling scholarship; 1926-31, taught sculpture

Italy

I'Art

Moderne,

Prize, Venice Biennale; 1950, retrospective

Paris;

1950-51, executed "Reclining Figure"

1951, retrospective exhibition, Tate Gallery, London: lives in

JOSI-.

CLEMENTE OROZCO*

CRUCIFIXION, N.I).
oil

on canvas,

24.x j6"

by Mr. Charles Holies Rogers,

lent

Minneapolis

ABRAHAM RATTNER*
THE HENCHMAN,
oil

1 944
on canvas, 28]ax2^

St.

A"

Montjort Dunn, Marine-on-the-

lent by Mr.

Croix, Minnesota

SAMUKL ROSENBERG
THE WORD, 1949
oil

1917-28, founded

1896, born in Philadelphia; studied at Carnegie Institute of Technology;

anil directed Irene

Kaufmann

in Pittsburgh,

New

and elsewhere; has exhibited widely

lent by the artist, Pittsburgh

in collections of

many

first

one-man

exhibition, Carnegie

1937-45. director of art department, Pennsylvania College for

Institute;

one-man exhibitions

on masonite, 30x25"

Settlement Art School; 1922,

others;

is

Carnegie

in

Institute,

Women;

1937-55.

York, Youngstown, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland

group exhibitions throughout the U.

S.; is

represented

Encyclopaedia Britannica, University of Pittsburgh and

professor of painting and design at Carnegie Institute; lives in Pittsburgh.

GEORGES ROUAULT*
1

RUCIl IXION, ly22-24

oil

on canvas,

^ /zX2t)Yi
l

lent by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

EGON SCHIELE

1890, born in Tulln, Austria; as a child, had exceptional thawing ability; .studied at
of Fine Arts, Vienna;

PORTRAIT
oil

Ol

PARIS VON GUETERSLOH,

9I8

on canvas, 55 xA x 4iVz
by the Minneapolis Institute oj Arts

lent

GERARD SCHNEIDER

oil

dominant

lent by the

Kootz Gallery,

figure in Austrian art;

St.

Croix, Switzerland:

Yor/<

exhibition;

II.

attracted

serious

early initiated by his father into techniques of

painting,

went

to
to

c.

ROYAL BIRD, I948

21

%"

lent by the

Walter Art Center, Minneapolis

studied at Ecole des Arts

Switzerland;

1920,

first

one-man

1935, painted in semi-abstract style with surrealist overtones; during

volunteered services to French government;

wide attention immediately

group exhibitions;

steel,

and mural painting; 1916-19,

Paris;

after

c.

1944,

is

worked

war; 1946, exhibited

group exhibition, Galeric Denise Rene: 1948, became French

DAVID SMITH'

to pro-

Vienna, Berlin and

1922, returned to Paris; resumed restoring and decorating but continued his per-

sona! research:

War

to

was

also learned restoration

and Ecole des Beaux-Arts; 1919, returned

Decoratifs

New

Academy

began

191 8, died during influenza epidemic.

and 18th-century craftsmanship:

wishing to devote himself

on canvas, ^8^/2x2^/2"

in

art,

Prague; 1915-17, served in Austrian army; took up painting again after the war and became
a

1896, born in

MAY, 1955

Van Gogh's

vitality of

duce vast numbers of drawings and paintings; gained recognition

17th-

PAINTING

was greatly impressed by the

in

World

in totally abstract style:

first

post-war abstract

citizen; has exhibited widely in

represented in important European collections.

PIERRE SOULAGES

1919, born in Rodez, France; began to paint after completing high school (lycee) studies

1938, visited Paris and saw

PAINTING
oil

DECEMBER

4,

on canvas, 51XJ8"

lent

from the

1949,
of Mr.

collection

Harold Kaye,

New

work by

army; during Occupation, worked

954

and Mrs.

Yorl{

one-man

first

Copenhagen; did

exhibition,

Munich; included

York; included

Museum;

France

central

first

as

time;
a

1939-40, served in French

farmer;

1946, settled in Paris;

exhibition, Galerie Lydia Conti; did designs for ballet;

exhibition,

New

Picasso for the

in

stage sets for a play

in

1951,

one-man

produced by Louis Jouvet; 1952, one-man

Venice Biennale; 1954, one-man exhibition, Kootz Gallery,

in exhibition

Younger European Painters, Solomon R. Guggenheim

The New Decade, Museum of Modern Art and circuit;

1955, included in exhibition

lives in Paris.

GRAHAM SUTHERLAND*
PALM AND HOUSE, 1947
oil

on canvas, 4^ ,Axs6

/2

"

lent by the University of

Nebraska Art

Galleries, Lincoln

RUFINO TAMAYO

1899, born in Oaxaca, Mexico; studied at the

Academy

of Fine

Arts,

Mexico City; 1921,

appointed head of the Department of Ethnographic Drawing in the National

WOMEN REACHING
oil

FOR THE MOON, I946

on canvas, 36V4X26"

lent by the Cleveland

of

Hanna Fund

Museum

Archeology; 1928, became professor

in 1926,

of Art, gilt

until

made

1953;

is

the

Academy

represented in

the
cities:

lives in

EXPRESSIONISM

bition assistants,

at the

New

Museum

of

Mexico City; beginning

York, remaining in the U.

S.

New

York,

Walker Art Center by Hulclah Curl;

exhi-

permanent

collections of

Mexico

museums

in

Paris,

City.

to catalog of traveling exhibition for

Installation of

of Fine Arts,

several visits to the U. S.; 1938, settled in

Chicago and seventeen other

*Refer

at

biography.

John Anderson, Dorothy Berge, William CofTIand, Edwin Folstad

and Richard Sussman; Publicity Director, Elizabeth Morgan.

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York: The World Publishing Company, 1942

Pciniiirc Francaise

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Troisieme. Paris:

Librarie Gallimard, 1946

Duthuit, Georges.

The

Fauvist Painters.

Haftmann, Werner. Malerei im

New

York: Wittcnborn, Schultz,

Hazan, Fernand, ed. Dictionary of Modern Painting.

c.

1950

New

York: Paris Book Center,

Inc.,

1955

Heilmaier, Hans. Ko/(osch/(a. Paris: Les Editions G. Cres

Wasmuth

Kootz, Samuel M. Modern American Painters. Norwood, Mass.:

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New

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1954

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Solomon

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of

American Art:

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