With Friends
With Friends

Author: Robert Cozzolino

Publisher: Chazen Museum of Art

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780932900005

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This exhibition catalogue focuses on the art and friendships of the American artists Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977), Sylvia Fein (b. 1919), Marshall Glasier (1902-1988), Dudley Huppler (1917-1988), Karl Priebe (1914-1976), and John Wilde (b. 1919). The first intensive study of this close-knit group explores the artistic and personal relationships they shared. Cozzolino provides insight into a figurative branch of postwar American modernism that has been often neglected in favor of abstract expressionism. Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Complete Graphic Work of Jack Levine
The Complete Graphic Work of Jack Levine

Author: Jack Levine

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1984-01-01

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0486244814

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This volume features the never-before-published prints of corrupt politicians, gangsters, Hebrew sages, fascist generals, mythological figures, and much more by the major American artist and social commentator, Jack Levine. Plate-by-plate commentaries. Introduction. Biographical Outline. 84 black-and-white illustrations.

Monumental Dreams
Monumental Dreams

Author: Caroline Seebohm

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2014-04-29

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0813047609

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In 1929, the Museum of Modern Art opened its doors, showing the astonishing paintings of Picasso, Matisse, and other avant garde artists. Young American artists quickly responded by experimenting with impressionism, cubism, and abstraction. In Monumental Dreams, author Caroline Seebohm tells the riveting story of how Ann Norton (1905–1982)—a child of the South who had eschewed her Alabama roots to become a sculptor in New York City—joined this new guard. She studied with John Hovannes and Jose de Creeft and was studio assistant to Alexander Archipenko. Her work was well received, and by age 35, she had already participated in group shows at MOMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Despite her burgeoning career, Norton found New York a difficult place to live. In search of paying work, she moved to Florida, where she became a teacher at the Norton Gallery and School of Art, founded by retired Acme Steel president Ralph Hubbard Norton. The two built a relationship based on love as well as common aesthetic values, and after his death, she built her finest and lasting work. Today, her monolithic sculptures—in the spirit of Stonehenge, Henry Moore, and Buddhist temple art—can be admired in the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens.