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The Lives, Loves, and Art of Arthur B. Davies

By: Bennard B. Perlman

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The Lives, Loves, and Art of Arthur B. Davies

By: Bennard B. Perlman

This is the first full-length biography of the American artist Arthur B. Davies, who played a major role in twentieth-century American art's coming-of-age. It was Davies who made possible the landmark exhibitions of The Eight and The Rockwell Kent Independent, and in 1913 he emerged as the mastermind behind the Armory Show, the first large-scale display of European modern art in the United States. Dozens of the country's best-known collectors purchased their initial avant-garde acquisitions at this show, and U.S. artists, in turn, could no longer be kept in check by the conservative National Academy after viewing works by Duchamp, Matisse, Picasso, and others. Drawing on extensive archival research, including previously unavailable letters and diaries, this book covers the breadth and depth of the artist's life and career, from his boyhood in Utica in the 1860s; through his close association with such artists and collectors as Robert Henri, John Sloan, Alfred Stieglitz, Lizzie Bliss, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller; to his death in Italy in 1928 in the company of his mistress, with whom he had lived a secret double life as "David A. Owen" for more than twenty years. Included are 101 color and black-and-white illustrations of Davies's own work, ranging from romantic dream visions to fragmented cubist forms, as well as photographs depicting his family and friends. Davies, who worked in over twenty different media, was called "one of the foremost artists in this country" and "one of the greatest artists of our time," and his work is represented in major collections throughout the United States. The illustrations alone, many of works in private collections and available here to the public for the first time, as well as the appended chronology, exhibition checklist, and list of addresses, make this a valuable addition to the library of every art dealer, curator, and student of American art. But equally fascinating is the story of the forces, personalities, and relationships that helped shape the course of twentieth-century American art.

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State University of New York Press

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1438415877

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Painters of the Ashcan School

The Immortal Eight

By: Bennard B. Perlman

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Painters of the Ashcan School

The Immortal Eight

By: Bennard B. Perlman

Lively, scholarly, beautifully illustrated study of the 8 artists who brought a compelling new realism to American painting, 1870 to 1913. Henri, Glackens, Sloan, Luks, 4 more. 142 black-and-white illustrations.

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Courier Corporation

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0486158497

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9780486158495

American Artists, Authors, and Collectors

The Walter Pach Letters 1906-1958

By: Bennard B. Perlman,Walter Pach

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American Artists, Authors, and Collectors

The Walter Pach Letters 1906-1958

By: Bennard B. Perlman,Walter Pach

Offers a behind-the-scenes look at a significant era in the development and emergence of modern American art.

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SUNY Press

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0791452948

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9780791452943

The Lives, Loves, and Art of Arthur B. Davies

By: Bennard B. Perlman

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American Artists, Authors, and Collectors

The Walter Pach Letters 1906-1958

By: Bennard B. Perlman

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The Walter Pach Letters 1906-1958

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Sharing for the first time the life-long correspondence between Walter Pach—artist, author, art critic, art consultant, teacher, museum lecturer—and many of the most influential members of the literary and art worlds of his day, this book reveals Pach to be one of the unsung heroes who promoted European and American modern art during the first half of the twentieth century.

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