Morris Dickstein

Barbara Haskell

Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York is the first major assessment of the work of 'American Scene' artist Reginald Marsh (1898-1954) in over 30 years. Focusing on 60 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and sketches, drawn from public and

Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York

Swing Time

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Sept. 16-Dec. 5, 1982.

Milton Avery

Whitney Museum of American Art

John G. Hanhardt

Discusses new developments in painting, sculpture, performance, art and dance

Blam! the Explosion of Pop, Minimalism, and Performance, 1958-1964

Yōko Ono

Yōko Ono, Objects, Films

Ralston Crawford

The social and political climate in which Wood's art flourished bears certain striking similarities to America today, as national identity and the tension between urban and rural areas reemerge as polarizing issues in a country facing the consequences of globalization and the technological revolution. Wood portrayed the tension and alienation of contemporary experience. By fusing meticulously observed reality with fables of childhood, he crafted unsettling images of estrangement and apprehension that pictorially manifest the anxiety of modern life.

American Gothic and Other Fables

Grant Wood

Oscar Bluemner

Ulrich Birkmaier

"Barbara Haskell's full-scale, scholarly study of Bluemner's work, along with the major retrospective it accompanies, examines his evolution from budding architect to modernist innovator. Mining the artist's personal diaries and unearthing new research, she illuminates his entire oeuvre, including the vivid, richly symbolic landscapes that established Bluemner as a leading artist of his day. Insightful anecdotes and fresh perspectives also reveal his struggles as an immigrant, his turbulent relationship with Stieglitz, and the eccentricities that inspired his most deeply personal work." "With an essay by conservator Ulrich Birkmaier on Bluemner's innovative painting techniques, a selection of the artist's writings, and an array of illustrations, this monograph offers a portrait of an unsung master - an artist who belongs in the first rank of American early-twentieth-century modernism."--BOOK JACKET.

A Passion for Color

Arthur Garfield Dove

Arthur Dove

Mark A. Castro

An in-depth look at the transformative influence of Mexican artists on their U.S. counterparts during a period of social change The first half of the 20th century saw prolific cultural exchange between the United States and Mexico, as artists and intellectuals traversed the countries' shared border in both directions. For U.S. artists, Mexico's monumental public murals portraying social and political subject matter offered an alternative aesthetic at a time when artists were seeking to connect with a public deeply affected by the Great Depression. The Mexican influence grew as the artists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros traveled to the United States to exhibit, sell their work, and make large-scale murals, working side-by-side with local artists, who often served as their assistants, and teaching them the fresco technique. Vida Americana examines the impact of their work on more than 70 artists, including Marion Greenwood, Philip Guston, Isamu Noguchi, Jackson Pollock, and Charles White. It provides a new understanding of art history, one that acknowledges the wide-ranging and profound influence the Mexican muralists had on the style, subject matter, and ideology of art in the United States between 1925 and 1945.

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