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Title
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The Weyhe Gallery between the wars, 1919-1940.
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Identifier
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AAI9707163
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identifier
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9707163
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Creator
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Williams, Reba White.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Marlene Park
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Date
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1996
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Art History | History, United States
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Abstract
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Although few U.S. artists made prints between 1900 and 1915, artists' interest in printmaking revived around 1917-1918. In 1919, Erhard Weyhe, a New York dealer in art books and prints sold through catalogues, opened a gallery specializing in American prints, and hired Carl Zigrosser to manage it. Among the first artists exhibiting at the gallery were Arthur B. Davies, John Marin, Joseph Stella, George Biddle, Adolf Dehn and Rockwell Kent. The gallery became recognized for its frequent exhibition of works on paper, and Erhard Weyhe became known as a patron of artists when he acquired Alfred Maurer's entire oeuvre and arranged to pay Maurer a stipend, which continued until the artist's death. Weyhe similarly supported Emil Ganso, Vincent Canade, and John Flannagan.;Other artists associated with the gallery in the 1920s and 1930s included Arnold Ronnebeck, Walt Kuhn, Pop Hart, Wanda Gag, Jules Pascin, Reginald Marsh, Andree Ruellan, Benton Spruance, Howard Cook, Mabel Dwight, Peggy Bacon, Harry Sternberg, Federico Castellon, Victoria Huntley, Louis Lozowick, and Caroline Durieux. One of the gallery's most important publications, Illustrated Catalogue of Lithographs, Engravings and Etchings Published by the Weyhe Gallery, 1928, included 210 prints by forty-eight artists, signifying the gallery's important role in print publishing.;The gallery was best known as a sponsor of U.S. artists, but it also exhibited the work of Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and other Mexicans. The gallery also dealt in sculpture, notably the work of Alexander Calder, Wharton Esherick, Harry Wickey, Heinz Warneke, and the previously mentioned John Flannagan and Arnold Ronnebeck.;The business of the Weyhe gallery declined during the depression, and the number of exhibitions was greatly reduced. In 1940 Zigrosser resigned to join the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but Erhard Weyhe took an active role in the gallery until his death in 1972. In 1996, his daughter, Gertrude Weyhe Dennis, saw clients by appointment at the gallery, where prints and sculpture by many of the artists cited can still be acquired.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
