Matisse and *America, 1905--1933.
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Title
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Matisse and *America, 1905--1933.
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Identifier
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AAI9969682
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identifier
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9969682
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Creator
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Cauman, John H.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Jack Flam
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Date
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2000
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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
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Abstract
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Matisse had a reciprocal relationship with America: not only did he influence American modernism in its formative stages, but Americans played a decisive part in his career. This relationship can be charted according to three (overlapping) factors: collectors, critics, and other artists.;This study is in the form of a narrative, in which events are reconstructed with the aid of correspondence, reminiscences, newspaper accounts, and exhibition catalogues. The circumscribed dates constitute the time span from Leo Stein's purchase of The Woman with the Hat in 1905 to Matisse's installation of the Barnes mural in 1933. These years coincided with a shift in Matisse's reputation from rebel to upholder of the grand tradition in French painting. The chronology divides itself naturally into four chapters: 1905--1912, 1913--1919, the 1920s, and the early 1930s.;Before 1913, the Stein family, the Cone family, Albert Barnes, and John Quinn began to collect Matisse; Matisse and his American followers exhibited at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 Gallery; and Matisse ran an art academy that included American students.;In 1913 Matisse reached a broader public at the Armory Show; Walter Pach, Matisse's de facto representative in America, organized a Matisse exhibition at the Montross Gallery; and Arthur Jerome Eddy and Willard Huntington Wright wrote about Matisse in their pioneering books on modern art.;The 1920s saw the growth of three great Matisse collections---those of John Quinn, Claribel and Etta Cone, and Albert Barnes---and the arrival of the artist's son Pierre, who inherited Pach's role of Matisse's stateside representative.;In the early thirties Matisse made four visits to America; Albert Barnes wrote a book on Matisse and commissioned him to paint a mural; and Alfred Barr organized a Matisse retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.;The first two chapters focus on artists and collectors and on Matisse as teacher. The final two chapters, chronicling a period when Matisse's influence on American artists was more diffuse, focus on collectors, the early years of the Modern Museum, and Matisse's American visits. It is the author's intention that this method will yield new insights into both Matisse and American modernism.
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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.
