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Edith Halpert : the Downtown Gallery and the rise of American art / Rebecca Shaykin.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection N6512 .S33 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaykin, Rebecca, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Halpert, Edith Gregor, 1900-1970.
- Halpert, Edith Gregor.
- Downtown Gallery (New York, N.Y.).
- Art patrons--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Art patrons.
- Art dealers--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions.
- Art dealers.
- Art, American--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Art, American.
- Folk art--United States--Exhibitions.
- Folk art.
- United States.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 232 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Jewish Museum ; New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- The question "What is American art?" might conjure the hyperrealism of Raphaelle Peale and William Harnett, the bold graphic style of Stuart Davis and Jacob Lawrence, or the Precisionist forms of Charles Sheeler. Little known, however, is that such notions of American art are significantly owed to a Russian Jewish immigrant named Edith Halpert. The founder of the Downtown Gallery in New York, Halpert shaped an identity for American art, declaring that its thrilling heterogeneity and democratic values were what most distinguished it from the European avant-garde. For forty-plus years, Halpert's gallery brought recognition and market success to now-legendary American artists-among them Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe, in addition to the artists mentioned above. She relentlessly championed nonwhite, female, and unknown artists and was a formative advisor in the shaping of many of the nation's most celebrated art museums and collections, from San Francisco to Boston. Not content with those achievements, she also pioneered the appreciation and collecting of American folk art. Richly illustrated with works that passed through her groundbreaking gallery, this book tells the extraordinary and largely overlooked story of her career and legacy. The artists Halpert launched into the American canon are household names-and this book compellingly argues that hers should be, as well.
- Contents:
- Married to American art
- Our gallery
- American ancestors
- The picture boom
- The Halpert influence
- Selections from the collection of Edith Halpert.
- Notes:
- Published in conjunction with the exhibition Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art, organized by the Jewish Museum, New York, October 18, 2019-February 9, 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-209) and index.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Visual Arts, Winner, 2019
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Altemus Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0300231008
- 9780300231007
- OCLC:
- 1089969095
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