Marion Greenwood : Portrait and Self-Portrait--A Biography / Joanne B. Mulcahy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mulcahy, Joanne B., 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painters--United States--Biography.

Painters.

Greenwood, Marion, 1909-1970.

Greenwood, Marion.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2025]

Summary:

"This book is the first biography of a woman whose star blazed through the twentieth-century art world. Born in Brooklyn in 1909, artist Marion Greenwood attended and thrived at now-storied institutions and arts centers: The Art Students League, the studio of German modernist Winold Reiss, the Woodstock Colony, and Yaddo. In 1933, she catapulted to international fame as the first woman to paint a public mural in Mexico and was celebrated by Diego Rivera as one of "the world's greatest living women mural painters." Greenwood traveled the globe to create award-winning portraits of people from diverse backgrounds, crossing racial, cultural, and class lines to reflect her vision for a more just world. Based on a decade of research and interviews, biographer Joanne B. Mulcahy integrates Greenwood's adventuresome personal life with her journey to artistic glory. Mulcahy deftly contextualizes Greenwood's participation in the heady art scenes of 1920s and 1930s Mexico, New York City, and Paris, and her role as one of two women artist-correspondents during World War II. After social realism and portraiture fell from favor, Greenwood doggedly stuck with "the human thing" in art. Her freewheeling romantic life defied expectations for women, and she fought sexist critics who mixed acclaim for her work with commentary on her stunning beauty. A feminist pioneer, she made a living as an artist in a time when few women did. In following Greenwood's maverick path and artistic achievements, this book carves out a central place for her in the pantheon of history's remarkable women artists"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Prologue: "A Realist Woman Should Jump"

Part I. Foundations (1909-1936)

Chapter 1. "The Greatest Living Women Mural Painters"

Chapter 2. The Real Bohemians

Chapter 3. The Art Students League and the Woodstock Colony

Chapter 4. "My University": Yaddo and the Gateway to Europe

Chapter 5. Representing "Others": Winold Reiss, "Ethnic Types," and the American Southwest

Chapter 6. Uptown and Downtown

Chapter 7. "A Large Dose of 'Painful Brooding'"

Part II. Mexican Awakening (1932-1936)

Chapter 8. "The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican"

Chapter 9. "A Perfect Romantic Setting": Taxco and the Market Mural

Chapter 10. Pátzcuaro and the Music in the Square

Chapter 11. "A Girl Alone" in Morelia

Chapter 12. "Life Will Become One Big Wall"

Chapter 13. Comrades in Mexico City

Chapter 14. "The Struggle Is Greater and Nearer to Me in the States"

Part III. Love and War (1937-1947)

Chapter 15. Partnerships with Men and Nature

Chapter 16. Art for Every Home

Chapter 17. War, Departures, and Returns

Chapter 18. Lost Time and Jealousy's "Revolving Fire"

Chapter 19. The War Art Program

Chapter 20. Hsu Lost and Found

Chapter 21. The "China" Experience

Part IV. Rupture and Renaissance (1948-1970)

Chapter 22. "I Treasure What You Gave"

Chapter 23. The Caribbean and "That Nice Young Man"

Chapter 24. The Singing Mural

Chapter 25. In and Out of Tune

Chapter 26. Tributes to Women

Chapter 27. "The Most Alive Person I've Ever Known"

Chapter 28. Marion Greenwood's Legacy

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780817395483

0817395482