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John B. Flannagan : A Salvation in Stone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rangoon Doyle, Katherine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Flannagan, John Bernard, 1895-1942.
- Sculptors--United States.
- Sculptors.
- Sculpture, American--20th century.
- Sculpture, American.
- Local Subjects:
- Flannagan, John Bernard, 1895-1942.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- The first book on American artist John B.Flannagan, a pioneering sculptor during the 1920s and 1930s who found the meaning of life in stone.Although seen as a progenitor of modern American sculpture, John B.Flannagan (1895-1942) has never been the subject of a book.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Early Years
- The Flannagan Family
- Early Religious Education in Fargo
- The Move to Minnesota
- St. Francis School of Nursing
- St. Otto's Orphan Asylum
- St. John's University
- 2 Art School in Minneapolis
- Robert Koehler
- Classmates and Instructors
- The Sculpture Training that Wasn't
- 3 Stoke-Hole Days and Beginning Career in New York City
- The US Shipping Board
- New York City
- Flannagan, Cummings, Seabrook, and "Seeing Music"
- 4 Flannagan and Direct Carving
- The Spiritual Essential
- Direct Carving's Other Precepts and Practitioners
- Modernist Abstraction and Brancusi
- Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
- The Sculptors Gallery
- 5 Investigating the Flannagan-Davies Connection
- Disentangling the Discovery Myth
- Wax Paintings and Early Carving
- Arthur B. Davies
- Questioning the Dates
- A Corrective to the Narrative
- The Montross Gallery's Special Exhibition: Contemporary Art
- 6 Greenwich Village and Patchin Place
- The Bookshops and Little Magazines
- The Dial
- First Patrons for Sculpture
- Carved Furniture
- Other Early Carvings and the New Gallery
- 7 The Whitney and the Art Colonies
- The Influence of African Art
- The Influence of Folk and Craft
- The Maverick Colony
- South Mountain Road
- Flannagan Comes into His Own as Sculptor
- 8 The Weyhe Gallery and Zigrosser
- "Art Books in All Languages"
- Erhard Weyhe
- Zigrosser
- Flannagan's First Show at the Weyhe Gallery
- Alexander Calder
- Flannagan's Second Show at the Weyhe Gallery
- Final Thoughts
- 9 The Late Twenties
- Sculpture by J. B. Flannagan at the Whitney Studio Galleries
- The Opposite End of South Mountain Road: Hugo Robus
- Flannagan's First Marriage
- Henry Morton Robinson
- Flannagan's Third Show at the Weyhe Gallery.
- 10 Ireland and the Great Depression
- Clifden, Ireland
- Ongoing Opportunities and Challenges
- Flannagan's Fourth Show at the Weyhe Gallery
- Dublin, Ireland
- Diego Rivera and Depression-era New York City
- Recognition and First Students
- 11 Bloomingdale Hospital for Mental Diseases
- Flannagan's Fifth Show at the Weyhe Gallery
- The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) Debacle
- Ongoing Troubles
- Life at Bloomingdale
- Correspondence
- Artistic Experiments Away from Home
- 12 The Mid-Thirties and Margherita
- The Works Progress Administration (WPA), Rockefeller Center, and Design for a Skyscraper Court
- Margherita
- Woodstock
- Beachmont, Massachusetts
- 1936
- Flannagan's Sixth Show at the Weyhe Gallery
- Fairmount Park and a House Near Woodstock
- 13 The Late Thirties
- Ridgefield, Connecticut
- Jonah and the Whale, Triumph of the Egg, and St. Teresa Not Interested
- The Gold Miner
- Flannagan's Last Show at the Weyhe Gallery
- 14 A Careful Closing of Doors
- The Second Accident
- Boston
- 1940: Flannagan's Year
- Religious Conversion
- Figure of Dignity
- Valentin and the Buchholz Gallery
- The Valentin Agreement
- 15 A Salvation in Stone
- Flannagan's Memorial Shows
- The Credo
- The Artist and the Person
- Complications and Contradictions
- Direct Carving Redux
- Appendix: "The Image in the Rock"
- "The Image in the Rock"
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Rangoon Doyle, Katherine John B. Flannagan
- ISBN:
- 9798855807950
- OCLC:
- 1597391804
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