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John B. Flannagan : A Salvation in Stone.

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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:
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Other Format:
Print version: Rangoon Doyle, Katherine John B. Flannagan
ISBN:
9798855807950
OCLC:
1597391804

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