Stieglitz and his artists : Matisse to O'Keeffe : the Alfred Stieglitz collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / edited by Lisa Mintz Messinger ; essays and entries by Magdalena Dabrowski [and others].
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Messinger, Lisa Mintz.; Dabrowski, Magdalena.
2011
N6512 .M477 2011 (Mapit)
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Title Stieglitz and his artists : Matisse to O'Keeffe : the Alfred Stieglitz collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / edited by Lisa Mintz Messinger ; essays and entries by Magdalena Dabrowski [and others].
Corporate Author Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN 9781588394330 (hc ; Metropolitan Museum of Art)
1588394336 (hc ; Metropolitan Museum of Art)
9780300175882 (hc ; Yale University Press)
0300175884 (hc ; Yale University Press)
Imprint New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011.
Language English
Description ix, 350 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Call Number N6512 .M477 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 709.2
Summary "A master photographer, Alfred Stieglitz was also a visionary promoter and an avid collector of modern American and European art from the first half of the twentieth century. Operating a succession of influential Manhattan galleries from 1905 to 1946, he exhibited many of the most important artists of the era, including Constantin Brancusi, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Vasily Kandinsky, John Marin, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Francis Picabia, and Pablo Picasso. The collection he assembled of their works -- by purchase, gift, and happy accident -- was of exceptional breadth and depth and has since become the cornerstone of the Metropolitan Museum's holdings of modern art since 1949. This volume is the first catalogue of the Metropolitan's unparalleled Alfred Stieglitz Collection: more than four hundred paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints made between the 1880s and the 1940s. After an illuminating introduction that traces the collection's formation and surprising dénouement, thirty-one short essays serve as focused biographies of the dealer and each of the artists he cultivated and collected, demonstrating the intense and often intimate relationships that affected artistic direction, financial well-being (or its opposite), and social and professional prestige. These discussions are enriched by new scholarship, technical analysis, and archival research, and many works in the collection are published here for the first time. Seen together in splendid color reproductions, they present a portrait of a supreme connoisseur -- a man who acted as 'midwife' in the creation of twentieth-century art."--Publisher's description.
Note Issued in connection with an exhibition held Oct. 13, 2011-Jan. 2, 2012, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Messinger, Lisa Mintz.
Dabrowski, Magdalena.
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The pictures collected him : the Alfred Stieglitz Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Lisa Mintz Messinger
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Catalogue of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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