Word: stallknecht
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countries can boast even that much female talent. Nevertheless, with the increasing leisure of American womanhood and the enticement of painting as a hobby, women have an invitation to become popular artists. Grandma Moses has proved it possible, on a grand scale. And now Cape Cod's Alice Stallknecht, a spry, sturdy widow of 77, is seconding the nomination...
Easterner Stallknecht has had her greatest success in the West, with a traveling show this summer that went to Colorado Springs, Pasadena, San Diego and San Francisco. In the exhibition catalogue, Art Historian Lloyd Goodrich of Manhattan's Whitney Museum went full out for Stallknecht's work, describing her as "a 'natural'; she puts things down on canvas with unhesitating directness, as if reality guided her brush. But her realism is never merely photographic. Sometimes her patterns take on an expressionistic freedom, with pronounced rhythms, suggesting Van Gogh-or, nearer home, Marsden Hartley. But such parallels...