Word: stieglitz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the bleak, hospital-white walls of his gallery splattered with Marin water colors, Dealer Stieglitz stood belligerently trying to explain to reporters what there is about these pictures, formless daubs to many an initiate, that causes such enthusiasm. Said...
...Alfred Stieglitz, who has the hairiest ears and the most positive opinions of any dealer in New York, opened his autumn season fortnight ago with an exhibition by that darling of the cognoscenti, John Marin, No. i man in that collection of artists which Alfred Stieglitz has so successfully cherished and promoted that they are known as the "Stieglitz Group...
John Marin was born in Rutherford, N. J. 60 years ago. His. long lank hair is still brown, makes him look like a smaller, sallower edition of the late Sir Henry Irving. He habitually wears high stiff collars, enjoys fishing. It is 22 years since Alfred Stieglitz, a distinguished photographer in his own right, first found John Marin in Paris making a precarious living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. In reaction to this intricate scratchwork he would go to the country, paint rapidly with loose splashes of color. Alfred Stieglitz had little sympathy with the Whistlerian...
John Marin returned to the U. S., realized that there he could do his best work. Stieglitz gave him his first exhibition in 1910, has stood sponsor for his artistic career, guardian of his finances ever since. About five years ago the chorus of critical praise began humming. It became smart to own a Marin, expensive to buy one. Pictures that were little more than large sheets of rough paper with a few expertly placed blobs of color, brought $1,000, $2,000 and eventually...
Famous photographers whose works are on view include Eugene Atget, Anton Bruehl, Tina Modotti, Charles Sheeler, Edward Steichen, Ralph Steiner, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston...