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...STIEGLITZ: A MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY by Sue Davidson Lowe; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 456 pages; $25.50 ALFRED STIEGLITZ: PHOTOGRAPHS & WRITINGS; Callaway; 247 pages...
...Fair never reached more than 99,000 buyers, and it reportedly lost money for Publisher Condé Nast (1873-1942) in all save one of its 22 years. But it featured writing by Thomas Wolfe, T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Parker and P.G. Wodehouse and photographs by Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz. In an indulgent appraisal in 1960, Cleveland Amory contended that Vanity Fair had been "America's most memorable magazine...
...FOGG'S exhibition of Master Drawings by Picasso is the first show in this country devoted solely to his works on paper since Alfred Stieglitz displayed the young Spaniard's drawings and etchings at the avant-garde 291 Gallery in New York. That was in 1911. Now, 70 years later on the centennial of Picasso's birth, the Fogg's Gary Tinterow has assembled more than 100 drawing watercolors, and guaches from 50 collections and museums around the world. Because of the recent settling of Picasso's estate, it is now possible to exhibit works that were previously unknown...
...Stieglitz arranged to send Hartley abroad in 1912. With such sponsorship, Hartley found himself welcomed into the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein and its animated talk of abstraction, of analytical cubism, of form vs, content. Soon Hartley was painting variants of Picasso, Braque, Delaunay, Cezanne and most of all of Kandinsky. He called his new style "subliminal or cosmic cubism...
...Finally Stieglitz, who felt Hartley's pictures had become unsuccessful derivatives of European models, brusquely advised him to return to the U.S. In 1930 Hartley gave in and sailed home again...