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...About 500 Marin pictures are in museums or private collections. Another 150 are tied up in the estate of famed Photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who discovered Marin. Marin himself has between 500 and 1,000. His good oils bring $4,000 or more; the best water colors, from...
Died. Alfred Stieglitz, 82, world-famed photographer, founder of the "photo-secession" movement that emphasized realism and sought to make photography an art, husband of Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, the obscure Southern art teacher whom he sponsored; in Manhattan. Stieglitz introduced to the U.S. the works of Rodin, Cezanne, Matisse, Rousseau, jolted the orthodox art world by hanging paintings and photographs side by side in his Manhattan gallery...
...friend showed O'Keeffe's drawings (without her permission) to Alfred Stieglitz, pioneer photographer and missionary of modern art. Said he: "Finally-a woman on paper." When he put her work on exhibition, O'Keeffe stormed into Stieglitz' gallery to protest, afraid that gallerygoers would find the drawings incomprehensible. Stieglitz asked gently whether she herself knew what her drawings meant. Huffed O'Keeffe: "Do you think I'm an idiot?" Eight years later they were married...
...Another Stieglitz protégé was Max Weber, whose first, fine-chopped abstractions, like Chinese Restaurant, were harder to take than the India-rubber rabbis he paints now. The New York Times art critics are more sympathetic to him today than was the Timesman who sputtered in 1911: "It is difficult to write of these atrocities with moderation...
Nude in Manhattan. Stieglitz played host to a reckless, determined band. In 1913, the modernists captured Manhattan's huge 69th Regiment Armory, stocked it with some 1,600 examples of French and U.S. modern art. They adopted a motto, "The New Spirit," and distributed thousands of buttons bearing the pine-tree flag of the American Revolution. Probably 250,000 people saw the "Armory Show," and for a good many the experience was horrifying. For a glimpse of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (see cut], they had to stand in line...