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Aspects of Suburban Life- Main Street, 1937, Paul Cadmus, Loan, G360 Dunlap, Sept
Aspects of Suburban Life: Main Street, 1937, Paul Cadmus, Curtis Galleries Loan, G360 Questions Questions 1. What’s going on in this painting? ! 2. What could be some reasons for titling this “Suburban Life”? ! 3. What could be a reason for the expression on the face of the woman dressed in black? ! 4. In 1936 Cadmus was commissioned by TRAP (later WPA) to design 4 murals for the post office (or library) in affluent Port Washington (some considered the model for Fitzgerald’s town in The Great Gatsby). His paintings, however, were rejected as inappropriate. Considering the hardships and sacrifices of the Depression, why might this have been objectionable? ! Main Points 1. The 2 girls, along with their friend, dominate the canvas and the street scene. Two carry tennis racquets. The girl closest to us resists the pull of her dachshund on a long red leash. They draw the leers or stares of disapproval from many on the street except, perhaps, the policeman who seems to halt traffic just for them to cross. 2. Small town buildings such as the Woolworth’s, the drugstore, the one with a false-front, the theater, the church spire, all proclaim Main Street, USA. Cars, not streetcars, are the preferred means of transportation as small towns become commuter communities. 3. The tennis trio seems careless and self-satisfied; their goal is to enjoy the country club life in the depths of the Depression. The commuter community is displacing/shoving aside the town’s longstanding residents. 4. The lounging “local yokels” watching the passing scene, the auto repair in progress, the contrast between the idle, complacent nouveau riche and the rest of the town, the chaotic scene -- all cast a less than ideal view of the town. -
Oral History Interview with Paul Cadmus, 1988 March 22-May 5
Oral history interview with Paul Cadmus, 1988 March 22-May 5 Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service. Contact Information Reference Department Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution Washington. D.C. 20560 www.aaa.si.edu/askus Transcript Preface The following oral history transcript is the result of a tape-recorded interview with Paul Cadmus on March 22, 1988. The interview took place in Weston, Connecticut, and was conducted by Judd Tully for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Interview JUDD TULLY: Tell me something about your childhood. You were born in Manhattan? PAUL CADMUS: I was born in Manhattan. I think born at home. I don't think I was born in a hospital. I think that the doctor who delivered me was my uncle by marriage. He was Dr. Brown Morgan. JUDD TULLY: Were you the youngest child? PAUL CADMUS: No. I'm the oldest. I's just myself and my sister. I was born on December 17, 1904. My sister was born two years later. We were the only ones. We were very, very poor. My father earned a living by being a commercial lithographer. He wanted to be an artist, a painter, but he was foiled. As I say, he had to make a living to support his family. We were so poor that I suffered from malnutrition. Maybe that was the diet, too. I don't know. I had rickets as a child, which is hardly ever heard of nowadays. -
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PAINTING and SCULPTURE 1969 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Js'i----».--:R'f--=
Arch, :'>f^- *."r7| M'i'^ •'^^ .'it'/^''^.:^*" ^' ;'.'>•'- c^. CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE 1969 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jS'i----».--:r'f--= 'ik':J^^^^ Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture 1969 Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture DAVID DODD5 HENRY President of the University JACK W. PELTASON Chancellor of the University of Illinois, Urbano-Champaign ALLEN S. WELLER Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts Director of Krannert Art Museum JURY OF SELECTION Allen S. Weller, Chairman Frank E. Gunter James R. Shipley MUSEUM STAFF Allen S. Weller, Director Muriel B. Christlson, Associate Director Lois S. Frazee, Registrar Marie M. Cenkner, Graduate Assistant Kenneth C. Garber, Graduate Assistant Deborah A. Jones, Graduate Assistant Suzanne S. Stromberg, Graduate Assistant James O. Sowers, Preparator James L. Ducey, Assistant Preparator Mary B. DeLong, Secretary Tamasine L. Wiley, Secretary Catalogue and cover design: Raymond Perlman © 1969 by tha Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Library of Congress Catalog Card No. A48-340 Cloth: 252 00000 5 Paper: 252 00001 3 Acknowledgments h.r\ ^. f -r^Xo The College of Fine and Applied Arts and Esther-Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, Royal Marks Gallery, New York, New York California the Krannert Art Museum are grateful to Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New those who have lent paintings and sculp- Fairweother Hardin Gallery, Chicago, York, New York ture to this exhibition and acknowledge Illinois Dr. Thomas A. Mathews, Washington, the of the artists, Richard Gallery, Illinois cooperation following Feigen Chicago, D.C. collectors, museums, and galleries: Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, Midtown Galleries, New York, New York New York ACA Golleries, New York, New York Mr. -
Margherita Sarfatti: Una Donna Nuova Celata Dalla Storia
MARGHERITA SARFATTI: UNA DONNA NUOVA CELATA DALLA STORIA MOSTRE AL MUSEO DEL NOVECENTO A MILANO E AL MART DI ROVERETO Margherita Sarfatti donna del suo tempo, un’icona sfaccettata come appare nell’immagine simbolo della mostra che ne riassume la vita e i meriti culturali, è stata una figura che ha disegnato come imprenditrice culturale e critica d’arte nuovi ruoli per il genere femminile, proprio quando si stava delineando un sistema dell’arte moderno. Margherita vive in un momento storico caratterizzato da grandi rivolgimenti sociali e da uno sviluppo economico straordinario. Un’epoca di cambiamenti potremmo dire epocali come puo ben essere evidenziato, nei quadri degli artisti di quegli anni, dove vediamo come le innovazioni tecnologiche, dai tram agli aeroplani, trasformino il paesaggio non solo terrestre, ma anche la vista del cielo ostacolata ora anche dalle superfici estese degli edifici industriali, sempre più numerosi. Cambiano le città e i loro colori: i grigi e i marroni contrastano con il verde degli alberi, soprattutto a Milano dove vive e opera la protagonista delle due nuove mostre che si sono aperte, in questi giorni, al Museo del Novecento, nel capoluogo lombardo e al Mart di Rovereto. Esse costituiscono un’occasione per comprendere l’importanza di questa intellettuale, poco nota in rapporto al ruolo potremmo definire caleidoscopico svolto come giornalista, critica, curatrice di mostre d’arte e divulgatrice dell’arte italiana nel mondo. La sua notorieta come “l’amante del duce” l’ha condannata alla damnatio memoriae. La mostra nel capoluogo lombardo: Segni, colori e luci a Milano, curata da Anna Maria Montaldo, Danka Giacon e con la collaborazione di Antonello Negri, ha il merito di mettere in evidenza attraverso il percorso biografico della Sarfatti l’ambiente culturale dell’epoca e soprattutto fa conoscere in modo più ampio, grazie ai novanta quadri esposti, gli artisti del gruppo Novecento di cui Margherita era l’anima critica. -
Jared French David Zwirner
David Zwirner New York London Hong Kong Jared French Artist Biography Jared French (1905–1988) is known for his psychologically charged compositions, painted in the time-intensive medium of egg tempera. Born in New Jersey, French graduated from Amherst College in 1925, where he studied with the poet Robert Frost. After his relocation to New York, he began working as a clerk at a Wall Street firm while taking classes at the Art Students League, where he met the young artist Paul Cadmus, who would become his lover. In 1931, French and Cadmus embarked on a two-year trip through Europe in search of artistic and sexual freedom, settling in Mallorca, where they began to develop their signature artistic styles. Returning from Europe, French and Cadmus shared an apartment and a studio in Greenwich Village. French found employment in the Mural and Easel Painting Section of the Public Works of Art Project creating works that demonstrated his interest in the idealized human form—a preoccupation he shared with Cadmus. In 1937, French married artist Margaret Hoening, fifteen years his senior, but maintained his relationship with Cadmus (unlike many of the artists in his circle, French identified as bisexual). That same year, the Frenches rented a summer cottage in Saltaire, Fire Island, where the three of them formed the photography collective PaJaMa (an mash-up of their first names). Using Hoening’s Leica, they captured themselves, their friends, and members of the gay community artfully posing in the landscape on the beaches of Fire Island, Nantucket, and Provincetown. These images capture their expanding social circle, which included the British author E.M. -
Mexican Murals and Fascist Frescoes
Mexican Murals and Fascist Frescoes: Cultural Reinvention in 20th-Century Mexico and Italy An honors thesis for the Department of International Literary and Visual Studies Maya Sussman Tufts University, 2013 Acknowledgments I would like to thank Professor Adriana Zavala for her encouragement, guidance, and patience throughout each step of this research project. I am grateful to Professor Laura Baffoni-Licata and Professor Silvia Bottinelli for both supporting me and challenging me with their insightful feedback. I also wish to acknowledge Kaeli Deane at Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art for inviting me to view Rivera’s Italian sketchbook, and Dean Carmen Lowe for her assistance in funding my trip to New York through the Undergraduate Research Fund. Additionally, I am grateful to the Academic Resource Center for providing supportive and informative workshops for thesis writers. Finally, I want to thank my friends and family for supporting me throughout this project and the rest of my time at Tufts. Contents Introduction................................................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 1: Diego Rivera’s Sketches from Italy: The Influence of Italian Renaissance Art on the Murals at the Ministry of Public Education and Chapingo Chapel ................................................ 7 Chapter 2: Historical Revival in Fascist Italy: Achille Funi’s Mito di Ferrara Frescoes........... 46 Chapter 3: Muralists’ Manifestos and the Writing of Diego Rivera and Achille Funi .............. -
Paul Cadmus David Zwirner
David Zwirner New York London Hong Kong Paul Cadmus Artist Biography Singularly influential to subsequent generations of artists, Paul Cadmus (1904–1999) is best known for his lively satirical compositions of American life and social mores, and for his finely rendered drawings of muscular male nudes. Born to artist parents in New York City, Cadmus began his artistic training at the age of fifteen, enrolling in the National Academy of Design. The school’s traditional approach of students’ first mastering plaster casts before working from live models provided Cadmus with a solid understanding of the human form. Completing his studies in 1926, he supported himself by working for an advertising agency as he continued to develop his artistic skills at the Art Students League. There, he met fellow aspiring artist Jared French and the two soon became lovers. Leaving their day jobs in pursuit of artistic and sexual freedom, Cadmus and French embarked on a two-year trip to Europe in 1931, where they saw works by Italian masters such as Luca Signorelli and Andrea Mantegna and by French academic painters such as Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Eugène Delacroix. This exposure informed the development of Cadmus’s signature style of bulging musculature and torqued bodies evident in his major early works produced in Mallorca, Spain. Returning to New York and settling into a Greenwich Village apartment with French, Cadmus found work as an artist with the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP). When the Navy removed his boisterous painting The Fleet’s In! (1934) from a PWAP exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, for its purported portrayal of “a disgraceful, drunken, sordid, disreputable brawl,” the controversy thrust Cadmus into the national spotlight. -
Architecture and Materials in the First Half of the 20Th Century in Italy
G. Bernardo & L. Palmero Iglesias, Int. J. of Herit. Archit., Vol. 1, No. 4 (2017) 593–607 ARCHITECTURE AND MatERIALS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY IN ItaLY G. BERNARDO1 & L. PALMERO IGLESIAS2 1Department of European and Mediterranean Cultures, University of Basilicata, Italy. 2Department of Architectural Constructions, Technical University of Valencia, Spain. ABSTRACT The architecture and the materials used in the constructions have always been the symbol of the culture and progress of a people. Each historical period can be described in its complexity through the architectural heritage. The built environment is really an extraordinary testimony of the creativity and intelligence of humankind, of its enormous possibilities but also of its limitations as well as of a certain sensitivity and world view. This paper illustrates a multidisciplinary and historical-critical study of the main architectural trends in Italy in the first half of the 20th century: from the Futurism of the early 20th century to the rationalism of the fascist period. The work is focused on the role of the architecture in the socio-economic development of a country and on the complex relation- ship between materials innovation and architecture, which originates even today the debate between modernity and tradition. The results highlight the outstanding importance in the evolution of the different ways of conceiving architecture. It can be just a Utopia as in the Futuristic architecture, a drive towards a better world which will be able to meet the growing needs of an ever-changing world, or rise to fulfil the function of science and art through the innovative use of new materials and manufacturing technologies. -
Vermont Waterfall No.1 Coloured Chalks on Blue-Green Paper
Paul CADMUS (New York 1904 - Weston 1999) Vermont Waterfall No.1 Coloured chalks on blue-green paper. Signed Cadmus in white chalk at the lower right. Inscribed VERMONT WATERFALL / ♯ 1 / CADMUS / 12 1/2 x 8 3/4 on the old backing board. 328 x 234 mm. (12 7/8 x 8 3/4 in.) When his friend and sometime lover Jared French and his wife Margaret bought a summer house in the town of Hartland in Vermont, Paul Cadmus was given his own house on the property, and the present sheet may have been drawn at around that time. In later years, after the Frenches had settled to Rome, the Vermont house was taken back from Cadmus and given to Jared’s Italian lover. Provenance: Palm Beach Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida Private collection, Los Angeles. Artist description: Paul Cadmus was, from early in his career, recognized as a gifted draughtsman. At the age fifteen, he enrolled at the National Academy of Design in New York, where he remained for six years before entering the Art Students League of New York. He began his career working as a commercial illustrator for an advertising agency in New York, and it was while at the Art Students League that he met his longtime lover, the painter Jared French. The two men travelled together in Europe in the early 1930s, settling for some time in Majorca, before returning to America in 1933. Cadmus soon began working for the New Deal agency known as the Works Progress Administration, painting murals for public buildings; works in which he was much influenced by the social realist painters Reginald Marsh and Kenneth Hayes Miller. -
American Realists and Magic Realists Edited by Dorothy C
American realists and magic realists Edited by Dorothy C. Miller and Alfred H. Barr, jr., with statements by the artists and an introduction by Lincoln Kirstein Author Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Date 1943 Publisher The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition URL www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2854 The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition history— from our founding in 1929 to the present—is available online. It includes exhibition catalogues, primary documents, installation views, and an index of participating artists. MoMA © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art THE MUSEUM OF MODERN LIBRARY Museumof ModernArt ARCHIVE PLO.SEBETURH TOO FFICEOF lONROfc Retrospective Alexander, p. 19 Audubon, p. 11 Bingham, p. 14 Cole, p. 12 Eakins, p. 17 Field, p. 18 Goodwin, p. 62 AMERICAN Harnett, p. 20 Hicks, p. 13 Homer, p. 16 Kensett, p. 16 Mount, p. 15 Peale, p. 9 Real ists Watrous, p. 21 C ontemporary HOPPER, p. 22 and SHEELER, p. 23 ALBRIGHT, p. 24 Magic Real ists ATHERTON, p. 26 BLUME, p. 28 BULLER, p. 34 CADMUS, p. 30 CARTER, p. 32 CARTIER, p. 35 FRENCH, p. 36 GUGLIELMI, p. 38 HARARI, p. 40 Edited by Dorothy C. Miller and Alfred H. HELDER, p. 42 Barr Jr., with statements by the artists HURD, p. 41 and an introduction by Lincoln Kirstein KUPFERMAN, p. 43 LEWANDOWSKI, p. 44 LOZOWICK, p. 47 LUX, p. 46 PAPSDORF, p. 48 RAIN, p. 49 ROTHSCHILD, p. 50 SANTO, p. 51 SHAHN, p. 52 SUBA, p. 56 SULLIVAN, p. 54 WENGENROTH, p. 57 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART WYETH, p. -
The Legacy of Antonio Sant'elia: an Analysis of Sant'elia's Posthumous Role in the Development of Italian Futurism During the Fascist Era
San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Master's Theses Master's Theses and Graduate Research Spring 2014 The Legacy of Antonio Sant'Elia: An Analysis of Sant'Elia's Posthumous Role in the Development of Italian Futurism during the Fascist Era Ashley Gardini San Jose State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_theses Recommended Citation Gardini, Ashley, "The Legacy of Antonio Sant'Elia: An Analysis of Sant'Elia's Posthumous Role in the Development of Italian Futurism during the Fascist Era" (2014). Master's Theses. 4414. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31979/etd.vezv-6nq2 https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_theses/4414 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Master's Theses and Graduate Research at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE LEGACY OF ANTONIO SANT’ELIA: AN ANALYSIS OF SANT’ELIA’S POSTHUMOUS ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ITALIAN FUTURISM DURING THE FASCIST ERA A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Department of Art and Art History San José State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts by Ashley Gardini May 2014 © 2014 Ashley Gardini ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Designated Thesis Committee Approves the Thesis Titled THE LEGACY OF ANTONIO SANT’ELIA: AN ANALYSIS OF SANT’ELIA’S POSTHUMOUS ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ITALIAN FUTURISM DURING THE FASCIST ERA by Ashley Gardini APPROVED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY May 2014 Dr. -
Beauty ITALIAN MASTERPIECES from the INTERWAR PERIOD
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