![]() In the American Grain gathers the Stieglitz circle as acquired by Phillips: paintings by all four artists, watercolors by Dove and Marin, assemblages by Dove, and Stieglitz's "Equivalents," his acclaimed photographs of clouds and sky. Alfred Stieglitz HonFRPS (Janu July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. The uniquely American style of the artists in the Stieglitz circle - Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Georgia O'Keeffe - defied European tradition and opened the door for artistic experimentation. Their combined vision and resources invigorated a movement and prepared the way for public acceptance of American modernism. Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Alfred Maurer, among many others and the hub of a unique circle of painters, photographers, writers, educators, architects, musicians, and critics responsible for much of Americas contemporary culture. Their long friendship, sometimes an uneasy alliance, brought forth a reevaluation of art in American culture. A trailblazing photographer, Alfred Stieglitz vigorously championed photography as a fine art and established its value as modern art in America through his own work, the journals he. Gift of Daniel, Richard, and Jonathan Logan. That Stieglitz and Phillips would meet was destiny. Portrait of Alfred Stieglitz, about 1899. Although he collected some of the world's masterpieces, especially French Impressionism, he kept a diligent eye on the work being done in his own country. Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. Alfred Stieglitz Collection, New York bequeathed through Georgia O’Keeffe to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949. At the same time Duncan Phillips, a determined art collector and heir to a steel fortune, opened two rooms of his Washington, D.C., home to begin a museum of modern art. Arthur Dove used abstraction to interpret musical subjects in works such as Swing Music. "In association with the Phillips Collection."ĭuring the 1920s and 1930s, Alfred Stieglitz's stylish New York galleries were a mecca to artistic innovators and avant garde thinkers, those struggling to cast off the burden of American puritanical thought and the fixed idea among the intellectual elite that important art, art that was real and would last, was being made only in Europe.
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