Stieglitz and his artists : Matisse to O'Keeffe : the Alfred Stieglitz collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art /
edited by Lisa Mintz Messinger ; essays and entries by Magdalena Dabrowski ... [et al.].
- New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011.
- ix, 350 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Oct. 13, 2011-Jan. 2, 2012, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A master photographer, Alfred Stieglitz was also a visionary promoter and an avid collector of American and European art from the first half of the twentieth century. Operating a succession of influential Manhattan galleries for 1905 to 1946, he exhibited many of the most important artists of the era, including Constantin Brancusi, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Francis Picabia, and Pablo Picasso. The collection he assembled of their works?by purchase, gift, and happy accident?was of exceptional breadth and depth and has been the cornerstone of the Metropolitan Museum's holdings of modern art since 1949. Thirty-one short essays serve as focused biographies of the dealer and each of the artists he cultivated and collected, demonstrating the intense and often intimate relationships that affected artistic direction, financial well-being (or its opposite), and social and professional prestige. -- (from publisher)
9781588394330 ((hc: the metropolitan museum of art)) 9780300175882 ((hc: yale university press))