Klee and AmericaMenil Collection, 2006 - 315 pages Paul Klee was a leading figure in European Modernism, and his acclaim at home was quickly matched in the United States, where both private collectors and major museums sought out his work. Klee and America explores the reasons for that enthusiastic reception, especially during the 1930s and 1940s, while the artist was being targeted in Hitler's campaign against Entartete Kunst (degenerate art). Just as the European market for Klee's work was collapsing, American patrons and curators were gobbling it up. And after he had been removed from his teaching post in Dsseldorf and had returned to his childhood home in Switzerland, Klee continued to be represented by a number of German-Jewish art dealers who had emigrated to the U.S. Eventually his work landed in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim, among others. Foremost among Klee's earliest American collectors was Katherine Dreier, whose Societe Anonyme, founded with artists Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, sponsored the exhibitions of pioneering abstract art in which his paintings were first shown in America. In Los Angeles, Walter and Louise Arensberg assembled a vast collection of Klee's paintings. In 1939, Alfred Barr Jr. bought a first canvas for MoMA. Klee and America examines this history and offers an impressive selection of Klee's finest "American" works, both paintings and drawings. |
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... drawing for the work has as yet been dis- covered , one sees an almost identical perspective and interior in the original composition ( see below ) of the two , now separated , watercolors Zimmerperspective rot / grün [ Room Perspective ...
... drawing for the work has as yet been dis- covered , one sees an almost identical perspective and interior in the original composition ( see below ) of the two , now separated , watercolors Zimmerperspective rot / grün [ Room Perspective ...
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... drawing . Inasmuch as Klee's " decorative " style of painting and drawing was often criticized as mere " tapestry design , " it is interesting that here Klee was presumably attempting to develop a commonality between drawing and textile ...
... drawing . Inasmuch as Klee's " decorative " style of painting and drawing was often criticized as mere " tapestry design , " it is interesting that here Klee was presumably attempting to develop a commonality between drawing and textile ...
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... Drawings , " Curt Valentin Gallery , New York , April 11-23 ( sixty - six works ) . " Works by Paul Klee from the ... Drawing and Sculpture : Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer , Jr. , " Knoedler and Company , New York , April 9 ...
... Drawings , " Curt Valentin Gallery , New York , April 11-23 ( sixty - six works ) . " Works by Paul Klee from the ... Drawing and Sculpture : Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer , Jr. , " Knoedler and Company , New York , April 9 ...
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