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AND THE CULTURE OF DRAWING AND WATERCOLOR IN THE STIEGLITZ CIRCLE (2005)
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| Abstract | Drawing and watercolor were important in shaping the modernism of artist Georgia O’Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz. In his gallery 291 and journal Camera Work, Stieglitz introduced European avant-garde art to early twentieth-century America and promoted American modernists including O’Keeffe. Stieglitz as a child collected drawings and watercolors and learned traditional drawing connoisseurship that valued revelation of the artist’s character through the marks he made on paper. Stieglitz’s journals Camera Notes and Camera Work asserted connections between photography and other graphic media. Stieglitz and Edward Steichen founded 291 as a pictorial photography gallery but later exhibited modern paintings and many drawings and watercolors. O’Keeffe studied academic art at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, but she wanted more creative freedom. Art educator Arthur Wesley Dow introduced O’Keeffe to abstract design principles and prepared her to appreciate modern art. While O’Keeffe was training as an art teacher at Columbia University Teachers College in New York in 1914 and 1915, she visited |
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| Publisher Date | 2005-01-01 |
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| Subject Keyword | Academic Art Journal Camera Work European Avant-garde Art Modern Painting Art Institute Alfred Stieglitz Creative Freedom American Modernist Graphic Medium Camera Work Columbia University Teacher College Edward Steichen Art Student League Culture Drawing Watercolor Stieglitz Circle Stieglitz Journal Camera Note Artist Character Early Twentieth-century America Modern Art Pictorial Photography Gallery Art Educator Arthur Wesley Dow Many Drawing Art Teacher Artist Georgia Keeffe |
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