Jack and Rhea Case papers

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968

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Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (French:28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art, and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of...

Arensberg, Louise, 1879-1953

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Louise Arensberg (1879-1953) was born Mary Louise Stevens in Dresden, Germany, to John Edward Stevens and his wife, Harriet Louisa. In 1882, the family relocated to Ludlow, Massachusetts, where Louise's father worked in his in-law's textile manufacturing business, eventually amassing the fortune Louise would use to finance the Arensbergs' art collection. Louise studied music and attended finishing school in Dresden. On June 26, 1907, she married Walter, a Harvard classmate of her brother Sidney....

Arensberg, Walter, 1878-1954

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Walter Conrad Arensberg (1878-1954) was an American author and Francis Bacon scholar. Walter and his wife Louise (1879–1953) were among the most notable U.S.-based art collectors of the first half of the 20th century. While Walter was born into Pittsburgh steel wealth, it was the family fortune of his wife Louise, made in Massachusetts textile manufacturing, that would allow the couple to rise to prominence in the world of avant-garde art collecting, and place their homes, first in New York C...

Case, Rhea

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Brâncuşi, Constantin, 1876-1957

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Siqueiros, David Alfaro

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David Alfaro Siqueiros was a leading member of the Mexican muralist movement and a technical innovator of fresco and wall painting. His ideological differences with Diego Rivera attracted much attention in the 1930s. From the description of David Alfaro Siqueiros papers, 1920-1991, bulk 1930-1936. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80149112 ...

Scheyer, Galka E.

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Art collector, dealer; b. 1889; d. 1945; Los Angeles, Calif. Scheyer worked to introduce the art of the Blue Four (Blaue Vier), Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, and Alexei Jawlensky, to American collectors. From the description of Galka Scheyer papers, 1917-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86118568 ...

Wood, Beatrice D.

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Ceramist, educator, artist, and writer; b. 1893; d. 1998. From the description of Beatrice Wood papers, 1852-1998. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81603855 Beatrice Wood (1893-1998) was an American artist and ceramist. From the description of Beatrice Wood papers, 1954-1997 (bulk 1960-1987). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702182309 From the description of "A Nickellette, or Unsophisticated Mary" manuscript and painting. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 7021...

Case, Jack

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Friends of artist Beatrice Wood. Wood is a ceramist; Ojai, California. From the description of Jack and Rhea Case papers, 1917-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122599501 ...