Letter from Erle Loran to Richard J. Wattenmaker, 1976 May 25.

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Letter from Erle Loran to Richard J. Wattenmaker, 1976 May 25.

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Letter from Erle Loran, Berkeley, Calif., to "Mr. Wattenmaker," Toronto, thanking him for sending "the magnificent catalogue of your Puvis de Chavannes exhibition. I realize how much we have forgotten about Puvis and how far reaching his influence on modern french painting was." He mentions Puvis' influence on Seurat and Cézanne, and congratulates Wattenmaker on "a very important piece of scholarship."

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Wattenmaker, Richard J.

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Loran, Erle, 1905-1999

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Loran (1905-1999) was a painter, writer, teacher at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of "Cézanne's Compositions: Analysis of his Form, With Diagrams and Photographs of his Motifs" (1943-1963). In 1976, Richard J. Wattenmaker was Chief Curator, Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, where he curated the exhibition "Puvis de Chavannes and the Modern Tradition," October 24-November 30, 1975. From the description of Letter from Erle Loran to Richard J. Wattenmaker, 1976 M...

Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre, 1824-1898

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French painter. From the description of Letters sent by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1866-1898. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77704338 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Saint-Juirs [usage of René Delorme], 1881 May 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270615880 ...