Charles Demuth
“I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold” (1928)
Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O’Keeffe The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the first large-scale exhibition of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from the personal collection of Alfred Stieglitz, acquired by the Museum in 1949.
October 13, 2011, through January 2, 2012
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Source: Metropolitan Museum / theartwolf.com
American photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a promoter of modern American and European art, and an important art collector. At his Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (1905-17), known as ‘291,’ Stieglitz exhibited the work of avant-garde European artists such as Picasso and Matisse, sometimes before it was shown anywhere else in America.
“Stieglitz and His Artists” features some 200 works by major European and American modernists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Vasily Kandinsky, Constantin Brancusi, Gino Severini, John Marin, Charles Demuth and Arthur Dove
Highlights of the exhibition include Picasso’s “Standing Female Nude” (1910), Kandinsky’s “Improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II)” (1912), Brancusi’s “Sleeping Muse” (1910), Demuth’s “I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold” (1928), and 14 works by O’Keeffe, including “Black Iris” (1926) and “Cow’s Skull: Red, White, and Blue” (1931).
The exhibition is complemented by “Photographic Treasures from the Collection of Alfred Stieglitz”, an installation that features 45 masterpieces from Stieglitz’s collection of photography, including works by Anne Brigman and Edward Steichen. On view at the Museum’s Howard Gilman Gallery from October 13, 2011, through February 26, 2012.
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