Clarence Carter
Brass Mug with Apples, 1925
oil on board
20 x 16 inches
LOUIS STERN GALLERIES opens an exhibition which traces the many different tendencies within abstraction between the wars. In 1913 the Armory Show brought European Modernism to America, helping to free American artists from the conservative artistic infrastructure by allowing them to absorb the innovations of the Post-Impressionists, the Cubists and other ground breaking European movements of the day. Due largely to the influence of this exhibition, by the mid-twenties Modernism was no longer anathema in American. Drawing upon, but not imitating, European sources, American artists such as Stuart Davis and Joseph Stella sought to merge newly discovered expressive possibilities with subjects peculiar to the vital urban landscape. Still others, Charles Sheeler and Niles Spencer for example, were drawn toward the simplicity of form and structure detected in the sensibilities of rural America. Those who took abstraction the furthest, who were satisfied that feeling by itself was sufficient to art, helped to pave the way for Abstract Expressionism.
The exhibition will include artists representative of all facets of abstraction. Along with Davis, Stella, Sheeler, and Spencer, the work of Milton Avery, Ben Benn, Robert Brackman, Konrad Cramer, Edwin Dickinson, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Rockwell Kent, John Marin, Alfred Maurer, William Schwartz, and others will be on exhibit.
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