Bøger af Vivian Endicott Barnett

Arthur Jerome Eddy, the Chicago lawyer, author, and art collector, was a legend in his lifetime (1859-1920). He was the first person to buy radically modern paintings by Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia at the 1913 Army Show, the first American collector to purchase works by Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, and arguably the first person to write a book about modern art in the U.S. A prominent corporation lawyer, one century later, Eddy is best known as a collector of modern art. This book explores how he began to collect, when and from whom he bought art, which artists he favored, and why he acquired certain works and not others. Illus.

This volume presents almost 500 items from the collection of Emmy (Galka) Scheyer, reproducing most in full colour. It features numerous works by the Blue Four, as well as those by such European artists as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Emil Nolde, Kurt Schwitters and El Lissitzky.

Vasily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 and, at the age of thirty, decided to study painting in Munich. He moved to Paris in 1934 and continued to draw and paint until his death in 1944. This volume catalogue raisonne of Kandinsky's drawings publishes many drawings and presents insights into the artist's creative process.