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One such collector was John Quinn, a New York lawyer of Irish extraction who was born in Ohio in 1870. Quinn was a man with the vast energies and deep-seated antagonisms of the self-made professional. Although he had begun collecting earlier, from the time he served as legal counsel for the Armory Show in 1913 to the time of his death of cancer ...
I am indebted to Judith Zilczer for having allowed me to consult a copy of the page listing Quinn’s purchases from this exhibition. For a complete account of Quinn as a collector see Zilczer, ‘The Noble Buyer:’ John Quinn, Patron of the Avant-Garde, exhibition catalogue, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., 1978.
Quinn’s original intention was to purchase all of Gaudier’s work outright. As it turned out, he ultimately succeeded in acquiring only three sculptures through the Leicester Galleries, two others from the Omega Workshops, and a sixth from Frank Harris, as well as a group of approximately 40 drawings which he had managed to buy earlier from Sophie Brzeska through Ezra Pound.
Apr 14, 2006 · Former Sheffield Wednesday and Rotherham footballer, John Quinn, is retiring as the figurehead of the fundraising organisation, "Johnny Quinn's All Stars" after thirty years of charity work for good causes. Quinn, now 67, is to be replaced by former Owls and Leeds player, Melvyn Sterland who said...
A fascinating example can be found in his correspondence with the American lawyer and art collector John Quinn, 14 carried on from 1916 until the latter’s death in 1925. 15 On two occasions the artist included several photographs of his works in his letters, with the obvious intention of selling the sculptures to Quinn, whose collection at the time of his death included 32 works by Brancusi ...
John Zorn (musician) The automatic drawings of Helen Butler Wells and the spirit artist that she channeled, Eswald. Wells was a spiritualist who lived on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and the drawings she created in her trances, seen at Cavin-Morris Gallery in February, are definitely some of the most inspiring and remarkable things that I’ve come across this year.
Feb 12, 2019 · Mason was born Alva John Henry Jr. on March 30, 1927, in Madrid, Nebraska. His work was shown at Los Angeles’s influential Ferus Gallery and, in 1966, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 1974, the Pasadena Museum of Modern Art staged a midcareer survey that included his early firebrick works, for which he would stack firebricks on museum floors and build environmental, site-specific ...
While John Walker’s recent work has shown grid fragments used in paintings: as distinct pictorial elements, among others, to reinforce the uprightness of the surface. The regular grid, one might say, is but an aspect of repetitiveness, and developed as such in the ’60s to “objectify” the repetitive organizations of Abstract Expressionism.
John Pope-Hennessy has written of how, in his view, the Renaissance portrait represented a cumulative achievement of physical and “psychological truthfulness,” the “story of how eyes cease to be linear symbols and become instead the light-reflecting, light-perceiving organs we ourselves possess.” 17 According to Norman Bryson, the 17th-century painter Charles LeBrun had already begun ...
Sep 10, 2024 · GLENN LOWRY TO DEPART AS DIRECTOR OF MOMA IN 2025. By News Desk. September 10, 2024 3:41 pm. Glenn Lowry, New York, November 19, 2018. Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images. Glenn Lowry, who has led the Museum of Modern Art for three decades, will step down as director of the New York institution next September, the New York Times reports.
