Florine Stettheimer
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt...foil, cellophane, saran wrap and glitter, embracing kitsch and intentionally tacky. His work has been compared to that of Florine Stettheimer, who used cellophane in her sets for the Gertrude Stein/Virgil Thomson opera Four Saints in... In this article: Cellophane, James Hampton, Jack Smith, Four Saints in Three Acts, and Florine Stettheimer |
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Wikipedia | October 07, 2009
Florine Stettheimer
Florine Stettheimer (August 29, 1871 - May 11, 1944) was an American artist. She has been described as "a Deco -influenced early Modernist who's never really gotten her due". Florine was born in Rochester, New York to Joseph Stettheimer...
In this article: Gertrude Stein, Florine, New York, Executor, World War I, and Art Students League of New York
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Four Saints in Three Acts
...after a career as a speculator in the international grain market. The fanciful sets of the first production, designed by artist Florine Stettheimer, included such things as cellophane backdrops, and the costumes (also Stettheimer's) were...
In this article: Four Saints in Three Acts, Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein, Ignatius of Loyola, Eva Jessye, Avila, Cellophane, Frederick Ashton, and George Balanchine
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nymag.com: Art | August 10, 2009
Teeing Up the Twentieth Century
...man for practically everything twentieth-century, including Expressionism and Surrealism. He presages artists as diverse as Miro, Florine Stettheimer, Henry Darger, Cy Twombly, and Verne Dawson. Not all his work is up to that lefty level.
In this article: James Ensor, Georges Seurat, Museum of Modern Art, Pablo Picasso, Brussels, Artists Rights Society, El Greco, and Paul Gauguin
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New York Times | February 19, 2009
Classical Music/Opera Listings
...Houseman and choreographed by Frederick Ashton, both in their early 30s, with costumes and sets (utilizing cellophane) by Florine Stettheimer. Coming just after the premiere of the production at the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, the...
In this article: Lincoln Center, Anthony Tommasini, Alice Tully Hall, Allan Kozinn, Eugene Onegin, Imogen Cooper, Metropolitan Opera House, La rondine, Four Saints in Three Acts, and Olivier Messiaen
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Mary A. Bell
...such as author Gertrude Stein, writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten, publicist Mark Lutz, critic Henry McBride and artist Florine Stettheimer. Her drawings are elegant scenes from the everyday life of the rich, as well as Creole or...
In this article: Mary A. Bell, Mark Lutz, Heart failure, Gaston Lachaise, Henry McBride, Carl Van Vechten, Gertrude Stein, and James F. Bell
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Where Are All the Women Artists at MoMA? -- New York Magazine
...and a moral emergency; it amounts to apartheid. Even the Met has integrated women into its twentieth-century wing, hanging four Florine Stettheimer paintings and a room of ten Georgia O'Keeffes. Obviously, MoMA can't invent modern masters...
In this article: Museum of Modern Art, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Georgia O'Keeffe, Bridget Riley, Louise Nevelson, Willem de Kooning, and John Elderfield
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Business Week | September 25, 2007
Online Extra: Meet the IDEA Jury
...art and design and has organized over 80 international museum exhibitions on these subjects, including co-curating Florine Stettheimer: Manhattan Fantastica at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Bloemink earned her doctorate in...
In this article: Industrial design
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Florine Stettheimer (August 19, 1871 - May 11, 1944) was an American artist. She has been described as "a Deco-influenced early Modernist who’s never really gotten her due".
Stettheimer was born in Rochester, New York to a wealthy family. She spent much of her early life traveling, studying art in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and Switzerland. She studied for three years in the mid-1890s at the Art Students League in New York, but came into her own artistically upon her permanent return to New York after the start of World War I. In October 1916, the only one-person exhibition of her work during her lifetime took place at New York's Knoedler & Company. She exhibited 12 "high-keyed, decorative paintings", none of which were sold.
Cushioned by family resources, Stettheimer refrained from self-promotion and considered her painting "an entirely private pursuit". She intended to have her works destroyed after her death, a wish defied by her sister Henrietta, her executor.
Stettheimer's privileged position pervades her work. As one critic has written, "money she regarded as a birthright, decidedly not something to be flaunted in the shape of a dozen yachts, but rather to be used as a palliative against the more unpleasant aspects of the world outside... In this frame of mind, she felt free to depict life as a series of boating parties, picnics, summertime naps, parades and strolls down Fifth Avenue."
She created the sets and costumes for the 1934 production of Four Saints in Three Acts, an opera by Virgil Thompson with a libretto by Gertrude Stein. Her designs, which used cellophane in innovative ways, proved to be the project for which she was best known during her lifetime.
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