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Shaykin, Rebecca, author.
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Halpert, Edith Gregor, 1900-1970.
Downtown Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York.
Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Folk art -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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Edith Halpert : the Downtown Gallery and the rise of American art / Rebecca Shaykin.
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Shaykin, Rebecca, author.
New York : Jewish Museum, New York under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ; New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]
Subjects
Halpert, Edith Gregor, 1900-1970.
Downtown Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York.
Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Folk art -- United States -- Exhibitions.
ISBN:
9780300231007 (paper over board : hardback) :
0300231008 (paper over board : hardback)
Description:
232 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
Contents:
Married to American art -- Our gallery -- American ancestors -- The picture boom -- The Halpert influence -- Selections from the collection of Edith Halpert.
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The question "What is American art?" might conjure the hyperrealism of Raphaelle Peale and William Harnett, the bold graphic style of Stuart Davis and Jacob Lawrence, or the Precisionist forms of Charles Sheeler. Little known, however, is that such notions of American art are significantly owed to a Russian Jewish immigrant named Edith Halpert. The founder of the Downtown Gallery in New York, Halpert shaped an identity for American art, declaring that its thrilling heterogeneity and democratic values were what most distinguished it from the European avant-garde. For forty-plus years, Halpert's gallery brought recognition and market success to now-legendary American artists-among them Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe, in addition to the artists mentioned above. She relentlessly championed nonwhite, female, and unknown artists and was a formative advisor in the shaping of many of the nation's most celebrated art museums and collections, from San Francisco to Boston. Not content with those achievements, she also pioneered the appreciation and collecting of American folk art. Richly illustrated with works that passed through her groundbreaking gallery, this book tells the extraordinary and largely overlooked story of her career and legacy. The artists Halpert launched into the American canon are household names-and this book compellingly argues that hers should be, as well.
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