Fritz Glarner contributed significantly to the conceptual development of geometric art. While, most believe that the Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian, was the father of Geometric Abstraction*, the... Read full biography
Fritz Glarner contributed significantly to the conceptual development of geometric art. While, most believe that the Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian, was the father of Geometric Abstraction*, the history of development of geometric art should also include a considerable number of Mondrian's European... Read full biography
Fritz Glarner contributed significantly to the conceptual development of geometric art. While, most believe that the Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian, was the father of Geometric Abstraction*, the history of development of geometric art should also include a considerable number of Mondrian's European contemporaries and several Americans as well. Fritz Glarner was one of these Americans. He was, indeed, deeply influenced by the Dutch master Mondrian, but Glarner's relationship with him during... Read full biography
Fritz Glarner contributed significantly to the conceptual development of geometric art. While, most believe that the Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian, was the father of Geometric Abstraction*, the history of development of geometric art should also include a considerable number of Mondrian's European contemporaries and several Americans as well. Fritz Glarner was one of these Americans. He was, indeed, deeply influenced by the Dutch master Mondrian, but Glarner's relationship with him during Mondrian's last years was probably as much that of a colleague as a disciple. During these few years, 1940-44, Glarner's personal development achieved an independence from Mondrian's thinking which produced a fruitful outgrowth--in Glarner's conception of... Read full biography
Fritz Glarner contributed significantly to the conceptual development of geometric art. While, most believe that the Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian, was the father of Geometric Abstraction*, the history of development of geometric art should also include a considerable number of Mondrian's European contemporaries and several Americans as well. Fritz Glarner was one of these Americans. He was, indeed, deeply influenced by the Dutch master Mondrian, but Glarner's relationship with him during Mondrian's last years was probably as much that of a colleague as a disciple. During these few years, 1940-44, Glarner's personal development achieved an independence from Mondrian's thinking which produced a fruitful outgrowth--in Glarner's conception of "relational painting." . This effort to produce a "purer and closer relationship between form and space" led to the identification... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (77)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
American Paintings from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: An Institutional History in Pictures (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Siedell, Daniel A.
9 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Modern American Painting 1910-194 Toward A New Perspective (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Agee, William C
24 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
Abstraction, Geometry, Painting Geometric Abstract Painting in America since 1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Auping, Michael
232 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Leon Polk Smith (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Monery, Jean-Paul
126 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Constructive Concepts:A History Constructive Art from Cubism to the Present
1989
Rotzler, Willy
332 pages (color)
Universal Limited Art Editions History and Catalogue/the 1st 25 Years
1989
Sparks, Esther
552 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
A Concise History of Modern Painting
1988
Read, Herbert
418 pages (color)
Postwar Paintings from Brandeis University From Brandeis University (Rose Art Museum) (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Belz, Carl;Beth Goldberg
40 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
The Empire State Collection Art for the Public
1987
Sandler, Irving
214 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Rose Art Museum Selected 20th Century Paintings
1986
Rose Art Museum
147 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
With an Eye to American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Miller, Dorothy C
16 pages
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection
1984
Severinghaus, J Walter
333 pages (color)
American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers
1983
Adams, Clinton
228 pages (color)
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Lane, John R and Susan Larsen
256 pages (color)
American Art Since 1945
1982
Ashton, Dore
224 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)