Katherine Sophie Dreier was an artist, writer, and collector associated with the Dada movement in New York. Early on, she manifested her dual interests in social issues and art. Her own painting was... Read full biography
Katherine Sophie Dreier was an artist, writer, and collector associated with the Dada movement in New York. Early on, she manifested her dual interests in social issues and art. Her own painting was abstract with a spiritual emphasis, and she became a member of the Abstraction-Creation group. She... Read full biography
Katherine Sophie Dreier was an artist, writer, and collector associated with the Dada movement in New York. Early on, she manifested her dual interests in social issues and art. Her own painting was abstract with a spiritual emphasis, and she became a member of the Abstraction-Creation group. She had an extensive art collection of her own that she donated to Yale University in 1941. She was born into a prominent Brooklyn family on 10 September 1877. Her parents were Dorothea Adelheid and John... Read full biography
Katherine Sophie Dreier was an artist, writer, and collector associated with the Dada movement in New York. Early on, she manifested her dual interests in social issues and art. Her own painting was abstract with a spiritual emphasis, and she became a member of the Abstraction-Creation group. She had an extensive art collection of her own that she donated to Yale University in 1941. She was born into a prominent Brooklyn family on 10 September 1877. Her parents were Dorothea Adelheid and John Caspar Theodor Dreier, both immigrants from Bremen, Germany. Katherine was the youngest of five children. Dreier's father, Theodore, had amassed a modest fortune in an iron importing business. Years later Katherine would thank him for "the vision he... Read full biography
Katherine Sophie Dreier was an artist, writer, and collector associated with the Dada movement in New York. Early on, she manifested her dual interests in social issues and art. Her own painting was abstract with a spiritual emphasis, and she became a member of the Abstraction-Creation group. She had an extensive art collection of her own that she donated to Yale University in 1941. She was born into a prominent Brooklyn family on 10 September 1877. Her parents were Dorothea Adelheid and John Caspar Theodor Dreier, both immigrants from Bremen, Germany. Katherine was the youngest of five children. Dreier's father, Theodore, had amassed a modest fortune in an iron importing business. Years later Katherine would thank him for "the vision he firmly held to, ahead of his time, of giving the same 'privilege to his daughters as he gave to his son." Am... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (39)
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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
Women Artists and the Development of Modern American Art
2001
Swinth, Kristen
305 pages
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
Making Mischief Dada Invades New York (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Naumann, Francis/Beth Venn
304 pages (color)
To Be Modern American Encounters with Cezanne and Company (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Yount, Sylvia/Elizabeth Johns
80 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists
1994
Bailey, Brooke
207 pages
New York Dada 1915-23
1994
Naumann, Francis M
255 pages (color)
Theme & Improvisation Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Levin, Gail/Marianne Lorenz
236 pages
Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde
1991
Watson, Steven
439 pages (color)
American Drawings in the French National Collection, 1760-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Wiesinger, Veronique; Clair Vaudevire; Pierre Rosenberg (Preface)
110 pages (color)
American Women Artists 1830-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Tufts, Eleanor (others)
256 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Early American Modernist Painting 1910-1935
1981
Davidson, Abraham A
324 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
The Modern Spirit American Painting 1908-1935 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Brown, Milton W
96 pages (color)
American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (A Catalogue to 1923)
1976
Flower, Dean/Francis Murphy
119 pages
Roots of Abstract Art in America, 1910-1930 (Smithsonian Institution) (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Breeskin, Adelyn D
84 pages (color)
Women Artists of America 1707-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Gerdts, William H
32 pages
The Story of the Armory Show (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Brown, Milton W
320 pages
The Proud Possessors: The lives, times and tastes of some adventurous American art collector
1958
Saarinen, Aline B.
423 pages
Dictionary of Abstract Painting with a History of Abstract Painting
1957
Seuphor, Michel
305 pages (color)
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America (Exhibition catalog)
1951
Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff
159 pages (color)
Catalogue: Annual Exhibition John H. Vanderpoel Art Association (By Contributors to the Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Klug, William L (Introductory Essay)
64 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Modern Works of Art: Fifth Anniversary Exhibition Museum of Modern Art, New York (Exhibition catalog)
1934
Barr, Alfred Jr. (Essay); A Conger Goodyear (Intro)