The following is from The New York Times Art & Design section, courtesy of Paul Gallagher, Stillwell House Fine Art and Antiques. Antiques Restoration Project: An Artist's History and His Collection.... Read full biography
The following is from The New York Times Art & Design section, courtesy of Paul Gallagher, Stillwell House Fine Art and Antiques. Antiques Restoration Project: An Artist's History and His Collection. By EVE M. KAHN. Published: July 19, 2012. Leon Dabo's own descendants have heard little about him.... Read full biography
The following is from The New York Times Art & Design section, courtesy of Paul Gallagher, Stillwell House Fine Art and Antiques. Antiques Restoration Project: An Artist's History and His Collection. By EVE M. KAHN. Published: July 19, 2012. Leon Dabo's own descendants have heard little about him. Dabo, a French-born painter, died in 1960, at 96, after a restless career living in and around New York and in Europe and exhibiting in hundreds of group and solo shows. His early subjects were... Read full biography
The following is from The New York Times Art & Design section, courtesy of Paul Gallagher, Stillwell House Fine Art and Antiques. Antiques Restoration Project: An Artist's History and His Collection. By EVE M. KAHN. Published: July 19, 2012. Leon Dabo's own descendants have heard little about him. Dabo, a French-born painter, died in 1960, at 96, after a restless career living in and around New York and in Europe and exhibiting in hundreds of group and solo shows. His early subjects were saints, and later he favored twilit riverbanks, battlefields, bouquets and eerie pastures striped with dead trees. Dabo ended up estranged from his family, and he has largely fallen off the radar of art historians. Albert Douglas, 91, Dabo's only grandson,... Read full biography
The following is from The New York Times Art & Design section, courtesy of Paul Gallagher, Stillwell House Fine Art and Antiques. Antiques Restoration Project: An Artist's History and His Collection. By EVE M. KAHN. Published: July 19, 2012. Leon Dabo's own descendants have heard little about him. Dabo, a French-born painter, died in 1960, at 96, after a restless career living in and around New York and in Europe and exhibiting in hundreds of group and solo shows. His early subjects were saints, and later he favored twilit riverbanks, battlefields, bouquets and eerie pastures striped with dead trees. Dabo ended up estranged from his family, and he has largely fallen off the radar of art historians. Albert Douglas, 91, Dabo's only grandson, told art dealers during a recent filmed interview that he hardly knew his grand... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (85)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Modern Art in America, 1908-1968
2016
Agee, William C.
352 pages (color)
The William Van Horne Collection: A Dutch Treat (Memo Books)
2015
Eggermont-Molenaar, Mary
482 pages (color)
Leon Dabo's Florals: In Defense of Beauty (Sullivan Goss)
2014
Vonk, Nathan and Dr. William Gerdts
201 pages (color)
The Drawings of Leon Dabo (Sullivan Goss)
2012
Goss, Frank and Jeremy Tessmer
136 pages (color)
The Pastels of Leon Dabo (Sullivan Goss)
2012
Hartley, Dr. Cody, Dr. William Gerdts, Frank Goss and Nathan Vonk
136 pages (color)
A History of American Tonalism
2010
Cleveland, David Adams
592 pages (color)
Tonalism: James Abbott McNeill Whistler, George Inness, Leon Dabo, Theodore Stamos, Xavier Martinez, Jack Cassinetto, Dwight William Tryon
2010
Editor
78 pages (color)
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
The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism (Spanierman Galleries, LLC.) (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Sessions, Ralph (Intro); Nicolai Cikovsky, Ellen Denker, et all
200 pages (color)
Artists of the Litchfield Hills (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Austin, Robert Michael
132 pages (color)
American Society of Contemporary Artists
2003
Mann, F & Keller C (essay)
72 pages (color)
American Impressionism, 1880-1915 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Hauptman, William
144 pages (color)
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
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1997
1997
Troyen; Moore; Diamond
0 pages
A Checklist of Painters, circa 1200-1994 Represented in the Witt Library (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
1995
Editor, Witt Library
557 pages
Union List of Artist Names
1994
Bower, James; Martha Buca
0 pages
American Paintings at the High Museum of Art
1994
High Museum of Art
216 pages (color)
Dictionnaire des Artistes de Langue francaise en Amerique du Nord: peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes, et orfevres
1992
Karel, David
962 pages
Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam
1991
Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll.
271 pages (color)
American Drawings in the French National Collection, 1760-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Wiesinger, Veronique; Clair Vaudevire; Pierre Rosenberg (Preface)
110 pages (color)
The New Orleans Museum of Art, The First Seventy-Five Years
1990
Dunbar, Prescott N
0 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Americans and Paris (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Marlais, Michael Andrew
62 pages (color)
American Pastels: In the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1989
Bolger, Fritzche, Hazzi, etc.
0 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The Julian Academy Paris, 1868-1939: Spring Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Fehrer, Catherine
200 pages
American Impressionism and other movements (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Schwarz-Philadelphia
53 pages (color)
New York 1913 The Armory Show and the Patterson Strike Pageant
1988
Green, Martin
325 pages
Artists of Michigan from The Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Sweeney, J Gray
215 pages
Discovering Stained Glass in Detroit
1987
Tutag, Nola H; Lucy Hamilton
0 pages (color)
In Nature's Ways American Landscape/Late Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Weber, Bruce/William H Gerdts
120 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Immortal Eight & Its Influenc (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Perlman, Bennard B
108 pages
Tonalism An American Experience (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Gerdts, William H (others)
94 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940
1980
Johnson, Jane; A Greutzner
567 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Hills, Patricia
194 pages (color)
A Matter of Life and Death: Vital Biographical Facts about Selected
1977
Schwab, Arnold T
0 pages
American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue
1975
Chambers, Bruce W
127 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Artists of Early Michigan A Biographical Dictionary of Artists Native To or Active in Michigan 1701-1900
1975
Gibson, Arthur Hopkin
250 pages
Auction Prices of American Artists First Edition
1974
Hislop, Richard
0 pages
The Color of Mood American Tonalism 1880-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Corn, Wanda M
60 pages (color)
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
Tonalism: An American Interpretation of Landscape (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Cohen, Mildred
0 pages
Catalogue of American Paintings, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1970
1970
Museum Staff (editors)
0 pages
McGraw Hill Dictionary of Art
1969
Myers, Bernard S
0 pages
Diary of an Art Dealer
1966
Gimpel, Rene
0 pages
A Dictionary of British Flower, Fruit and Still Life Painters (3 Volumes)