A painter, Lorser Feitelson became known for abstraction but briefly explored mural painting of regionalist subjects. In his signature work, Feitelson used many images and symbols that evoke dreams... Read full biography
A painter, Lorser Feitelson became known for abstraction but briefly explored mural painting of regionalist subjects. In his signature work, Feitelson used many images and symbols that evoke dreams and address the subconscious mind. He was a key figure in modern art in California at a time when... Read full biography
A painter, Lorser Feitelson became known for abstraction but briefly explored mural painting of regionalist subjects. In his signature work, Feitelson used many images and symbols that evoke dreams and address the subconscious mind. He was a key figure in modern art in California at a time when that area had little exposure to avant-garde styles of which he explored a variety including Surrealism, Cubism and Kinetic work. Feitelson was born in Savannah, Georgia but grew up in New York City. His... Read full biography
A painter, Lorser Feitelson became known for abstraction but briefly explored mural painting of regionalist subjects. In his signature work, Feitelson used many images and symbols that evoke dreams and address the subconscious mind. He was a key figure in modern art in California at a time when that area had little exposure to avant-garde styles of which he explored a variety including Surrealism, Cubism and Kinetic work. Feitelson was born in Savannah, Georgia but grew up in New York City. His father was an art connoisseur and took his son on frequent visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After the 1913 Armory Show in New York, which introduced modern art to America, he turned to abstraction and by age eighteen, had established a... Read full biography
A painter, Lorser Feitelson became known for abstraction but briefly explored mural painting of regionalist subjects. In his signature work, Feitelson used many images and symbols that evoke dreams and address the subconscious mind. He was a key figure in modern art in California at a time when that area had little exposure to avant-garde styles of which he explored a variety including Surrealism, Cubism and Kinetic work. Feitelson was born in Savannah, Georgia but grew up in New York City. His father was an art connoisseur and took his son on frequent visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After the 1913 Armory Show in New York, which introduced modern art to America, he turned to abstraction and by age eighteen, had established a studio. In the 1920s he went back and forth between New York and Paris and exhibited at the Salon D'Automne in P... Read full biography
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About Lorser Feitelson: Books
Books & Publications (68)
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A Seed of Modernism- The Art Students League of Los Angeles (Exhibition catalog)
2008
Kovinic, Marian, Dr. Will South, Julia Armstrong-Totten (Pasadena Museum of California Art)
160 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
Lorser Feitelson: The Kinetic Series- Works from 1916-1923 (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Louis Stern Fine Arts and Peter Selz
104 pages (color)
Helen Lundeberg and the Illusory Landscape: Five Decades of Painting
2004
Hickey, Dave; Diane Moran
136 pages (color)
Karl Benjamin: Paintings from 1950-1965 (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Louis Stern Fine Arts and Harold B. Nelson
46 pages (color)
Lorser Feitelson and the Invention of Hard Edge Painting: 1945-1965 (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Hopkins, Henry; Michael Duncan
100 pages (color)
With an Eye and a Passion: Selections from The Marion Collection