Known as one of The Whitney Ten, Louis Schanker became one of the protesters against the Whitney Museum for the museum's unwillingness to exhibit abstract art. From 1940 to 1960, he taught at the New... Read full biography
Known as one of The Whitney Ten, Louis Schanker became one of the protesters against the Whitney Museum for the museum's unwillingness to exhibit abstract art. From 1940 to 1960, he taught at the New School of Social Research in New York and from 1964 at Bard College. As an artist, his emphasis was... Read full biography
Known as one of The Whitney Ten, Louis Schanker became one of the protesters against the Whitney Museum for the museum's unwillingness to exhibit abstract art. From 1940 to 1960, he taught at the New School of Social Research in New York and from 1964 at Bard College. As an artist, his emphasis was on experimentation and breaking away from Regionalism and Precisionism to focus on abstraction and emotional expression. However, he maintained that some element of realism lay at the core of his... Read full biography
Known as one of The Whitney Ten, Louis Schanker became one of the protesters against the Whitney Museum for the museum's unwillingness to exhibit abstract art. From 1940 to 1960, he taught at the New School of Social Research in New York and from 1964 at Bard College. As an artist, his emphasis was on experimentation and breaking away from Regionalism and Precisionism to focus on abstraction and emotional expression. However, he maintained that some element of realism lay at the core of his work. In the 1930s, he was a WPA artist and worked on murals in New York City. Partial Source: . Peter Hasting Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art... Read full biography
Known as one of The Whitney Ten, Louis Schanker became one of the protesters against the Whitney Museum for the museum's unwillingness to exhibit abstract art. From 1940 to 1960, he taught at the New School of Social Research in New York and from 1964 at Bard College. As an artist, his emphasis was on experimentation and breaking away from Regionalism and Precisionism to focus on abstraction and emotional expression. However, he maintained that some element of realism lay at the core of his work. In the 1930s, he was a WPA artist and worked on murals in New York City. Partial Source: . Peter Hasting Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (38)
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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
New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists
2000
Herskovic, Marika
393 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 and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
Painting a Place in America Jewish Artists in New York 1900-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Kleeblatt, Norman L and Susan Chevlowe (Editors)
208 pages (color)
A Spectrum of Innovation Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Acton, David
304 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
American Modernism
1989
Fahlman, Betsy
80 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980
1984
Watrous, James
334 pages (color)
Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art
1983
Contreras, Belasario R
253 pages
Drawing Acquisitions, 1978-1981 Whitney Museum of American Art
1981
Cummings, Paul
64 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists
1980
Johnson, Una E
266 pages (color)
Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst
544 pages (color)
Mural Painting in New York City: Under the WPA Federal Art Project
1978
Berman, Greta
300 pages
American Prints 1913-1963 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Castelman, Riva
160 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection