Trained both as an architect and painter, Morton Schamberg lived a short but productive life, and earned a reputation for being a visionary who foresaw machines as both dehumanizing and contributing... Read full biography
Trained both as an architect and painter, Morton Schamberg lived a short but productive life, and earned a reputation for being a visionary who foresaw machines as both dehumanizing and contributing to good living. Throughout his life, he was fascinated by what he perceived as beauty in their... Read full biography
Trained both as an architect and painter, Morton Schamberg lived a short but productive life, and earned a reputation for being a visionary who foresaw machines as both dehumanizing and contributing to good living. Throughout his life, he was fascinated by what he perceived as beauty in their shapes and lines, and in 1916 began a series of still lifes paintings of machine objects. He was also an accomplished photographer, concentrating primarily on portrait subjects. Schamberg was born in... Read full biography
Trained both as an architect and painter, Morton Schamberg lived a short but productive life, and earned a reputation for being a visionary who foresaw machines as both dehumanizing and contributing to good living. Throughout his life, he was fascinated by what he perceived as beauty in their shapes and lines, and in 1916 began a series of still lifes paintings of machine objects. He was also an accomplished photographer, concentrating primarily on portrait subjects. Schamberg was born in Philadelphia and studied at the University of Pennsylvania, and beginning 1903, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. At the Academy, he was a student of William Merritt Chase and was best friends with Charles Sheeler, future Precisionist painter with... Read full biography
Trained both as an architect and painter, Morton Schamberg lived a short but productive life, and earned a reputation for being a visionary who foresaw machines as both dehumanizing and contributing to good living. Throughout his life, he was fascinated by what he perceived as beauty in their shapes and lines, and in 1916 began a series of still lifes paintings of machine objects. He was also an accomplished photographer, concentrating primarily on portrait subjects. Schamberg was born in Philadelphia and studied at the University of Pennsylvania, and beginning 1903, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. At the Academy, he was a student of William Merritt Chase and was best friends with Charles Sheeler, future Precisionist painter with whom Schamberg later shared painting and photography studios in Philadelphia and Doylestown. Chase... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (92)
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Works on Paper from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art
2016
Rudd, Brandon and Gregory Nosan, Editors; Wally Mason, Director's Mewssage
312 pages (color)
A Legacy of Giving: The Anna and Frank Hall Collection (The Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln) (Exhibition catalog)
2012
Embury, Stuart; Brandon K. Ruud; Norman Geske; Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Introduction
80 pages (color)
Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones: The Artist Who Lived Twice
2010
Smith, Barbara Lehman
264 pages (color)
Cezanne and American Modernism (Exhibition catalog)
2010
Stavitsky, Gail; Katherine Rothkopf
372 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
Side by Side on Monhegan: The Henri Circle and The American Impressionists (Exhibition catalog)
2004
60 pages (color)
Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art, 1909-1936 Hollis Taggart Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Cauman, John (Essay); Stacey B. Epstein (Intro)
0 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
Modern American Painting 1910-194 Toward A New Perspective (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Agee, William C
24 pages
The American Fauves: The Color of Modernism (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Gerdts, William H; Hollis Taggart
159 pages (color)
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Objects of Desire The Modern Still Life (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Rowell, Margit
232 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
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)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
New York Dada 1915-23
1994
Naumann, Francis M
255 pages (color)
Precisionism in America 1915-1941 Reordering Reality (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Stavitsky, Gail; Ellen Handy, Miles Orvell et all
160 pages (color)
Ten Precisionist Artists Annotated Bibliographies
1992
Harnsberger, R S/D Henderson
350 pages
American Impressionism from the Sheldon Memorial Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Gerdts, William (Essay); George Neubert, (Editor)
79 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)
Charles Sheeler and the Cult of the Machine
1991
Lucic, Karen
167 pages (color)
Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde
1991
Watson, Steven
439 pages (color)
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
Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes
196 pages (color)
American Pastels In the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1989
Bolger, Doreen (others)
247 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
The Story of Modern Art
1989
Lynton, Norbert
400 pages (color)
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Morton Livingston Schamberg The Machine Pastels
1986
Agee, William C
42 pages (color)
The Advent of Modernism Post-Impressionism...1900-1918 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Morrin, Peter (others)
200 pages (color)
American Paintings Selections from the Amon Carter Museum
1986
Muhlert, Jan K (intro)
128 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)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all
314 pages (color)
American Masterworks on Paper: Drawings, Watercolors and Prints (Hirschl & Adler Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Dreishpoon, Douglas (essay)
63 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Revenge of the Philistines Art and Culture 1972-1984
1985
Kramer, Hilton
445 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
Morton Livingston Schamberg (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Agee, William C
46 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Images of America Precisionist Painting and Photography (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Tsujimoto, Karen
248 pages (color)
Early American Modernist Painting 1910-1935
1981
Davidson, Abraham A
324 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
Lawrence H Bloedel Collection Loan Exhibition/Whitney/Williams College (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Pope, Annemarie H
64 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Synchromism American Color Abstraction 1910-1925 (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Levin, Gail
144 pages (color)
The Modern Spirit American Painting 1908-1935 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Brown, Milton W
96 pages (color)
Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde
1977
Homer, William Innes
335 pages
200 Years of American Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Armstrong, Tom
336 pages (color)
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art Philadelphia Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Marcus, George H. (Editor)
166 pages (color)
Pennsylvania Academy Moderns 1910-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Boyle, Richard/Joshua Taylor
40 pages
The American Scene: Early Twentieth Century (Lamplight Collection of American Art)
1975
Wasserman, Emily
91 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
Students of William Merritt Chase (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Pisano, Ronald J
44 pages
The Genius of American Painting
1973
Wilmerding, John
352 pages (color)
Rhode Island School of Design Bulletin/American Watercolors & Drawings
1972
Ostraw, Stephen/Susan Carmalt
76 pages
A History of American Painting
1971
Baigell, Mathew
288 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
Color and Form The Origin and Evolution of Abstract Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Gardiner, Henry G
103 pages (color)
American Painting From the Armory Show to the Depression
1970
Brown, Milton W
244 pages
American Painting 1900-1970
1970
Time-Life Books, Editors
192 pages (color)
The Albert Pilavin Collection Twentieth-Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Rhode Island School of Design
60 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Ferdinand Howald Collection (The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts) (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Tucker, Marcia (Editor); Kasha Linville (Essays)
119 pages (color)
Traveler's Guide to American Art
1968
Norman, Jane & Theodore
436 pages
An American Collection The Neuberger Collection
1968
Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott
463 pages (color)
Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage (Museum of Modern Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Rubin, William S
252 pages
American Art Since 1900 A Critical History
1967
Rose, Barbara
320 pages (color)
Cubism, Its Impact in the USA 1910-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1967
U of New Mexico Art Museum
64 pages (color)
Three Centuries of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Goodrich, Lloyd
150 pages (color)
Roots of Abstract Art in America, 1910-1930 (Smithsonian Institution) (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Breeskin, Adelyn D
84 pages (color)
The Story of the Armory Show (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Brown, Milton W
320 pages
Pioneers of Modern Art in America Decade of the Armory Show, 1910-1920
1963
Goodrich, Lloyd
94 pages (color)
The New Tradition Modern Americans Before 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Vigtel, Gudmund
68 pages (color)
The Decade of the Armory Show New Directions in American Art 1910-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Whitney Museum
79 pages (color)
Morton Livingston Schamberg
1963
Wolf, Ben
125 pages
American Genius in Review No I
1960
Macagy, Douglas
46 pages
The Precisionist View in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1960
Walker Art Center
62 pages (color)
Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art
1951
Baur, John I H
170 pages
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America (Exhibition catalog)
1951
Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff
159 pages (color)
Pioneers of Modern Art in America (Exhibition catalog)
1946
Whitney Museum
48 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index