Russian born with the name Naum Pevsner, Naum Gabo became a sculptor, painter and educator and changed his name to avert confusion between him and his brother, Antoine Pevsner. He and his brother... Read full biography
Russian born with the name Naum Pevsner, Naum Gabo became a sculptor, painter and educator and changed his name to avert confusion between him and his brother, Antoine Pevsner. He and his brother both became distinguished for their Constructivist sculpture. He left Russia in 1922, lived in Berlin... Read full biography
Russian born with the name Naum Pevsner, Naum Gabo became a sculptor, painter and educator and changed his name to avert confusion between him and his brother, Antoine Pevsner. He and his brother both became distinguished for their Constructivist sculpture. He left Russia in 1922, lived in Berlin for ten years, then Paris for five years and then England from 1937 to 1946, when he emigrated to America and settled in Middlebury, Connecticut. His art education was at the University of Munich in... Read full biography
Russian born with the name Naum Pevsner, Naum Gabo became a sculptor, painter and educator and changed his name to avert confusion between him and his brother, Antoine Pevsner. He and his brother both became distinguished for their Constructivist sculpture. He left Russia in 1922, lived in Berlin for ten years, then Paris for five years and then England from 1937 to 1946, when he emigrated to America and settled in Middlebury, Connecticut. His art education was at the University of Munich in Germany. Gabo had the prime of his career before coming to America but had much influence as an educator on a succeeding generation of sculptors including Jose de Rivera and Richard Lippold. From 1953 to 1954, he taught at the Harvard Graduate School... Read full biography
Russian born with the name Naum Pevsner, Naum Gabo became a sculptor, painter and educator and changed his name to avert confusion between him and his brother, Antoine Pevsner. He and his brother both became distinguished for their Constructivist sculpture. He left Russia in 1922, lived in Berlin for ten years, then Paris for five years and then England from 1937 to 1946, when he emigrated to America and settled in Middlebury, Connecticut. His art education was at the University of Munich in Germany. Gabo had the prime of his career before coming to America but had much influence as an educator on a succeeding generation of sculptors including Jose de Rivera and Richard Lippold. From 1953 to 1954, he taught at the Harvard Graduate School and in 1959, gave Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art, which were later published in 1962... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (69)
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St. Ives Artists: A Companion
2009
Button, Virginia
80 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
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
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Addison Gallery
512 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Drawing the Line Reappraising Drawing Past and Present (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Craig-Martin, Michael
108 pages (color)
History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts From the Dawn of History to the Present Day
1995
Janson, H W; Dora Jane Janson
960 pages (color)
Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism (4 Volumes)
1993
Greenberg, Clement; Dr. John O'Brian, Editor
622 pages
Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
1993
Kostelanetz, Richard
246 pages
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Artists in Quotation Dictionary of Creative Thoughts of Painters etc
1989
La Cour, Donna Ward
196 pages
The Story of Modern Art
1989
Lynton, Norbert
400 pages (color)
Constructive Concepts:A History Constructive Art from Cubism to the Present
1989
Rotzler, Willy
332 pages (color)
A Concise History of Modern Painting
1988
Read, Herbert
418 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
The Empire State Collection Art for the Public
1987
Sandler, Irving
214 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Naum Gabo Sixty Years of Constructivism
1985
Nash, Steven/Jorn Merkert
272 pages (color)
Sculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984
Craven, Wayne
782 pages
Jewish Experience In the Twentieth Century
1984
Kampf, Avram
240 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
Drawing in Air Sculptors' Drawing 1882-1982 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Knipe, Tony (editor)
187 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
Why Art? A Guide to Viewing Contemporary American Art
1978
Daniels, Florence
222 pages
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 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
The Golden Door Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976
1976
McCabe, Cynthia Jaffee
432 pages (color)
History of Collage An Anthology of Collage, Assemblage & Event Sructures
1975
Wolfram, Eddie
192 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
A Concise History of Modern Sculpture
1974
Read, Herbert
310 pages (color)
Contemporary Art Exploring It's Roots and Development
1973
Johnson, Charlotte Buel
96 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art
1973
Onn, Gerald (Translator)
0 pages
Not So Long Ago Art of the 1920s in Europe & America (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Heyer, George S Jr
95 pages (color)
Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery
1972
Neilson, Katharine B
343 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
Guggenheim Museum Collection Selections from/1900-1970
1970
Guggenheim Museum
437 pages (color)
Constructivist Tendencies The Collection of Mr and Mrs George Rickey (Exhibition catalog)
1970
U C Santa Barbara
135 pages
Twentieth Century Art From the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Lieberman, William
139 pages (color)
Plus by Minus, Today's Half Centu (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
88 pages
Minimal Art A Critical Anthology
1968
Battcock, Gregory (editor)
448 pages
Traveler's Guide to American Art
1968
Norman, Jane & Theodore
436 pages
Modern American Sculpture
1967
Ashton, Dore
130 pages (color)
Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques
1967
Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh
342 pages
Three Centuries of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Goodrich, Lloyd
150 pages (color)
American Art A Historical Survey
1966
Green, Samuel M
706 pages
Fifty Years of Modern Art 1916-19 (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Henning, Edward B
209 pages (color)
Break Up The Core of Modern Art
1965
Kuh, Katherine
136 pages (color)
Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Baur, John I H
91 pages (color)
Of Divers Arts
1962
Gabo, Naum
0 pages (color)
Geometric Abstraction in America (Exhibition catalog)
1962
Gordon, John
68 pages (color)
The Artist's Voice: Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists
1962
Kuh, Katherine
248 pages (color)
Art Now An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting
1960
Read, Herbert
326 pages (color)
The World of Abstract Art
1957
American Abstract Artists
167 pages (color)
200 Objects in the Baltimore Museum of Art
1955
Breeskin, Adelyn D
93 pages
The Naked Truth and Personal Vision The Length of the Artistic Road (Addison Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
1955
Hayes, Bartlett H Jr
112 pages (color)
Masters of Modern Art
1954
Barr, Alfred H Jr
239 pages (color)
Art of this Century 1910-1942
1942
Guggenheim, Peggy
156 pages
Art in Our Time Exhibition, Tenth Anniversary MoMA (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Museum of Modern Art
320 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index