A Russian-born painter and stage designer, Pavel Tchelitchew worked in many styles, changing several times and doing much experimentation. He was especially "known for his almost surrealist... Read full biography
A Russian-born painter and stage designer, Pavel Tchelitchew worked in many styles, changing several times and doing much experimentation. He was especially "known for his almost surrealist renderings of the human body without its skin, similar to anatomical studies." (Falk, 3263). He began as a... Read full biography
A Russian-born painter and stage designer, Pavel Tchelitchew worked in many styles, changing several times and doing much experimentation. He was especially "known for his almost surrealist renderings of the human body without its skin, similar to anatomical studies." (Falk, 3263). He began as a Cubist, and did modernist figure paintings in the style of Picasso and then moved on to Neo-Romanticism and Surrealism. He was born near Moscow on his family's estate and was studying in that city at... Read full biography
A Russian-born painter and stage designer, Pavel Tchelitchew worked in many styles, changing several times and doing much experimentation. He was especially "known for his almost surrealist renderings of the human body without its skin, similar to anatomical studies." (Falk, 3263). He began as a Cubist, and did modernist figure paintings in the style of Picasso and then moved on to Neo-Romanticism and Surrealism. He was born near Moscow on his family's estate and was studying in that city at the time of the 1917 Russian Revolution. He fled to Kiev and there enrolled in the Academy of Art, studying with Alexandra Exter, a pupil of Fernand Leger. Fleeing the Communists, Tchelitchew lived in Berlin, working as a stage designer, and then went... Read full biography
A Russian-born painter and stage designer, Pavel Tchelitchew worked in many styles, changing several times and doing much experimentation. He was especially "known for his almost surrealist renderings of the human body without its skin, similar to anatomical studies." (Falk, 3263). He began as a Cubist, and did modernist figure paintings in the style of Picasso and then moved on to Neo-Romanticism and Surrealism. He was born near Moscow on his family's estate and was studying in that city at the time of the 1917 Russian Revolution. He fled to Kiev and there enrolled in the Academy of Art, studying with Alexandra Exter, a pupil of Fernand Leger. Fleeing the Communists, Tchelitchew lived in Berlin, working as a stage designer, and then went to Paris, where he abandoned modernist painting for realistic landscapes and portraits.... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (66)
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Palm Beach Visual Arts
2016
Pollack, Deborah C.
200 pages (color)
Fifty Gifts for Fifty Years: Sheldon Museum of Art
2013
Veneciano, Jorge Daniel (Introduction); Sharon Kennedy, Gregory Nosan, Brandon Ruud
112 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
America Gone Modern: From the Twenties to the Sixties (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Spanierman Gallery
56 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Surrealist Art The Bergman Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Ades, Dawn
262 pages (color)
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism (4 Volumes)
1993
Greenberg, Clement; Dr. John O'Brian, Editor
622 pages
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Adams, Henry (others)
495 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Anecdotes of Modern Art From Rousseau to Warhol
1990
Hall, Donald/Pat C Wykes
377 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
American Works on Paper III (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Spanierman Gallery
150 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 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)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Art of the 1930s The Age of Anxiety
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
264 pages (color)
In the Mind's Eye Dada and Surrealism (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Neff, Ann R (editor)
240 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
The Fine Line Drawing with Silver in America (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Weber, Bruce
103 pages
Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Cummings, Paul
144 pages
Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe
95 pages
The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection
1984
Hunter, Sam
599 pages (color)
How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art
1983
Guilbaut, Serge
277 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
The Art of Healing, Medicine and Science in American Art (Birmingham Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Gerdts, William H
120 pages (color)
Tracking the Marvelous A Life in the New York Art World
1981
Myers, John Bernard
285 pages
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)
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Art of the Twenties (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Lieberman, William S
142 pages
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
Works on Paper 1900-1960 From Southern California Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Pomona College
132 pages (color)
Surrealism and American Art 1931-1947 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Wechsler, Jeffrey
116 pages (color)
American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
1976
Stebbins, Theodore E
464 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections
1974
Gidley, Mick
58 pages
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
An Invitation to See 125 Paintings from the MOMA
1973
Franc, Helen M
159 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
American Art at Harvard (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
188 pages
Not So Long Ago Art of the 1920s in Europe & America (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Heyer, George S Jr
95 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
The 1930's Painting & Sculpture in America (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Agee, William C
80 pages (color)
The Dance in Art
1968
Longstreet, Stephen (intro)
45 pages
The Artist and the Sportsman (The National Art Museum of Sport) (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Scott, Martha B.
95 pages (color)
200 Years of Watercolor Painting Centennial of American Watercolor Society (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Metropolitan Museum of Art
64 pages
American Painting in the Twentieth Century
1965
Geldzahler, Henry
236 pages
20th Century Master Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
104 pages
Prisma der Demokratie Ausdruck...der Malerei Amerikas (Exhibition catalog)
1961
Gaertner, Johannes A
84 pages
Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956 (Exhibition catalog)
1957
Brooklyn Museum
72 pages
American Painting Today
1956
Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed)
127 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
Masters of Modern Art
1954
Barr, Alfred H Jr
239 pages (color)
History of Modern Painting
1951
Bazin, Germain/A Gloeckner
391 pages (color)
100 American Painters of the 20th Century
1950
Metropolitan Museum
132 pages (color)
Milestones of American Painting in Our Century
1949
Wight, Frederick
135 pages (color)
The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1944
The Art Institute of Chicago
22 pages
20th Century Portraits (Exhibition catalog)
1942
Wheeler, Monroe
148 pages (color)
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