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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
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1912 Slovakia - 1992 New York City. Known for: Indian symbolic-zoomorph, non ob.
Heavily influenced by modernists Klee and Kandinsky, he was a pioneering American abstractionist who, in the 1940s, was a member of the "Indian Space Painters," explorers of Indian mythology and... Read full biography
Heavily influenced by modernists Klee and Kandinsky, he was a pioneering American abstractionist who, in the 1940s, was a member of the "Indian Space Painters," explorers of Indian mythology and imagery through abstraction. Much of his work is totally abstract with puzzle-like compositions and wild... Read full biography
Heavily influenced by modernists Klee and Kandinsky, he was a pioneering American abstractionist who, in the 1940s, was a member of the "Indian Space Painters," explorers of Indian mythology and imagery through abstraction. Much of his work is totally abstract with puzzle-like compositions and wild animation. He was largely unappreciated in his lifetime. He was born Stephen Brosnatch in a coal-mining village in Slovakia and at age two came to live near the coalfields of Pennsylvania with his... Read full biography
Heavily influenced by modernists Klee and Kandinsky, he was a pioneering American abstractionist who, in the 1940s, was a member of the "Indian Space Painters," explorers of Indian mythology and imagery through abstraction. Much of his work is totally abstract with puzzle-like compositions and wild animation. He was largely unappreciated in his lifetime. He was born Stephen Brosnatch in a coal-mining village in Slovakia and at age two came to live near the coalfields of Pennsylvania with his parents. For a period as a young man he worked as a coal miner and claimed he heard the voice of an oracle in the coal mines imploring him to become an artist. In 1932, he went to New York and enrolled in the Art Student's League, studying with Vaclav... Read full biography
Heavily influenced by modernists Klee and Kandinsky, he was a pioneering American abstractionist who, in the 1940s, was a member of the "Indian Space Painters," explorers of Indian mythology and imagery through abstraction. Much of his work is totally abstract with puzzle-like compositions and wild animation. He was largely unappreciated in his lifetime. He was born Stephen Brosnatch in a coal-mining village in Slovakia and at age two came to live near the coalfields of Pennsylvania with his parents. For a period as a young man he worked as a coal miner and claimed he heard the voice of an oracle in the coal mines imploring him to become an artist. In 1932, he went to New York and enrolled in the Art Student's League, studying with Vaclav Vytlacil and George Grosz and then attended Hans Hoffman's Abstract Expressionist School on West 8th Street. He developed a strong enthus... Read full biography
Steve Wheeler - Artist Info
About Steve Wheeler: Books
Books & Publications (12)
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesSix Indian Space Artists (David Findlay Jr. Gallery)
2003
(Exhibition catalog)Hollister, Barbara17 pages (color)Los Angeles Art Show Fine Art Dealers Association Presents
2000
(Exhibition catalog)Fine Art Dealers Association66 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesThe Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999Steiner, Raymond J0 pagesSteve Wheeler 1912-1992 Artist and Visionary (Richard York Gallery)
1999
(Exhibition catalog)Ward, Meredith E. (essay)20 pages (color)Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde
1995Rushing, W Jackson250 pages (color)The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)1,117 pagesAnnual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)538 pagesWhitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974Baur, John I H235 pages (color)The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings
1944
(Exhibition catalog)The Art Institute of Chicago22 pages