"Reacting to Modernism: Walter F. Isaacs," by Donald Pittenger, November 2, 2011. Published online on the blog Art Contrarian. My old stomping ground, the School of Art at the University of... Read full biography
"Reacting to Modernism: Walter F. Isaacs," by Donald Pittenger, November 2, 2011. Published online on the blog Art Contrarian. My old stomping ground, the School of Art at the University of Washington, held an exhibit featuring three former faculty members including its first chairman Walter F.... Read full biography
"Reacting to Modernism: Walter F. Isaacs," by Donald Pittenger, November 2, 2011. Published online on the blog Art Contrarian. My old stomping ground, the School of Art at the University of Washington, held an exhibit featuring three former faculty members including its first chairman Walter F. Isaacs (1886-1964). I went to see it because two of the artists (Ray Hill, 1891-1980 and Boyer Gonzales, Jr., 1909-1987) were there when I was. But I was most anxious to see Isaacs' work because he was... Read full biography
"Reacting to Modernism: Walter F. Isaacs," by Donald Pittenger, November 2, 2011. Published online on the blog Art Contrarian. My old stomping ground, the School of Art at the University of Washington, held an exhibit featuring three former faculty members including its first chairman Walter F. Isaacs (1886-1964). I went to see it because two of the artists (Ray Hill, 1891-1980 and Boyer Gonzales, Jr., 1909-1987) were there when I was. But I was most anxious to see Isaacs' work because he was active during a period that interests me greatly: 1920-1945. Why those years? Because they were the time following the surge of art movements (Cubism, Fauves, Futurism, Blaue Reiter, etc., etc.) in the years just before the Great War. Following the... Read full biography
"Reacting to Modernism: Walter F. Isaacs," by Donald Pittenger, November 2, 2011. Published online on the blog Art Contrarian. My old stomping ground, the School of Art at the University of Washington, held an exhibit featuring three former faculty members including its first chairman Walter F. Isaacs (1886-1964). I went to see it because two of the artists (Ray Hill, 1891-1980 and Boyer Gonzales, Jr., 1909-1987) were there when I was. But I was most anxious to see Isaacs' work because he was active during a period that interests me greatly: 1920-1945. Why those years? Because they were the time following the surge of art movements (Cubism, Fauves, Futurism, Blaue Reiter, etc., etc.) in the years just before the Great War. Following the war many avant-garde artists experienced a what-do-we-do-next? realization as the number of new movements fell off drastically. Meanwhile,... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (10)
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Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts & Crafts to Modern Architecture
2007
Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl
384 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
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
Sketchbook, A Memoir of the 30's and the Northwest School
1984
Cumming, William
239 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
First National Exhibition of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1936
Breckinridge, Mrs. (essay)
32 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index