Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080
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1890 Isariy Likosouras, Greece - 1967. Known for: Abstract, non-objective painting, collage, mixed-media.
A modernist artist who emigrated to America from Greece in 1904, when he was fourteen years old, Jean Xceron is described as having a reputation as an artist that has mysteriously fallen into... Read full biography
A modernist artist who emigrated to America from Greece in 1904, when he was fourteen years old, Jean Xceron is described as having a reputation as an artist that has mysteriously fallen into obscurity---especially since he was reportedly quite prominent during his lifetime. However, a partial... Read full biography
A modernist artist who emigrated to America from Greece in 1904, when he was fourteen years old, Jean Xceron is described as having a reputation as an artist that has mysteriously fallen into obscurity---especially since he was reportedly quite prominent during his lifetime. However, a partial explanation of that omission is the fact that many of his papers and early records have been lost. He was a painter of biomorphic abstractions and did collages, which were influenced by Dadaism. Xceron... Read full biography
A modernist artist who emigrated to America from Greece in 1904, when he was fourteen years old, Jean Xceron is described as having a reputation as an artist that has mysteriously fallen into obscurity---especially since he was reportedly quite prominent during his lifetime. However, a partial explanation of that omission is the fact that many of his papers and early records have been lost. He was a painter of biomorphic abstractions and did collages, which were influenced by Dadaism. Xceron was active in New York City when modernism was gaining influence. Of him during this period, it was written that his artistic role was "a vital link between what is commonly termed as the first-generation (the Stieglitz group, the Synchromists, etc.)... Read full biography
A modernist artist who emigrated to America from Greece in 1904, when he was fourteen years old, Jean Xceron is described as having a reputation as an artist that has mysteriously fallen into obscurity---especially since he was reportedly quite prominent during his lifetime. However, a partial explanation of that omission is the fact that many of his papers and early records have been lost. He was a painter of biomorphic abstractions and did collages, which were influenced by Dadaism. Xceron was active in New York City when modernism was gaining influence. Of him during this period, it was written that his artistic role was "a vital link between what is commonly termed as the first-generation (the Stieglitz group, the Synchromists, etc.) and second-generation, the American Abstract Artists, the Transcendental Painting Group . " (Vrachopoulos)&nbs... Read full biography
Jean (Yiannis Xirocostas) Xceron - Artist Info
About Jean (Yiannis Xirocostas) Xceron: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (8)
All MuseumsMichele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004Neuberger Museum of Art
Suny, Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577-1400Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10128The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102University of New Mexico Art Museum (UNMAM)
203 Cornell Dr SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014