O'Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach : women modernists in New York / Ellen E. Roberts with the assistance of Samantha Niederman ; Edited by Gregory Nosan
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, February 18-May 16, 2016 and at the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, June 23-September 18, 2016.
Contents:
Introduction: "The New Woman Emerging": Gender and Modernism in Early Twentieth-Century New York -- Marguerite Zorach: "An Earnest Striving for Expression of the Inner Spirit of Things" -- Florine Stettheimer: "What I Should Like is to Paint This Thing" -- Helen Torr: "I Have the Feeling I Can Paint Now" -- Georgia O'Keeffe: "I Want to Paint in Terms of My Own Thinking" -- Conclusion: "Femininity Can Mean...Many Things": The Question of Gender and Modernism" -- Checklist of the Exhibition -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary:
"This exhibition will look at the art and careers of modernists Marguerite Zorach, Florine Stettheimer, Helen Torr, and Georgia O'Keeffe together for the first time. These women all sought to be recognized as artists rather than women artists, but their identity as women shaped the circumstances under which they worked, the forms their art took, and the way their pictures were interpreted. By exploring these effects, this exhibition will reveal the influence of gender on American modernism." Norton Museum of Art
