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Guy Wiggins, Snow on Wall Street

Guy Wiggins, Snow on Wall Street

John Marin, Related to St Pauls

John Marin, Related to St Pauls

Last Tuesday evening I attended the first in a series of lectures at our library about American Modern Art.  (Read that here.)  Last night was the second lecture in the series.  The subject was “The Modern Metropolis” and the focus was New York City.  This very interesting series is an eye-opening for those of us attending about the drastic differences that emerged in the art world in the early 1900′.  It’s fascinating to see the same subject matter depicted by different artists of the same time.  Here is a great example:  one by Guy Wiggins  and the other by John Marin’s during the same time period and basically the same subject matter.  What a different view!  Art was taking a distinct turn!

 

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Steerage, Alfred Stieflitz

Steerage, Alfred Stieflitz

Last night at Samuel’s Public Library in Front Royal I attended the first of several lectures on American Modernism by Ben Glenn II, an art historian and writer.  This is a four-part series and last night he discussed 1900-1917 and spoke about many artists of that time period including John Marin, Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz.

We spent time looking at many pieces of art of that time period and he discussed the importance of Alfred Stieglitz and the gallery (291) that he helped establish.  It’s a fascinating time.  Read more about Stieglitz here.  

The next lecture is Tuesday, March 17th at 6:30.  Check out the series here.  

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