Andrew Dasburg

Andrew Michael Dasburg (May 4, 1887 – August 13, 1979) was an American modernist painter and "one of America's leading early exponents of cubism".cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=OXtiQn6q0X4C&pg=PA115&dq=Andrew+Dasburg&as_brr=3&ei=azMoR-bQMabqoQKB0dj1DA&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=M_frfOyrWjmL48CJD1znpjwViVY
title=American Art Colonies, 1850-1930: A Historical Guide to America's Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
author=Steve Shipp
year=1996
publisher=Greenwood Press
isbn=0-313-29619-7]

Biography

He was born in 1887 in Paris. He emigrated from Germany to the United States with his widowed mother in 1892 to New York City. After a severe injury, he passed the time in convalescence by sketching.

In 1902 he joined the Art Students League of New York on a scholarship,cite web |url=http://www.andrewdasburg.com |title=Andrew Michael Dasburg |accessdate=2007-09-25 |quote=Andrew Dasburg was one of the leading Modernists in New Mexico for sixty years. A student of Robert Henri, an acquaintance of Matisse and a contributor to the famous 1913 Armory Show, his artistic credentials are sterling and his following devoted. |publisher= ] where he was taught by Kenyon Cox. [cite book
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title=The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten 1913-1946
editor=Edward Burns
year=1986
publisher=Columbia University Press
isbn=0231064306] At the League's summer school in Woodstock, New York, he studied landscapes under Birge Harrison.

In 1909, he went to Paris and fell in with the avant-garde movement. There he happened on some small Cubist paintings by Cézanne, after which he became an ardent promoter of the style.

His first exhibition was in 1911. Dasburg exhibited three oils and a sculpture at the "International Exhibition of Modern Art", better known the Armory Show, that opened in New York City's 69th Regiment Armory in 1913 and introduced astonished New Yorkers to modern art. [ [http://www.artnet.com/artist/4813/andrew-michael-dasburg.html Andrew Michael Dasburg] , artnet. Accessed October 30, 2007.] The three Cubist-oriented oils displayed at the 1913 show were considered "daringly experimental". In the years after the Armory Show Dasburg's works were exhibited along with those of other Modernists at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery. [cite web
url=http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!209473!0
title=Andrew Dasburg Smithsonian papers
publisher=Smithsonian Institution
accessdate=2007-10-31]

After moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1921, Dasburg integrated the boxy traditional construction styles in New Mexico into his Cubist art. [Zimmer, William. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E6D81430F934A15753C1A960958260 "Mexico, Both Sides of the Border, From the Century's First Half"] , "The New York Times", October 27, 1996. Accessed October 30, 2007. "Andrew Dasburg worked with the idea that New Mexican towns and villages, with their arrangements of box-like buildings, constituted a kind of Cubism in the flesh. His "Taos Houses (New Mexican Village)" is a good example of this."]

In both New York and Taos, he was part of the social milieu that included Georgia O'Keeffe and Gertrude Stein, and a close friend of Mabel Dodge Luhan. A painting named "The Absence of Mabel Dodge" was allegedly painted to inflame the jealousy of her then-lover, mutual friend John Reed (it was a pointed reminder of a peyote celebration in which the two had shared), and for four years Dasburg and Reed's other erstwhile lover Louise Bryant carried on an affair.cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=o2DB77ccf9sC&pg=PA97&dq=Andrew+Dasburg&as_brr=3&ei=azMoR-bQMabqoQKB0dj1DA&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=cyFLWkaCp0Q22VJdUbRNDQpA1mE#PPA97,M1
title=Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village, the American Bohemia, 1910-1960
author=Ross Wetzsteon
year=2002
publisher=Simon and Schuster
isbn=0684869969 The painting is now lost.] The elderly Dasburg appeared posthumously as himself in the movie about Reed and Bryant's love affair, "Reds", although he "curiously ... does not speak of his intimacy with either". [cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YSZeteMhP_UC&pg=PA194&dq=Andrew+Dasburg&as_brr=3&ei=Uz8oR6SRJJm4pgL_lJmGDQ&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=Py415Wg_I_TkqtC00iv90_ycAAo
title=Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies
author=Mark Christopher Carnes
year=1995
publisher=Holt Paperbacks
isbn=0805037608] He was also involved for some time with Ida Rauh, a co-founder of the Provincetown Players, and the two of them were friends with D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen, and helped Lawrence recover from a bout with tuberculosis that nearly got him refused entry to the U.S. at the border with Mexico. [cite book
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title=D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider
author=John Worthen
year=2007
publisher= Counterpoint Press
isbn=1582433550]

In 1936, he married poet Mary Channing Wister, the daughter of Owen Wister. [cite news
url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,745319,00.html
title=Dispatches
date=March 13 1933
publisher=TIME magazine
accessdate=2007-10-31
quote=Married. Mary Channing Wister, poetess daughter of Novelist Owen Wister; and Painter Andrew Michael Dasburg, 45, Guggenheim Fellow; in Philadelphia.]

Dasburg died in his home in Taos, New Mexico on August 13, 1979, at age 92. cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Andrew Dasburg, Cubist Painter, Dies. Said to Be Last Surviving Artist of the Armory Show of 1913. |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40913F83E5A12728DDDAD0994D0405B898BF1D3 |quote=Andrew Dasburg, a painter who was said to be the last survivor of the artists who contributed work to the Armory show of 1913, died yesterday in Taos, N.M. He was 92 years old. |publisher=New York Times |date= |accessdate=2007-09-25 ] Following his death, the Fine Arts Museum in Santa Fe held a 96-work retrospective exhibition funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts which traveled to four other Western states.cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=UzidA4ETRFEC&pg=PA219&dq=Andrew+Dasburg&as_brr=3&ei=azMoR-bQMabqoQKB0dj1DA&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=WcpIIogr2ynuoaWlLS8gRkcTAQI#PPA220,M1
title=Of Time and Change
author=Frank Waters
year=2000
publisher= MacAdam/Cage Publishing
isbn=1878448072] His works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Denver Art Museum, among others.

Awards and honors

* "Tulips", Second Prize, First Pan-American Exhibition of Oil Paintings at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1925) [cite web
url=http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mweb/about/american_history.asp
title=History of the American Art Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
publisher=Los Angeles County Museum of Art
accessdate=2007-10-31
quote=It turned out to be an important event for the art world of Los Angeles and also for the museum’s collection, to which were added not only the purchase prize paintings-William Wendt’s Where Nature’s God Hath Wrought, John Carroll’s Parthenope, Andrew Dasburg’s Tulips, Guy Pène du Bois’s Shops, and Diego Rivera’s Flower Day --but also Bernard Karfiol’s Seated Figure and Eugene Savage’s Recessional.]
* "Poppies", Third Prize, 16th International Exhibition of Art, Carnegie Institute of Technology (1927) [cite news
url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,736939,00.html
title=International Exhibition
date=October 24 1927
publisher=TIME magazine
accessdate=2007-10-31
quote=Third prize ($500) was given to Andrew Dasburg of Santa Fe. He had painted a table, on which a vase was full of poppy petals, heaped on the canvas like the bright blood of an immortal.]
* Guggenheim Fellowship (1932) [cite news
url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,743424,00.html
title=Guggenheim Fellowships
date=March 21 1932
publisher=TIME magazine
accessdate=2007-10-31]

ee also

*Synchromism

References

External links

* [http://www.andrewdasburg.com/ Official website]
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