Sheldon Museum of Art

 

Date of this Version

1974

Citation

Sheldon Art Gallery, University of Nebraska - Lincoln UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-Omaha: April 12 - May 2, 1974 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-Lincoln: May 14 - June 16, 1974

Comments

Copyright 1974 Judith K. Van Wagner All rights reserved.

Abstract

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction III

Acknowledgments V

Part I. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Prologue ...............1

European Beginnings of Abstraction ............... 1

Constructivism, The Bauhaus 1 1 and DeStijl 1915-25...............2

Development of American Abstraction 1913-45...............4

Recent American Abstract Developments, from 1945............... 5

Part II. SPECIFIC ARTISTS AND THEIR WORK

Albert Swinden ...............6

Ralston Crawford ...............7

Jean Xceron ............... 8

Fritz Glarner ............... 9

Charmion Von Wiegand ...............11

Ilya Bolotowsky...............11

Burgoyne Diller ...............12

Leon Polk Smith ...............13

Alice Trumbull Mason ............... 14

Irene Rice Pereira ............... 15

Charles Shaw ...............16

Charles Biederman ...............16

Victor Pasmore ...............17

Josef Albers...............18

John McLaughlin...............21

Frederick Hammersley ...............22

Part III. CONCLUSION ...............23

Footnotes...............25

Biographies ............... 29

List of Illustrations...............43

Selected Bibliography...............65

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