Sketches from an Artist's Life by Barry Faukner

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“Poor Dust Cover with book in Good Condition. Some markings on the interior with bookplate.”
Type
Biography
Special Attributes
1st Edition
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Subjects
Art & Culture
ISBN
9781586483029
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Public Affairs
ISBN-10
1586483021
ISBN-13
9781586483029
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57059443

Product Key Features

Book Title
Girl with the Gallery : Edith Gregor Halpert and the Making of the Modern Art Market
Number of Pages
504 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Travel, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Lindsay Pollock
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
27.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-023266
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
709.2 B
Synopsis
In an era when American artists didn't count and women were expected to stay home, Edith Gregor Halpert burst onto the fledgling New York gallery scene, defying all cultural and societal rules. In 1926, Halpert, just twenty-six years old, opened one of the first art galleries in Greenwich Village and set about turning the art world upside down. Her Downtown Gallery, which she ran for forty-four years, laid the groundwork for the art market's modern era, and its aggressive promotion and sales tactics. Halpert cultivated the most illustrious art collectors of the day, invented the market for folk art, and pushed the first group of American artists working in a modern vernacular into the history books, including Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ben Shahn, and Arthur Dove. Despite all this, Edith Halpert herself has been lost to history. Until now. In, How one provocative, trail-blazing--and long-forgotten-- dealer, Edith Halpert, transformed the business of art dealing and shaped the legacy of modern American art, In an era when American artists didn't count and women were expected to stay home, Edith Gregor Halpert burst onto the fledgling New York gallery scene, defying all cultural and societal rules. In 1926, Halpert, just 26 years old, opened one of the first art galleries in Greenwich Village and set about turning the art world upside down., In an era when American artists didn't count and women were expected to stay home, Edith Gregor Halpert burst onto the fledgling New York gallery scene, defying all cultural and societal rules. In 1926, Halpert, just twenty-six years old, opened one of the first art galleries in Greenwich Village and set about turning the art world upside down. Her Downtown Gallery, which she ran for forty-four years, laid the groundwork for the art market's modern era, and its aggressive promotion and sales tactics. Halpert cultivated the most illustrious art collectors of the day, invented the market for folk art, and pushed the first group of American artists working in a modern vernacular into the history books, including Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ben Shahn, and Arthur Dove. Despite all this, Edith Halpert herself has been lost to history. Until now. In The Girl with the Gallery , journalist Lindsay Pollock brings Halpert and her era vividly back to life, tracing the story of how this remarkable woman, who started out a penniless Jewish immigrant, made it her mission to fight for American art and artists. Illlustrated with eight pages of full color photographs, this is biography at its finest, an unforgettable story of class, money, vanity, jealousy, and tragic loss.
LC Classification Number
N8660.H28P65 2006

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