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Walter F Isaacs

Walter F. Isaacs (1886 - 1964) was active/lived in Washington, Illinois.  Walter Isaacs is known for Abstract figure and portrait painting, teaching.

"Reacting to Modernism: Walter F. Isaacs," by Donald Pittenger, November 2, 2011. Published online on the blog Art Contrarian.

My old stomping ground, the School of Art at the University of Washington, held an exhibit featuring three former faculty members including its first chairman Walter F. Isaacs (1886-1964). I went to see it because two of the artists (Ray Hill, 1891-1980 and Boyer Gonzales, Jr., 1909-1987) were there when I was. But I was most anxious to see Isaacs' work because he was active during a period that interests me greatly: 1920-1945.

Why those years? Because they were the time following the surge of art movements (Cubism, Fauves, Futurism, Blaue Reiter, etc., etc.) in the years just before the Great War. Following the war many avant-garde artists experienced a what-do-we-do-next? realization as the number of new movements fell off drastically. Meanwhile, artists trained traditionally had to come to terms with modernism because the art market seemed to b   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3268 characters.]  Artist bio

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