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Alice Mattern

Alice Louise Mattern (1909 - 1945) was active/lived in New York.  Alice Mattern is known for Non-objective, lyrical painting, architectural subjects.

Alice Mattern is associated with the group of Non-Objective* artists, a group whose focus was geometric forms, cosmic, musical and metaphysical motifs and conceptual art* for the future.

Mattern was born in New York City and grew up in LaSalle, Illinois. She studied art at Bradley College in Peoria and returned to New York City in 1938. There she studied with Rudolf Bauer, a master of Non-Objective painting. Mattern painted exclusively in a Non-Objective style after 1939.

She died at age thirty-seven and there are only a handful of known works. Fifty-nine of her works were exhibited at The Museum of Non-Objective Painting, the precursor to the Guggenheim, in 1945 as part of a memorial exhibition.

In her retrospective exhibition pamphlet Hilla Rebay wrote: “Alice Mattern was a great artist; she developed in her work increasing simplicity in the rhythmic space organization, as well as in the form problems of modern development. This wonderful balance represents a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1383 characters.]  Artist bio

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