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Alfred Maurer

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Alfred Henry Maurer (1868 - 1932) was active/lived in New York / France.  Alfred Maurer is known for Paintings-figure, still life, landscape.

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 Called the first American modernist painter, Alfred Maurer began as a traditionalist and then explored many styles including Impressionism, Tonalism, Fauvism and Cubism. He developed a rich, brushy, tonal style, influenced by Frans Hals and Diego Velasquez, as well as William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent and James Whistler. In 1901, his painting titled "An Arrangement," done in the rich, impressionist, tonal style of Whistler won first prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition. In the 1920s, he focused on still life and figural pieces, many of them Cubist in style.

He was born in New York City, the son of Louis Maurer who was a commercial artist for Currier & Ives. Young Alfred learned commercial art from working in the same lithographic business as his father. In 1884, he enrolled in the National Academy of Design and in 1897, left for Paris where he stayed until 1914 and studied briefly at the Academie Julian.

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Facts about Alfred Maurer

   Publications  Book References:  166
Magazine References:  17

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17 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Alfred Maurer
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review What Modern Looked Like October 2005 Severns, Martha R Yes
The Magazine Antiques Current and Coming March 2004 Ledes, Allison Eckardt Yes
American Art Review Alfred H Maurer Reconsidered February 2004 Epstein, Stacey Yes
Art & Antiques Museum Scene September 2003 Editor, Art & Antiques Yes
Art & Antiques Critics = Style - Setters? February 2003 Kramer, Hilton Yes
Art & Auction Datebook January 2003 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
American Art Review Collection of John and Dolores Beck December 2000 Leeds, Valerie Ann Yes
Art & Auction Marketplace February 2000 Editors Yes
Art & Auction Around the Block: Notes April 1999 Editors No
The Magazine Antiques Margaret/Raymond Horotitz Collectio January 1999 Cikovsky, Nicolai Jr. Yes
Art & Auction Previews September 1998 Editors Yes
ARTnews Reviews August 1997 Editors, ARTnews Yes
American Art Review To Be Modern August 1996 Yount,Sylvia Yes
Art & Auction April 1910 April 1996 Schonfeld, Bob Yes
Architectural Digest Art: American Cubist Painting December 1995 Berman, Avis Yes
Art & Antiques The Market June 1995 Knapp, Rebecca Yes
American Art Review Things on the Table June 1994 AR editors Yes
166 Book References for Alfred Maurer
Year Author Title Pages Color
2010 Stavitsky, Gail; Katherine Rothkopf Cezanne and American Modernism
(Exhibition catalog)		 372 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Bullaudy, Vivian (Essay) Celebrating 25 Years Hollis Taggart Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Reis, Mary Clare; Lisa N. Peters et all Fine American Art from 1845 to 1960 (Spanierman Gallery, LLC
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
2003 Deeds, Daphne Anderson Alfred Maurer: The First American Modern
(Exhibition catalog)		 92 Yes
2001 Cauman, John (Essay); Stacey B. Epstein (Intro) Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art, 1909-1936 Hollis Taggart Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 Yes
2000 Florida Museum of Fine Arts An American Palette: Works from Collection of John/Dolores Beck 0 No
2000 Greer, Gina; Andrea Smith American Paintings: 1860-1940 0 No
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
1999 Epstein, Stacey (essay/curator Alfred H Maurer: Aestheticism to Modernism (Hollis Taggart Galleries, Exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 157 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1997 Agee, William C Modern American Painting 1910-194 Toward A New Perspective
(Exhibition catalog)		 24 No
1997 Gerdts, William H; Hollis Taggart The American Fauves: The Color of Modernism
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1997 Hughes, Robert American Visions The Epic History of Art in America 635 Yes
1997 Phillips, Stephen Bennett Twentieth Century Still Life Paintings from Phillips Collection 120 Yes
1996 Addison Gallery Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 512 Yes
1996 Burns, Sarah Inventing the Modern Artist Art and Culture in Gilded Age America 380 No
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1996 Yount, Sylvia/Elizabeth Johns To Be Modern American Encounters with Cezanne and Company
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1995 Heller, Steven/Seymour Chwast Jackets Required An Illustrated History of Book Jacket Design 1920-1950 144 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 Weinberg, H Barbara (others) American Impressionism and Realis The Painting of Modern Life 1885-1915
(Exhibition catalog)		 400 Yes
1993 Greenberg, Clement; Dr. John O'Brian, Editor Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism (4 Volumes) 622 No
1992 Lublin, Mary American Selections 1850-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 163 Yes
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1991 Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County 510 Yes
1991 Gerdts, William (Essay); George Neubert, (Editor) American Impressionism from the Sheldon Memorial Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 79 Yes
1990 Eldredge, Charles C American Originals Selections from Reynolda House Museum 135 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons 430 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro) American Painting 319 Yes
1990 Gustafson, Donna (others) Art What Thou Eat Images of Food in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 191 Yes
1990 Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University
(Exhibition catalog)		 196 Yes
1990 Spanierman Gallery The Spencer Collection of American Art/An Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1989 Fahlman, Betsy American Modernism 80 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1988 Birmingham Museum of Art The Expressionist Landscape North American Modernist Painting 1920-1947
(Exhibition catalog)		 216 Yes
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Ward, Meredith (essay) Adventure and Inspiration American Artists in Other Lands
(Exhibition catalog)		 172 Yes
1988 Wooden, Howard E Collected Essays on 101 Art Works From the Permanent Collection, Wichita Art Musem 212 No
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Deeds, Daphne Anderson Arizona Collects Twentieth Century Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1986 Morrin, Peter (others) The Advent of Modernism Post-Impressionism...1900-1918
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Rose Art Museum Rose Art Museum Selected 20th Century Paintings 147 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Huneker, James G/Arnold Schwab Americans in the Arts 1890-1920 672 No
1985 Jones, Caroline Modern Art at Harvard Formation of the 19th & 20th Cen Collections 144 Yes
1985 Pisano, Ronald G Long Island Landscape Painting 1820-1920 (Volume 1) 167 Yes
1985 Terenzio, Stephanie Alfred H Maurer Watercolors
(Exhibition catalog)		 16 No
1985 Wooden, Howard E American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
(Exhibition catalog)		 151 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators) American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum 88 Yes
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 600 No
1984 Norton, Thomas E 100 Years of Collecting in America The Story of Sotheby Park Bernet 240 Yes
1983 Brown, Milton W 100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C 240 Yes
1983 Smith Kramer Art Connections American Works on Paper 100 Years of American Art History
(Exhibition catalog)		 113 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 301 Yes
1981 Davidson, Abraham A Early American Modernist Painting 1910-1935 324 Yes
1981 Gerdts, William H Painters of the Humble Truth American Still Life 1801-1939 292 Yes
1981 Mead, Katherine Harper (Editor) The Preston Morton Collection of American Art (Santa Barbara Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Pope, Annemarie H Lawrence H Bloedel Collection Loan Exhibition/Whitney/Williams College
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1981 Ritchie, Margaret Denver Art Museum Major Works in the Collection 304 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Johnson, Una E American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists 266 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Maurice Sternberg, Galleries The American Perspective
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1979 Perlman, Bennard B The Immortal Eight American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show 224 Yes
1979 Phillips, Laughlin and Duncan The Phillips Collection In the Making 1920-1930 96 Yes
1979 Taylor, Joshua C The Fine Arts in America 264 No
1978 Flint Institute of Arts Art of the Twenties American Painting at the Crossroads
(Exhibition catalog)		 70 Yes
1978 Hirschl & Adler Galleries The Eye of Stieglitz 84 Yes
1978 Levin, Gail Synchromism American Color Abstraction 1910-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Brown, Milton W The Modern Spirit American Painting 1908-1935
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 Yes
1977 Cloudman, Ruth H The Chosen Object European and American Still Life
(Exhibition catalog)		 66 No
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1977 Hills, Patricia Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 194 Yes
1977 Homer, William Innes Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde 335 No
1977 Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College
(Exhibition catalog)		 252 Yes
1976 Ballinger, James K American Painting 1900 to 1932 From the Whitney Museum of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1975 Bullard, E John A Panorama of American Painting The John J McDonough Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 119 Yes
1975 Phillips, Laughlin (Introduction) American Art from the Phillips Collection A Selection of Paintings, 1900-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 No
1975 Wasserman, Emily The American Scene: Early Twentieth Century (Lamplight Collection of American Art) 91 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures 80 No
1974 Gerdts, William H The Great American Nude A History in Art 224 Yes
1974 Van Devanter, Ann, et al American Self Portraits 1670-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 245 Yes
1974 Young, Mahonri Sharp Early American Moderns Painters of the Stieglitz Group 159 Yes
1973 Bennett, Ian A History of American Painting 240 Yes
1973 Carnegie Institute Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art 196 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Howat, John/Dianne Pilgrim American Impressionist and Realis Paintings & Drawings/Collection R Horowitz
(Exhibition catalog)		 167 Yes
1973 Kramer, Hilton The Age of the Avant-Garde An Art Chronicle 1956-1972 617 No
1973 Pisano, Ronald J Students of William Merritt Chase
(Exhibition catalog)		 44 No
1973 Reich, Sheldon/Joshua Taylor Alfred H Maurer
(Exhibition catalog)		 167 Yes
1973 Tomasini, Wallace (others) Paintings/Midwestern University Collections Seventeenth-Twentieth Centuries 179 Yes
1973 Wilmerding, John The Genius of American Painting 352 Yes
1972 Hunter, Sam American Art of the 20th Century 487 Yes
1972 Karpel, Bernard/Walt Kuhn The Armory Show International Exhibition of Art 1913
(Exhibition catalog)		 286 No
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Gerdts, William; Russell Burke American Still Life Painting 264 Yes
1971 Graham, F Lanier Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor 111 Yes
1971 Staley, Allen/Theodore Reff From Realism to Symbolism Whistler and His World
(Exhibition catalog)		 211 Yes
1970 Brown, Milton W American Painting From the Armory Show to the Depression 244 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1969 Hormats, Bess Duncan Phillips Retrospective for a Critic
(Exhibition catalog)		 62 No
1969 Janis, Sidney Abstract & Surrealist Art in America 146 No
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Agee, William C The 1930's Painting & Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1968 Norman, Jane & Theodore Traveler's Guide to American Art 436 No
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1968 Rose, Barbara Readings in American Art Since 1900 A Documentary Survey 270 No
1967 Hirschl & Adler Galleries American Paintings for Public and Private Collections 52 Yes
1967 New York Univ Art Collection The New York Painter
(Exhibition catalog)		 107 No
1967 North Carolina Museum of Art North Carolina Collects (loan exhibition N Carolina owned)
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 No
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1967 U of New Mexico Art Museum Cubism, Its Impact in the USA 1910-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1965 Breeskin, Adelyn D Roots of Abstract Art in America, 1910-1930 (Smithsonian Institution)
(Exhibition catalog)		 84 Yes
1965 Geldzahler, Henry American Painting in the Twentieth Century 236 No
1964 Indiana University Museum American Painting 1910 to 1960 50th Anniversary Exhibition College Unions
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1963 Brown, Milton W The Story of the Armory Show
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1963 Freedgood, Lillian Great Artists of America 254 Yes
1963 Goodrich, Lloyd Pioneers of Modern Art in America Decade of the Armory Show, 1910-1920 94 Yes
1963 Hunter, Sam American Modernism/The First Wave
(Exhibition catalog)		 28 No
1963 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Art Collections/Univ of Nebraska A Selection of Works/Inauguration of Sheldon Memorial
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1963 Vigtel, Gudmund The New Tradition Modern Americans Before 1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1963 Whitney Museum The Decade of the Armory Show New Directions in American Art 1910-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 79 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1960 Rasmusen, Henry Printmaking with Monotype 184 No
1957 Baur, John I H New Art in America 279 No
1957 Brooklyn Museum Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1957 Trovato, Joseph, (Foreward); William C. Murray (Introduction) Portraiture: The 19th and 20th Centuries (Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 36 No
1955 Hayes, Bartlett H Jr The Naked Truth and Personal Vision The Length of the Artistic Road (Addison Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1951 Hess, Thomas B Abstract Painting Background and American Phase 164 Yes
1951 McCausland, Elizabeth A H Maurer 287 No
1949 Swenson, Eleanor De Gustibus A Century of Taste and Criticism
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1946 Whitney Museum Pioneers of Modern Art in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1942 Mellquist, Jerome The Emergence of an American Art 421 No
1942 Wheeler, Monroe 20th Century Portraits
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1935 De Young Memorial Museum Exhibition of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1931 Barker, Virgil A Critical Introduction to American Painting 52 No
1916 Brinton, Christian Impressions of the Art at the Panama Pacific Exposition
(Exhibition catalog)		 203 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 281 No
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