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Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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Louise Berliawsky Nevelson (1899 - 1988) was active/lived in New York / Russian Federation.  Louise Nevelson is known for Cubist monchromatic wood assemblage.

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 Creator of wood assemblages made from found objects and parts of furniture doused in black paint, Louise Nevelson became the darling of the New York art world, especially during the last three decades of her life when her success was assured.  She cultivated an artistic image, was thin and draped clothes haphazardly on her figure, smoked small cigars, and wore exceedingly long, fake eyelashes.

She was born Louise Berliawsky in Kiev, Russia, and at age five, moved with her family to Rockland, Maine where her father ran a lumber yard.  In a town that was mostly Protestant, middle class, white people, she felt out of place as a Jew and an immigrant.  In 1920, she moved to New York, studied at the Art Students League with Kenneth Hayes Miller, and married Charles Nevelson, whose "WASP" family she regarded as terribly stuffy.  They had a son, and when he was nine years old, she went to Munich to study, separating from her husband and leaving her son f   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12130 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

   Publications  Book References:  181
Magazine References:  30

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30 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews Bubbling Over in Talent September 2004 Baker, Kenneth Yes
Art & Auction Catastrophic Coverage August 2004 Gordon, Margery No
Art & Antiques Gallery Watch June 2004 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
Art-Talk "Salud to Russia!", "Zdorovye!" to June 2004 Soderberg, Paul Yes
American Artist A Permanent Record of What Has Been May 2004 Koob, Pamela N Yes
American Art Review Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculptu April 2004 Becherer, Joseph Antenucci Yes
ARTnews Aspen: A Cutting-Edge Museum and January 2004 Stunda, Hilary Yes
Art & Antiques Museum Scene November 2003 Editor, Art & Antiques Yes
ARTnews Reviews September 2003 Editor, ARTnews Yes
Art-Talk Summer Destinations II August 2003 Jarvis, John Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk June 2003 Editor, ARTtalk Yes
Art & Auction Principals of Design; Geoffrey Brad May 2003 Mason, Brook S Yes
Art & Antiques 100 Top Treasures November 2002 Masello, Page, Goldstein Yes
Art & Auction Around the Block October 2002 Tully, Judd Yes
ARTnews Changing Pace March 2002 Sheets, Hilarie M No
ARTnews ARTtalk February 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art-Talk Exhibition January 2002 Editor, Art-Talk No
Art & Auction Around the Block: Trade Center December 2001 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
The Magazine Antiques Twentieth-Century Paintings and Scu November 2001 Junker, Patricia No
ARTnews Double Feature November 2000 Rowlands, Penelope Yes
American Art Review The Farnsworth Art Museum June 2000 Gerdts, William (essays) etc. Yes
American Art Review Portland Museum of Art June 2000 Levesque, Kristen Yes
Art & Antiques Wrapped in High Art December 1999 Wilson, Susannah M. Yes
ARTnews Reviews June 1997 Editors, Artnews Yes
American Art Review American Art 1940-1965 December 1996 Venn, Beth Yes
ARTnews art market November 1995 Editor, Art News Yes
American Art Review Announcements/October & November October 1994 AR editors Yes
American Art Review Louise Nevelson October 1994 McAvoy, Suzette Lane Yes
Art Times Focus on: Louise Nevelson, Neuberge August 1994 Steiner, Raymond J No
American Art Review Louise Nevelson June 1994 AR editors Yes
181 Book References for Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Year Author Title Pages Color
2020 L'Enfant, Julie Hazel Belvo: A Matriarch of Art 256 Yes
2007 Rapaport, Brooke Kamin The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend 0 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro) Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 246 Yes
2003 Herskovic, Marika (editor) American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey 372 Yes
2002 Komanecky, Michael K. (editor) Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights 352 Yes
2000 Skold, Stacey (compiler) Art Enterprises: Selections from the Collection 195 Yes
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Lipman, Peter; G Wertkin The Eye of the Collector: Works from Lipman Collection 64 Yes
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1997 Hughes, Robert American Visions The Epic History of Art in America 635 Yes
1997 Lucie-Smith, Edward Visual Arts in the 20th Century 400 Yes
1997 Martin, Elizabeth; Vivian Meyer Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists 176 Yes
1997 The Dayton Art Institute American Art From the Dicke Collection 264 Yes
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Demetrion, James T (Introduction) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art 166 Yes
1996 Wood, James N/T Edelstein The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture 160 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1995 Janson, H W; Dora Jane Janson History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts From the Dawn of History to the Present Day 960 Yes
1994 Bailey, Brooke The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists 207 No
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1993 Kostelanetz, Richard Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes 246 No
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1993 Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors) The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection 414 Yes
1992 Rupp, James M. Art in Seattle's Public Places: An Illustrated Guide 320 No
1992 Seitz, William C Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970 250 Yes
1991 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook (of the Collection) 161 No
1991 Hoffman, Katherine Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945 400 Yes
1991 Kleeblatt, Norman L and Susan Chevlowe (Editors) Painting a Place in America Jewish Artists in New York 1900-1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 208 Yes
1991 University Gallery-Delaware Brandywine Valley to the Bay Art from Private Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 161 Yes
1991 Wexner Center, Ohio State U Breakthroughs Avant-Garde Artists in Europe & America 1950-1990 310 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Chadwick, Whitney Women, Art, and Society 384 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 Lisle, Laurie Louise Nevelson-A Passionate Life 366 No
1990 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions 638 No
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Greenwood, Dougles McCreary Art in Embasies Twenty-Five Years at the State Department 63 Yes
1989 La Cour, Donna Ward Artists in Quotation Dictionary of Creative Thoughts of Painters etc 196 No
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1989 Stein, Donna Contemporary Illustrated Books Word and Image, 1967-1988
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1987 Heller, Nancy Women Artists An Illustrated History 224 Yes
1987 Krane, Susan Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972 379 Yes
1987 Mecklenburg, Virginia Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1987 Sandler, Irving The Empire State Collection Art for the Public 214 Yes
1987 Schultz, Douglas (Intro) 125 Masterpieces: From the Collection of Albright-Knox 264 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Hunter, Sam An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 269 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Marshall, Richard 50 New York Artists 118 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Ashton, Dore (Editor) Twentieth Century Artists on Art 302 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Jones, Caroline Modern Art at Harvard Formation of the 19th & 20th Cen Collections 144 Yes
1985 Kramer, Hilton The Revenge of the Philistines Art and Culture 1972-1984 445 No
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Art Now 160 Yes
1985 Miller, Dorothy C With an Eye to American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 16 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1985 Siegel, Jeanne Artwords Discourse on the 60s and 70s 235 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Barnett, Vivian Endicott 100 Works by Modern Masters From the Guggenheim Museum 211 Yes
1984 Craven, Wayne Sculpture in America (new and revised edition) 782 No
1984 DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How 320 No
1984 Hunter, Sam The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection 599 Yes
1984 Kampf, Avram Jewish Experience In the Twentieth Century 240 Yes
1984 Lucie-Smith, Edward Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition 288 Yes
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 600 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1984 Severinghaus, J Walter Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection 333 Yes
1984 Watrous, James American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980 334 Yes
1983 Kaplan, Ellen Prints A Collector's Guide 253 No
1983 Lipman, Jean Nevelson's World
(Exhibition catalog)		 244 Yes
1983 Museum of Contemporary Art The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 293 Yes
1982 Ashton, Dore American Art Since 1945 224 Yes
1982 Contemporary Arts Museum The Americans/The Collage
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 Yes
1982 Faison, S Lane Jr The Art Museums of New England 490 No
1982 Johnson, Ellen H (editor) American Artists on Art from 1940 to 1980 274 No
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1981 Cummings, Paul Drawing Acquisitions, 1978-1981 Whitney Museum of American Art 64 No
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Barnett, Vivian Endicott The Guggenheim Museum Collection Handbook/ 1900-1980 526 Yes
1980 Hibbard, Howard The Metropolitan Museum of Art 592 Yes
1980 Institute of Contemporary Art Urban Encounters Art, Architecture, Audience 64 Yes
1980 Johnson, Una E American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists 266 Yes
1980 Wilson, Lori Louise Nevelson The Fourth Dimension
(Exhibition catalog)		 71 No
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Diamonstein, Barbaralee Inside New York's Art World 380 Yes
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Krauss, Rosalind E Grids Format and Image in 20th Century Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1979 Withers, Josephine Women Artists in Washington Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1978 Daniels, Florence Why Art? A Guide to Viewing Contemporary American Art 222 No
1978 Lipman, Jean/Richard Marshall Art About Art 176 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Dillenberger, Jane & John Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1977 Societe des Expositions American Art in Belgium
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1976 Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay) Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 Yes
1976 Armstrong, Tom 200 Years of American Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 336 Yes
1976 Castelman, Riva American Prints 1913-1963
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1976 Glimcher, Arnold B Louise Nevelson (revised edition) 207 No
1976 Glubok, Shirley The Art of America Since World War II 48 No
1976 Gottlieb, Carla Beyond Modern Art 434 No
1976 Institute of Contemporary Art A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976 194 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776 208 Yes
1976 Milwaukee Art Center From Foreign Shores Three Centuries...Foreign Born American Masters
(Exhibition catalog)		 186 Yes
1976 Munro, Eleanor Originals:American Women Artists 528 Yes
1976 Nevelson, Louise Dawns and Dusks 0 No
1975 Buckley, Charles E The Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of Collections 377 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Fleischman, Lawrence A.(Intro); Lawrence Campbell (Foreward) The Art Students League of New York Anniversarly Exhibition 100 Artists, Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 284 No
1975 Legg, Alicia American Art Since 1945 From the Collection of MOMA 84 Yes
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1975 Nemser, Cindy Art Talk Conversations with 12 Women Artists 367 No
1975 Santa Fe Festival of the Arts Santa Fe Collects
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 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 Busch, Julia A Decade of Sculpture The 1960s 236 Yes
1974 Dallas Museum of Fine Art Poets of the Cities New York and San Francisco 1950-1965
(Exhibition catalog)		 174 No
1974 Gidley, Mick Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections 58 No
1974 Kuh, Katherine (Foreward); Gaylord Freeman (Intro) The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago 274 Yes
1974 Mogelon, Alex; Norman Laliberte Art in Boxes 240 Yes
1974 New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts 192 Yes
1974 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Sculpture 310 Yes
1974 Woolfenden, William E. (Foreward); Garmett McCoy (Intro) From Reliable Sources, Archives of American Art An Exhibition of Letters from the Smithsonian Instituteion
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 No
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Friedman, Martin Nevelson Wood Sculptures
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1973 Johnson, Charlotte Buel Contemporary Art Exploring It's Roots and Development 96 Yes
1973 Kramer, Hilton The Age of the Avant-Garde An Art Chronicle 1956-1972 617 No
1973 O'Connor, Francis V (editor) Art for the Millions Essays by...Artists...WPA Federal Art Project 317 No
1973 Van Der Marck, Jan American Art Third Quarter Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 138 Yes
1972 Glimcher, Arnold B Louise Nevelson 180 Yes
1972 Hill, M Brawley Women Historical Survey of Works by Women Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1972 Hunter, Sam American Art of the 20th Century 487 Yes
1972 Kahmen, Volker Eroticism in Contemporary Art 282 Yes
1972 Sandler, Irving (intro) Contemporary Art 1942-72 479 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Calas, Nicolas and Elena Icons and Images of the Sixties 347 No
1970 Blumenthal, Arthur Inaugural Exhibition 19th & 20th Cen Art from Collections of Alumni
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 No
1970 Boston University American Artists of the 1960's School of Fine Arts, Centenial Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1970 Fondation Maeght L'art Vivant aux Etats-Unis
(Exhibition catalog)		 164 Yes
1969 Faulkner, Ray; Edwin Ziegfeld Art Today 542 Yes
1969 Galleria Civica D'Arte Moderna New-Dada e Pop Art Newyorkesi Introducioni e Catalogo
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1969 Lieberman, William Twentieth Century Art From the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 139 Yes
1969 National Mus Mod Art, Tokyo Contemporary Art Dialogue between East and West
(Exhibition catalog)		 114 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
1967 Artist in America, Editors The Artist in America 256 Yes
1967 Ashton, Dore Modern American Sculpture 130 Yes
1967 Gordon, John Louise Nevelson
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 No
1967 Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques 342 No
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1966 Goodrich, Lloyd Three Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1966 Hunter, Sam (chapter on US) New Art Around the World 510 Yes
1965 Gerdts, William H Women Artists of America 1707-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 91 Yes
1963 Brandeis University New Directions in American Painting: A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1963 International Assoc. of Art Profile: Art and Artists in the USA on the Occasion of 4th Congress ... 119 No
1962 Hunter, Sam American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1961 Seitz, William C The Art of Assemblage
(Exhibition catalog)		 176 Yes
1959 Miller, Dorothy C Sixteen Americans
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 No
1958 Baur, John I H Nature in Abstraction Relation to Nature in 20th Century Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1957 American Abstract Artists The World of Abstract Art 167 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
Gardens of Art: The Sculpture Park at the Frederik Meijer Gardens 120 Yes
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