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Wilfred Zogbaum

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Wilfred Zogbaum (1915 - 1965) was active/lived in New York, Rhode Island.  Wilfred Zogbaum is known for Abstract imagery, modernist sculpture.

Best known today as a sculptor, Wilfrid Zogbaum began his art career as a modernist painter. He was the son of an admiral and the grandson of Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum, an artist-illustrator who covered the Spanish-American War. As a child, Zogbaum traveled extensively in Europe, and spoke French and German fluently. In high school, he spent two summers studying painting and drawing at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1933 he enrolled for a year at the Yale School of Art, but left to go to New York where he studied initially with John Sloan. Beginning in 1935, Zogbaum attended Hans Hofmann's school, where, with Giorgio Cavallon and George McNeil, he served as a class monitor.

Zogbaum described Hofmann as "the only prophet of modern art in America." He believed, with Hofmann, in the importance of nature within art: " … when art gets too far away from nature or from ordinary things it begins to lose itself in a kind of … glorious mist."(1) Some of Zogbaum's paintings from this   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4386 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  22
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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Wilfred Zogbaum
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review The Yasuna Collection August 1994 Vevers, Tony Yes
22 Book References for Wilfred Zogbaum
Year Author Title Pages Color
2008 Berman, Avis (Hollis Taggart Galleries) Order and Intuition American Abstraction From The Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, 1913-1954
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 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
2003 Herskovic, Marika (editor) American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey 372 Yes
2000 Herskovic, Marika New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists 393 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1994 Provincetwon Art Association and Museum Provincetown Abstract Painting 1915-1950 From The Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Albright, Thomas Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History 349 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
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 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1977 Bard, Joellan Tenth Street Days The Co-Ops of the 50's
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Busch, Julia A Decade of Sculpture The 1960s 236 Yes
1966 Hunter, Sam (chapter on US) New Art Around the World 510 Yes
1964 Rosenberg, Harold The Anxious Object Art Today and Its Audience 272 No
1962 Hunter, Sam American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 Yes
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