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Cameron Booth

Cameron Booth (1892 - 1980) was active/lived in Minnesota.  Cameron Booth is known for Regionalist and abstract painting.

A painter of American landscapes and an art teacher in New York City and Minneapolis, Cameron Booth painted in both realist or post-impressionist styles as and abstract styles including Cubism.  Late in his career he adopted Abstract Expressionism including gestural techniques.  Many of his realist paintings of rural Minnesota make him part of the American Scene movement with his depictions of iron mining towns, struggling farmers, Indian reservations and other hard-living conditions is Minnesota during the 1930s.

He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and studied at the Art Students League of Chicago, with Andre L'hote in Paris, and Hans Hofmann in Munich.  From 1944 to 1948 and 1948 to 1954, he taught at The Art Students League in New York City and from 1948 to 1960 at the Minneapolis School of art, which became the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

While a student in Chicago, he attended the Armory Show of 1913, which introduced avant-garde   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3264 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Cameron Booth

   Publications  Book References:  35
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Cameron Booth
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Artist Nuts & Bolts June 2003 Baxter, Kathleen Yes
35 Book References for Cameron Booth
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Snell, Robert, Curator and NIcole Sheridan, Researcher and Author Cameron Booth: A Retrospective (Hiro Fine Art)
(Exhibition catalog)
30 Yes
2011 Makholm, Kristin (Editor) Our Treasures: Highlights from the Minnesota Museum of American Art (Minnesota Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)
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
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 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
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 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1983 Contreras, Belasario R Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art 253 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 University of Minnesota The American Scene Urban & Rural Regionalists, 30s and 40s
(Exhibition catalog)
39 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
1974 Baigell, Mathew The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s 214 Yes
1973 O'Connor, Francis V (editor) Art for the Millions Essays by...Artists...WPA Federal Art Project 317 No
1965 Selz, Peter Art Across America
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1961 Arnason, H H Cameron Booth 48 Yes
1961 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists
(Exhibition catalog)
1961 No
1960 Walker Art Center 60 American Painters 1960 Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties
(Exhibition catalog)
78 Yes
1958 O'Connor, William Van (editor) A History of the Arts in Minnesota 62 No
1957 American Abstract Artists The World of Abstract Art 167 Yes
1956 Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed) American Painting Today 127 Yes
1944 The Art Institute of Chicago The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)
22 No
1940 Hall, W. S. Eyes on America United States as Seen by Her Artists 150 Yes
1939 Cheney, Martha Candler Modern Art in America 190 No
1939 Watson, Forbes (essay) American Painting Today 179 Yes
1936 Breckinridge, Mrs. (essay) First National Exhibition of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
1936 Cahill, Holger (Introduction) New Horizons in American Art (Federal Art Project exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, NY)
(Exhibition catalog)
171 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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