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Francis Criss

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Francis Hyman Criss (1901 - 1973) was active/lived in New York.  Francis Criss is known for Precise urbanscape, genre, surreal.

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 A painter known for his combining of precisionism and surrealism, Francis Criss was a student from 1917 to 1921 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later of Jan Matulka at the Art Students League in New York. He received his first significant attention at the 1932 Whitney Museum's First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. In 1934, supported by Charles Sheeler, he earned a Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship and traveled to Europe, where he created "Fascism," one of his best-known works.

From 1935 to 1939, he was a teacher and muralist in New York for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration and was one of the artists who worked on the mural painting for the Williamsburg Housing Project in Brooklyn. During the 1940s, he did much commercial illustration, and then returned to fine art in the 1950s and 60s, experimenting with Pointillism and a series of collages.

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   Publications  Book References:  41
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Francis Criss
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review 1930s Paintings of Francis Criss April 2002 Stavitsky, Gail Yes
41 Book References for Francis Criss
Year Author Title Pages Color
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
2002 Spanierman Gallery (Editor) The Spirit of America: American Art from 1829 to 1970
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
2002 Statvitksy, Gail Restructured Reality: The 1930s Paintings of Francis Criss 32 Yes
2001 Spanierman, Deborah (essay) 110 Years of American Art:1830-1940 (Spanierman Galleries, LLC)
(Exhibition catalog)		 136 Yes
2000 Spanierman Gallery America Gone Modern: From the Twenties to the Sixties
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 Yes
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 (Students) 187 No
1996 Sussman, Elizabeth City of Ambition Artists and New York, 1900-1960
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1994 Stavitsky, Gail; Ellen Handy, Miles Orvell et all Precisionism in America 1915-1941 Reordering Reality
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 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
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
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 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
1987 Saint Louis Art Museum The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism, 1911-1947 225 Yes
1986 Baigell, Mathew/Julia Williams Artists Against War and Fascism Papers/First American Artists' Congress 310 No
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 Kilgore, Karen American Paintings from the first half of the 20th century
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1985 Wooden, Howard E American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
(Exhibition catalog)		 151 No
1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 273 Yes
1983 Chwast, Seymour/S Heller The Art of New York 190 No
1983 Contreras, Belasario R Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art 253 No
1982 Tsujimoto, Karen Images of America Precisionist Painting and Photography
(Exhibition catalog)		 248 Yes
1981 Gerdts, William H The Art of Healing, Medicine and Science in American Art (Birmingham Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1980 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Buildings Architecture in American Modernism
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 Yes
1980 Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 544 Yes
1978 Berman, Greta Mural Painting in New York City: Under the WPA Federal Art Project 300 No
1978 Shapiro, David Art for the People New Deal Murals on Long Island
(Exhibition catalog)		 59 No
1977 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Lines of Power
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1973 O'Connor, Francis V (editor) Art for the Millions Essays by...Artists...WPA Federal Art Project 317 No
1946 Pagano, Grace; Donald Bear (Intro) Contemporary American Painting 260 Yes
1939 Parker, Thomas (De Young Mus) Frontiers of American Art: Works Progress Administration
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 No
1939 Watson, Forbes (essay) American Painting Today 179 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
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