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Lorser Feitelson

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Lorser Feitelson (1898 - 1978) was active/lived in California, New York.  Lorser Feitelson is known for Hard edge-op modernist, surreal figure painting.

A painter, Lorser Feitelson became known for abstraction but briefly explored mural painting of regionalist subjects.  In his signature work, Feitelson used many images and symbols that evoke dreams and address the subconscious mind.  He was a key figure in modern art in California at a time when that area had little exposure to avant-garde styles of which he explored a variety including Surrealism, Cubism and Kinetic work.

Feitelson was born in Savannah, Georgia but grew up in New York City.  His father was an art connoisseur and took his son on frequent visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  After the 1913 Armory Show in New York, which introduced modern art to America, he turned to abstraction and by age eighteen, had established a studio. In the 1920s he went back and forth between New York and Paris and exhibited at the Salon D'Automne in Paris and various galleries in New York.

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Facts about Lorser Feitelson

   Publications  Book References:  69
Magazine References:  8

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8 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Lorser Feitelson
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Review of Exhibitions January 2007 Editors Yes
Art in America Collectors: Cosmopolitan California March 2004 Duncan, Michael No
ARTnews Reviews September 2003 Editor, ARTnews Yes
American Art Review Focus on the Figure August 2001 Martin, Gloria Rexford Yes
Art in America Assessing the Golden State April 2001 Duncan, Michael Yes
American Art Review Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surreal August 1995 Ehrlich, Susan Yes
ARTnews REviews June 1995 Editors, ART news Yes
American Art Review Independent Visions October 1994 Nelson, Harold Yes
69 Book References for Lorser Feitelson
Year Author Title Pages Color
2008 Kovinic, Marian, Dr. Will South, Julia Armstrong-Totten (Pasadena Museum of California Art) A Seed of Modernism- The Art Students League of Los Angeles
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 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 Louis Stern Fine Arts and Peter Selz Lorser Feitelson: The Kinetic Series- Works from 1916-1923
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 Yes
2004 Hickey, Dave; Diane Moran Helen Lundeberg and the Illusory Landscape: Five Decades of Painting 136 Yes
2004 Louis Stern Fine Arts and Harold B. Nelson Karl Benjamin: Paintings from 1950-1965
(Exhibition catalog)		 46 Yes
2003 Hopkins, Henry; Michael Duncan Lorser Feitelson and the Invention of Hard Edge Painting: 1945-1965
(Exhibition catalog)		 100 Yes
2003 Sherman, Charlotte (Essay) With an Eye and a Passion: Selections from The Marion Collection 38 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
2002 Komanecky, Michael K. (editor) Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights 352 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media 560 Yes
1996 Karlstrom, Paul J (editor) On the Edge of America California Modernist Art, 1900-1950 308 Yes
1995 Ehrlich, Susan (editor) Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California 1934-1957
(Exhibition catalog)		 208 Yes
1995 Tashjian, Dickran A Boatload of Madmen Surrealism and American Avant-Garde 1920-1950 424 No
1993 Laguna Art Museum 75 Works, 75 Years Collecting the Art of California
(Exhibition catalog)		 139 Yes
1992 National Gallery of Art American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 545 No
1992 Seitz, William C Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970 250 Yes
1991 Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County 510 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Karlstrom, Paul/Susan Ehrlich Turning the Tide Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-56
(Exhibition catalog)		 168 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
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 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 600 No
1984 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall Southern California Art Publication 3, Dictionary 291 No
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1983 Adams, Clinton American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers 228 Yes
1983 Monterey Peninsula Museum California Contemporary Recent Work of Twenty Three Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 63 No
1983 Museum of Contemporary Art The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 293 Yes
1982 Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960
(Exhibition catalog)		 195 Yes
1982 Trenton, Patricia The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 197 Yes
1981 Ball, Maudette Southern California Artists 1940-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 66 Yes
1981 Davidson, Abraham A Early American Modernist Painting 1910-1935 324 Yes
1981 Moran, Dianne De Gasis Feitelson (Lorser Feitelson) 36 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1980 Feinblatt, Ebria/Bruce Davis Los Angeles Prints 1883-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 No
1980 Moran, Diane D Lorser Feitelson & Helen Lundeber Retrospective Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1980 Wall, Nancy Dustin Painting and Sculpture in Los Angeles, 1900-1945 112 No
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro) Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
(Exhibition catalog)		 298 Yes
1978 California State U Long Beach Frederick Weisman Collection California Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Los Angeles County Museum California 5 Footnotes to Modern Art History 124 No
1977 Wechsler, Jeffrey Surrealism and American Art 1931-1947
(Exhibition catalog)		 116 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 San Francisco Mus Modern Art Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era 272 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Plagens, Peter Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast 200 Yes
1969 Coplans, John West Coast 1945-1969
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1968 Barr, Alfred/George Hugnet Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism
(Exhibition catalog)		 271 No
1968 University of Oklahoma East Coast-West Coast Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1967 Artist in America, Editors The Artist in America 256 Yes
1967 Rickey, George Constructivism Origins and Evolution 305 No
1967 U of New Mexico Art Museum Cubism, Its Impact in the USA 1910-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1965 Seitz, William C The Responsive Eye
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 Yes
1965 University of Illinois Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 210 No
1962 Gordon, John Geometric Abstraction in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1962 Schaad, Bentley The Realm of Contemporary Still Life Painting 126 Yes
1956 Long Beach Muni Art Center California Painting 40 Painters 90 No
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1944 The Art Institute of Chicago The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 22 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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