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Walter F Isaacs

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Walter F. Isaacs (1886 - 1964) was active/lived in Washington, Illinois.  Walter Isaacs is known for Abstract figure and portrait painting, teaching.

"Reacting to Modernism: Walter F. Isaacs," by Donald Pittenger, November 2, 2011. Published online on the blog Art Contrarian.

My old stomping ground, the School of Art at the University of Washington, held an exhibit featuring three former faculty members including its first chairman Walter F. Isaacs (1886-1964). I went to see it because two of the artists (Ray Hill, 1891-1980 and Boyer Gonzales, Jr., 1909-1987) were there when I was. But I was most anxious to see Isaacs' work because he was active during a period that interests me greatly: 1920-1945.

Why those years? Because they were the time following the surge of art movements (Cubism, Fauves, Futurism, Blaue Reiter, etc., etc.) in the years just before the Great War. Following the war many avant-garde artists experienced a what-do-we-do-next? realization as the number of new movements fell off drastically. Meanwhile, artists trained traditionally had to come to terms with modernism because the art market seemed to b   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3268 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  There are 16 similar (related) artists for Walter F Isaacs available:    Neil Meitzler,  Wendell Brazeau,  Frank Okada,  Richard Gilkey,  Robert Sperry,  George Tsutakawa,  Guy Irving Anderson,  Kathleen Parks Adkison,  William Cumming,  Windsor Utley,  Kenneth Callahan,  Paul Horiuchi,  Jay (John Jay) Steensma,  Morris Graves,  Eustace Paul Ziegler,  Dale Chihuly



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11 Book References for Walter F. Isaacs
Year Author Title Pages Color
2007 Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts & Crafts to Modern Architecture 384 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
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 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
1984 Cumming, William Sketchbook, A Memoir of the 30's and the Northwest School 239 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1936 Breckinridge, Mrs. (essay) First National Exhibition of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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