Mondrian and Neo-Plasticism in America
Nancy J.Troy,
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven Connecticut, 1979, pp.42-45
Library of Congress Catalogue
ISBN 0-89467-011-5
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery
Oct 18 to Dec 2 1979
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Artists included in the exhibition
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PIET MONDRIAN
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Iliya Bolotowsky
Burgoyne Diller
Fritz Glarner
Harry Holtzman
Leo Polk Smith
Charmion von Wiegand
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PRINCIPAL REFERENCES
FOR THE HARRY HOLTZMAN
CHAPTER
pp. 42 – 45
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Katherine Dreier Marcel Duchamp
THE COLLECTION OF THE SOCIETE ANONYME:
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART,
NEW HAVEN YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
1950
pp. 118 119
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RUTH GURIN
Interview with Harry Holtzman
January 11 1965
Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Inst. Washington D.C.
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The Harry Holtzman works present in the exhibition
were:
EQUILIBRIUM OF MOVEMENT AND COUNTERMOVEMENT
1933
CHARCOAL ON PAPER
18 7/8 X 24 1/4
(ESTATE OF HARRY HOLTZMAN)
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HORIZONTAL VOLUME
1938 1946
OIL ON GESSOED LINEN
12 X 33″
(San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
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LATERAL VOLUME #1
1939 1940
OIL AND TEMPERA ON CHESSECLOTH
OR MUSLIN LAID DOWN ON MASONITE
60 X 12 X 1 1/2″
(Museum of Modern Art Corniegie Institute, Pittsburgh)
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LATERAL VOLUME # 2
1939 1940
OIL AND TEMPERA ON CHESSECLOTH
OR MUSLIN LAID DOWN ON MASONITE
60 X 12 X 1 1/2″
(Societe Anonyme, Yale University Art Gallery)
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SCULPTURE
1941 1942
OIL AND TEMPERA ON CHESSECLOTH
OR MUSLIN LAID DOWN ON MASONITE
60 X 12 X 12″
(Societe Anonyme, Yale University Art Gallery)
Of this ‘painting construction’ sculpture 1941 by Harry Holtzman Piet Mondrian commented:
“In the present three dimensional works of H.H. (Harry Holtzman) the picture moves still more from the wall into our surrounding space. In this way the painting more literally annihilates the three dimensional volume.”
(letter to Harry Holtzman 6 1 1942 cited by Daniel Abadie in the catalogue ‘Paris New York Paris’, Paris Musee National d’Art Moderne Centre George Pompidou 1977)
The piece, included in the
“Spring Salon for Young Artists”
(18 May – 26 June 1943)
at the Art of this Century Gallery in New York,
was also shown in the
Maya Deren’s film “Witch’s Cradle”
filmed at the AoTC during the August 1943
According to Nancy J. Troy Holtzman’s sculptures
are akin to works by European and American artists who sought to apply Mondrian’s principle of Neoplasticism into the three dimension.
Cesar Domela, Jean Gurin, B Diller,worked out from the painted surface but still adhering to that surface for their overall concept.
Harry Holtzman set out in a new direction by working in the round.
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