HARRY HOLTZMAN
AND
AMERICAN ABSTRACTION
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Sculpture n 1 and 2
1940 1942
Yale University Art Gallery
Carnegie Museum Pittsburgh
(details)
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until
26 of January 2014
at the
Florence Griswold Museum
Old Lyme
Connecticut
http://www.florencegriswoldmuseum.org/exhibitions_13Holtzman.php
Harry Holtzman
Works
SCULPTURE 1941-42
Oil and Tempera on cheesecloth or muslin, laid down on masonite.
152.4X30.5 cm
Inscribed top on wooden support
“Harry Holtzman/1941-42 Sculpture”
Gift of the Artist Dec 1949
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Of this painting construction (Sculpture 1941) by Harry Holtzman now in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, 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.
(Extract from a contribute of the author of the blog on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Holtzman )
Mondrian and Neo-Plasticism in America
Nancy J.Troy,
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven Connecticut, 1979, pp.42-45
Library of Congress Catalogue
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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YALE UNIVERSITY
E CATALOGUE
HARRY HOLTZMAN SCULPTURE
1941 1942
http://ecatalogue.art.yale.edu/detail.htm?objectId=48093
Sculpture
1941-1942
Harry Holtzman, American, 1912 – 1987
Gift of the artist to the Collection Société Anonyme
1950.112
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Oil and tempera on cheesecloth or muslin laid down on masonite
283cm x 30.5 x 30.5 cm
(82 x 12 x 12 in. )
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Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 2006), 175, ill.
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Photo Ethnoflorence
Text Credit
http://ecatalogue.art.yale.edu/detail.htm?objectId=48093
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HARRY HOLTZMAN
MARCEL DUCHAMP
MAYA DEREN
ART OF THIS CENTURY GALLERY
1943
NEW YORK
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SCULPTURE 1941 1942
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.
second part of the film starting from here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xaPk6mrUo0
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ETHNOFLORENCE
2013
Harry Holtzman
Sculpture
1941 1942
Gift of the artist to the
Collection Société Anonyme
1950
(112)
YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
NEW HAVEN
Bibliography
Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat.
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 175, ill.
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