Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: A Study Of The Artist And His Work In Relation To His Times

New York City Ny: Artbook Museum, 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 30 Reproductions, 6 Plates In Full Color. 56 Pp. + 1 Pp Ad At Rear. White Spine Lettered In Green, Green Covers Lettered In Yellow. First Printing Indicated, January 1936. Ownership Signature Of Social Artist William Gropper. Dust Jacket Priced $1.00, Wear A Few Short Tears And Minute Losses, Dusty. Walter Pach (July 1, 1883 - November 27, 1958) Was An Artist, Critic, Lecturer, Art Adviser, And Art Historian Who Wrote Extensively About Modern Art And Championed Its Cause. Through His Numerous Books, Articles, And Translations Of European Art Texts Pach Brought The Emerging Modernist Viewpoint To The American Public. He Studied With Robert Henri At The New York School Of Art And Went Abroad To Paint With William Merritt Chase In The Summers Of 1903 And 1904. In 1907, Pach Moved To France And Became Part Of The Gertrude And Leo Stein Circle, And Moved Among The Parisian Avant-Garde, Exhibiting With Them And Writing About Their Work And New Artistic Vision. In 1908 He Wrote The First Article On Cézanne To Be Published In The U.S., Which Appeared In Scribner's Magazine. He Also Interviewed Claude Monet That Year And Published An Article About Him In The Same Periodical. He Helped Manage And Teach In Several Of William Merritt Chase's Summer Art Schools In Various European Locales. Pach Was The Only American Artist To Be Closely Affiliated With The Section D'or Group Of Artists, Including Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Duchamp Brothers Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Jacques Villon And Others. Pach Was Responsible For Securing Loans From These Painters For The 1913 Armory Show. Most Of The Artists In Paris Who Sent Works To The Armory Show Knew Pach Personally And Entrusted Their Works To Him.[2] Pach Married Artist Magdalene Frohberg In 1914, And Their Son Raymond Was Born At The End Of That Year. He Began Advising Walter And Louise Arensberg On Their Art Collecting And Introduced Them To Marcel Duchamp In 1915. The Following Year, With Duchamp And The Arensbergs, He Was A Major Force In The Creation Of The Society Of Independent Artists. In The Summer Of 1918 Pach Taught Two Classes, Including One On Modern Art, At The University Of California At Berkeley. In The Summer Of 1922 He Taught At The National Autonomous University Of Mexico, Where He Lectured And Wrote About Native American Art. He Helped Organize Exhibitions And Raised Money For A Museum To Be Dedicated To The Indigenous Arts Of The Americas. He Was Also A Friend Of José Clemente Orozco And Diego Rivera And Helped Organize The Mexican Chapter Of The Society Of Independent Artists. In 1923 He Began An Affiliation With New York University, Where He Taught Periodically. His Writings Include Monographs On A Wide Range Of Subjects, Social Commentary On The Art World, And A Book On Museum Structures. His First Publications Included Brochures For The 1913 Armory Show, Including Odilon Redon, And A Book About The Work Of His Close Friend Raymond Duchamp-Villon Titled A Sculptor's Architecture. Pach Considered Vincent Van Gogh A Seminal Figure In The Development Of Modern Art And Was The First Historian To Lecture On Him In America. He Published His Well-Received Monograph, Vincent Van Gogh, In 1936, And Translated The Journals Of Eugène Delacroix In 1937. His Recollections Of A Life Spent In Art, Queer Thing, Painting, Appeared In 1938. Ingres Was Published In 1939, As Well As Masterpieces Of Art, Written For The 1939 New York World's Fair, For Which He Was The Exhibition Director. His 1948 The Art Museum In America Called Into Question The Relevance, Responsibility, And Future Of The American Art Museum. He Long Championed The Artists Of Mexico And Published An Essay On Diego Rivera In 1951 For The National Museum Of Fine Arts, Mexico, For Its 50-Year Retrospective Exhibition On The Artist. His Last Book, The Classical Tradition In Modern Art, Was Published Posthumously In 1959.