| Description |
349 pages : illustrations (part color) ; 39 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 339-342. |
| Contents |
Childhood in Russia. Coming to America. Study of art. Painting of the 1920s. Exhibitions and sales; the Whitney Studio Club and the Daniel Gallery. Marriage. Works of the early 1930s; women in interiors; sense of character; intimacy. Maturing of style; light and color -- Depression of the 1930s. Political sympathies. Social subjects; the east side and it derelicts; Mr. Broe. Realism. Street scenes with women shoppers and working girls. Exhibitions, awards, critical reception. Printmaking. Artist friends and portraits. Self-portraits -- Single figures of women, late 1940s and 1950s: psychological content. Drawings of the nude. Pictures of pregnant women. Paintings of women's occupations; dancers, dressmakers. More complex compositions; three dimensional design; command of interior space. Soyer's belief in representational art and human content. Editing reality -- New developments in subjects, design and color. "Farewell to Lincoln Square." Paintings of the female nude -- "Melancholia II." Travels abroad; studies of the old masters. Books by Soyer. "Homage to Thomas Eakins." -- "Village East Street scene." -- Paintings of women, late 1960 and 1970s. "Á Watteau." "Avenue of the Americas." |
| Subject |
Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987.
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| Added Author |
Goodrich, Lloyd, 1897-1987.
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| ISBN |
0810904861 |
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9780810904866 |
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