Florine Stettheimer, Self-Portrait with Palette (Painter and Faun), undated (Art Properties, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York. Gift of the Estate of Ettie Stettheimer, 1967)
James Kalm visits Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry at the Jewish Museum, New York, on view through September 4, 2017.
Kalm notes: "Through her involvement in the art world Stettheimer came in contact with the most advanced members of the avant-garde who had flocked to New York, like Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia. Not having to paint for profit, the artist was free to develop a unique style which was a precursor of Surrealism and featured her own extravagant and decorative sensibilities. She captured and documented her vanishing social milieu using these singular means."
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James Kalm Report
