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(AMERICAN ABSTRACT ART.) Lion, Stephan C. and Charmion Wiegand; editor Masters of Abstract Art: An Exhibition for the Benefit of The American Red Cross. April 1st to May 15th, 1942 at Helena Rubinstein's New Art Center 715 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Essays by Piet Mondrian, Fernand Leger, L. K. Morris, Stuart Davis, Hans Richter, Carl Robert Holty, and Harry Holtzman. Typography designed by Herbert Bayer. 14 black-and-white reproductions by Braque, Calder, Davis, Domela-Nieuwenhuis, Duchamp, Greene, Gris, Kandinsky, Miró, Mondrian, Morris, Richter, Holtzman, and Xceron. 209x209 mm; 8 1/4x8 1/4 inches. 42, [2] pages. 8vo, original printed stapled wrappers, moderately toned and with light edgewear, crease to upper inner corner, gently affecting contents. New York, 1942
scarce copy of the catalogue for the groundbreaking red cross masters of abstract art benefit exhibition. The show, which inaugurated Rubinstein's New Art Center on Fifth Avenue, was deemed by Clement Greenberg as "the high-water mark" and the "largest and richest" of current abstractionist group shows in New York. The famed art critic noted that its special excellence lay in the high level of accomplishment shown by the work of (then) lesser known American and foreign artists. Greenberg, The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 1, Chicago, 1988, page 103-06. OCLC lists six institutional copies. sold with--SHAW, CHARLES G.; and Holtzman, Harry; et al. American Abstract Artists 1938. Essays by the editors. Black-and-white reproductions by Josef Albers, Beckford Young, Alice Mason, David Smith, Warren Wheelock, Ilya Bolotowsky, Paul Kelpe, Frederick Kann, and many others. 8vo, original wrappers, slightly dampwrinkled, otherwise bright and in good condition. scarce first printing of an early important catalogue on american abstract art.New York: Paul Kelpe, 1938.
