William S. Schwartz

Chicago Modernist Line Drawing Reclining Nude WPA Artist. Exhibited Work

c. 1930

Subject: Figures Medium: Other, Charcoal Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions w/Frame: 27 1/4" x 20 1/4" without frame 15.25" X22.75" EDUCATION New York Studio School of Painting , Drawing & Sculpture 1973 Empire State College, B.A., Painting and Curatorial Studies 1999 ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS Mirrors, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, N.Y. 1999 Figures, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, N.Y. 1997 Sexual Monochromes, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, N.Y. 1992 "Paintings", 17th Street Gallery, New York, N.Y. 1976 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Family Line- drawings and paintings by Anne Harvey, Jason Harvey and Steven Harvey, New York Studio School, New York, NY 2002 Steven Harvey- Paintings and Bruce Gagnier - Sculpture, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY 2000 Woman, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, N.Y. 1999 Water and Light, Mary Gearhart Gallery, New York, N.Y. 1997 Contemporary Figures, M B Modern Gallery 1997 On Air, St. Peterís Church, N.Y. 1997 People , Places and Things: An Exploration of the Portrait, 1996-97 New York Studio School Cafe El Maroc, Jamaica Arts Center 1994 Paintings, Schlesinger Gallery 1993 WFMU Benefit Auction, Germans Van Eck Gallery 1992 Night, Trenkmann Gallery 1991 ACT UP Benefit Auction, Paula Cooper Gallery 1990 Figuring Eros, Director's Annual, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, N.Y. 1990 Erotic America, Galerie Antoine Candeau, Paris, France 1989 Of Another Nature, Loughelton Gallery, N.Y.C. 1988 New Territories in Art: Europe/America, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Francavilla Al Mare, Italy 1987 Spatial FX, Annina Nosei Gallery 1987 Paint/Film, Bess Cutler Gallery 1987 Melancholy, Anne Plumb Gallery 1987 Group Invitational, Schlesinger Gallery 1986 Thought Objects, Cash/Newhouse Gallery 1985 Saloon/Salon, Bill Rice Gallery 1985 Steven Harvey has worked as an art advisor, art dealer, curator, and writer for over 25 years. He is the director of Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in NYC, a gallery focused on contemporary painting, which he founded in 2007. SHFAP moved to the lower east side in 2011. It exhibits contemporary artists including Susanna Coffey, Kurt Knobelsdorf, Sangram Majumdar, Stuart Shils, Gideon Bok, Eleanor Ray...

Reclining Cubist Nude Woman Max Weber (April 18, 1881 – October 4, 1961) was a Jewish-American painter and one of the first American Cubist painters who, in later life, turned to more figurative Jewish themes in his art. He is best known today for Chinese Restaurant (1915), in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, "the finest canvas of his Cubist phase," in the words of art historian Avis Berman. Born in the Polish city of Białystok, then part of the Russian Empire, Weber emigrated to the United States and settled in Brooklyn with his Orthodox Jewish parents at the age of ten. He studied art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn under Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow was a fortunate early influence on Weber as he was an "enlightened and vital teacher" in a time of conservative art instruction, a man who was interested in new approaches to creating art. Dow had met Paul Gauguin in Pont-Aven, was a devoted student of Japanese art, and defended the advanced modernist painting and sculpture he saw at the Armory Show in New York in 1913. In 1905, after teaching in Virginia and Minnesota, Weber had saved enough money to travel to Europe, where he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and acquainted himself with the work of such modernists as Henri Rousseau (who became a good friend), Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other members of the School of Paris. His friends among fellow Americans included some equally adventurous young painters, such as Abraham Walkowitz, H. Lyman Sayen, and Patrick Henry Bruce. Avant-garde France in the years immediately before World War I was fertile and welcoming territory for Weber, then in his early twenties. He arrived in Paris in time to see a major Cézanne exhibition, meet the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, frequent Gertrude Stein's salon, and enroll in classes in Matisse's private "Academie." Rousseau gave him some of his works; others, Weber purchased. He was responsible for Rousseau's first exhibition in the United States. In 1909 he returned to New York and helped to introduce Cubism to America. He is now considered one of the most significant early American Cubists, but the reception his work received in New York at the time was profoundly discouraging. Critical response to his paintings in a 1911 show at the 291 gallery, run by Alfred Stieglitz, was an occasion for "one of the most merciless critical whippings that any artist has received in America." The reviews were "of an almost hysterical violence." He was attacked for his "brutal, vulgar, and unnecessary art license." Even a critic who usually tried to be sympathetic to new art, James Gibbons Huneker, protested that the artist's clever technique had left viewers with no real picture and made use of the adage, "The operation was successful, but the patient died."[8] As art historian Sam Hunter wrote, "Weber's wistful, tentative Cubism provided the philistine press with their first solid target prior to the Armory Show." The Cellist...

The artist renders the image of a sitting woman using delicate contour lines similar to Matisse. The artist avoids use of color, light and shadow emphasizing the contour of the figure.

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