Florine Stettheimer
It is Sunday, so it is time for our monthly partnership with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts collection! Today, we are featuring the work of one of my favorite artists—Florine Stettheimer.
Born into a wealthy New York family, Stettheimer studied at the Art Students League before obtaining further training in Munich and Paris during a 15-year European sojourn. Upon the outbreak of World War I, her family returned to New York and quickly came to dominate the city’s progressive art circles. The Stettheimer salon drew the major avant-garde figures in the 20s and 30s, including Marcel Duchamp, Elie Nadelman, and Carl Van Vechten. At this time, Stettheimer moved away from conventional academic practice to develop her own self-consciously “naïve” modernism of simple forms and vivid colors, derived from both European and Asian sources. In a series of conversation-piece portraits, Stettheimer depicted her friends and family with a wry intimacy and warmth. Picnic at Bedford Hills portrays the Stettheimer sisters relaxing with Nadelman and Duchamp in a vibrant landscape, while laborers plow the neighboring field.
Have a great Sunday!
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