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Organize An Exhibition Of American: Just after the founding of the society, Stieglitz was personally invited by the National Arts Club to organize an exhibition of American pictorial photography in their New York building. "I enlisted the aid of the then newly organized and limited 'Photo-Secession,' " he wrote in Photograms of the Year 1902, "and it was determined to hold the forthcoming exhibition under the auspices of that group."The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City organize local and national competitions in water colors. The International Water Color Exhibition Biennials are held at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, and similar shows are held in the Art Institute, Chicago, 111., and other major museums. Consult Whitney Museum of American Art, A History of American Watercolor Painting, catalogue, with introduction by Alan Burroughs (New York 1942); Goodrich, Lloyd, American Watercolor and Winslow Homer (New York 1945). General histories of American painting, such as Edgar Preston Richardson's Painting in America (New York 1956), mention specialists in water-color painting. For current developments, consult catalogues published by the museums.
In 1929 a mammoth international exhibition of "The New Photography" was held in Stuttgart by the Deutsche Werkbund, the German organization so instrumental in the promotion of modern architecture and industrial design. The "Film und Foto" exhibition featured photographs by the artists we have discussed in this chapter, and also a strong group of American photographs selected by Edward Weston—who also wrote a foreword to the catalog—and Edward Steichen. The American work was highly praised. Indeed, the art historian Carl Georg Heise considered Weston's portrait The Sharpshooter— Manuel Hernandez Galvdn the high point of the entire exhibition. |
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