The Blue Four : Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee in the New World / edited by Vivian Endicott Barnett and Josef Helfenstein ; with essays by Vivian Endicott Barnett ... [et al.].
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Published to accompany an exhibition held Dec. 5, 1997- March 1, 1998 at Kunstmuseum Bern and March 28- June 28 at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
The founding of the Blue four and their presentation in New York in 1924-1925 / Vivian Endicott Barnett -- Minister, kindermädchen, little friend : Galka Scheyer and The blue four / Christina Houstian -- Narrow circles and uneasy alliances : Galka Scheyer and American collectors of the Blue four / Naomi Sawelson-Gorse -- "I have entrusted my art to her" : Emmy Scheyer and Alexj von Jawlensky : a frienship / Angelica Jawlensky -- "The most precious and most personal of gifts" pictures exchanged between Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee / Josef Helfenstein -- "Blue four? Hardly anyone in Germany has ever heard of them" : the Blue four exhibition at the Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin, in October 1929 / Stefan Frey -- The last years of the Blue four, 1933-1945 / Vivian Endicott Barnett -- "It is a long, long road." John Cage and Galka Scheyer / Maria Müller -- Galka Scheyer and the Norton Simon Museum / Sara Campbell -- The Blue four : letters / Karin Zaugg -- The Blue four : chronology of events / Michael Baumgartner and Christina Houstian.
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