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"American Modern".(Exhibition Note)(Critical Essay)
"American Modern" at Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco. February 3-April 3, 2005
The surprise of "American Modern" comes in large part from Hackett Freedman's interpretation of its own grand title. All dating from between 1907 and 1942, these paintings, sculptures, and works on paper make the case for a period of advanced American art before Abstract Expressionism claimed the mantle of modernism for its own.
The artists of America's first modern generation worked to assimilate lessons from the School of Paris and blend them with their nativist intuitions. Take the case of John Marin, whose Landscape (1914) stands out as one of the stunnners of the show. The jazzily askew reds and yellows call to mind the Fauvist palette that enthralled Maria from the day in 1910 when he first visited the Steiglitz Gallery. But they also register his motif." they work to portray the sun refracted through clouds off the Maine coast near Mount Desert Island. In another painter, such a coupling of European Modernism and Emersonian naturalism might not appear so seamless. Certainly, some of Maria's own pictures fail. His signature style substitutes at times for felt texture. But even those weaker pieces reveal a painter who never allowed an aesthetic program to squelch his own emotion. And in his best pictures, such as Landscape, Marin's slanted and squiggled brush stroke and his love of the American topos are part and parcel of the same unified urge.
This weave of past and present seems standard fare for all of Michael Hackett's savvy selections, with works by Marsden Hartley, Smart Davis, John Graham, Elie Nadelman, and Gaston Lachaise. It's impossible merely to wander past their works: they exert a magnetic pull.
But the paintings which form the center of this exhibition are three by Milton Avery. With their simple curvilinear shapes and whimsical ...
- Frank Lobdell at the Legion of Honor and Hackett-Freedman.(San Francisco)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Tarshis, Jerome November 1, 2003 700+ words
...prints and sketchbooks--at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, plus a concurrent show of life drawings at the Hackett-Freedman Gallery. Lobdell's paintings often allude to major ethical issues and the art of the past. In 1945, his army unit...
- Manuel Neri at Hackett-Freedman.
- Magazine article from: Art in America Van Proyen, Mark June 1, 2003 700+ words
Manuel Neri's career-long focus on the solitary female form was fully evident in this compact survey gleaned from a decade's worth of work. Of the 15 sculptures and five mixed-medium works on paper that comprised the show, the most ambitious were variations on two distinct conceptions of the body.
- Patrick Heron at Hackett-Freedman.(SAN FRANCISCO)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Feldman, Melissa E. June 1, 2008 700+ words
If you think of Patrick Heron (1920-1999) as an old guard modernist, think again. Or go look at his late gouaches, the revelation of this 17-piece exhibition spanning four decades of the British painter's career. They presage work by the likes of Carroll Dunham and Dona Nelson, as well as Jessica
- Emerson Woelffer at Hackett-Freedman.
- Magazine article from: Art in America Van Proyen, Mark April 1, 2008 700+ words
Emerson Woelffer died in 2003 at the age of 88. For four decades, he was a mainstay of the Southern California art scene, regularly exhibiting his paintings while exerting a great deal of influence as a teacher and administrator at the Otis Art Institute. Nonetheless, his reputation was and
- David Park at Hackett-Freedman.(San Francisco)(art exhibition)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Van Proyen, Mark April 1, 2004 700+ words
This well-chosen exhibition of 35 works on canvas and paper from 1953 to 1960 spanned the final years of David Park's life and celebrated the well-known story of his return to figure painting in 1950, a turnaround that helped launch the Bay Area Figurative School (with Elmer Bischoff, Richard
- A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of American Modern Insurance Group and Its Members.
- Press release article from: Business Wire May 15, 2009 700+ words
...credit ratings (ICR) of "aa-" of American Modern Insurance Group (American Modern) (Amelia, OH) and its property/casualty...and ICR to "aa-" from "a-" of American Modern's formerly separately rated subsidiary...
- A.M. Best Places Ratings of American Modern Under Review With Negative...
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 18, 2007 700+ words
...credit ratings (ICR) of "aa-" of American Modern Insurance Group (American Modern) and its property/casualty members...FSR B++ (Good) and ICR of "bbb" of American Modern Life Insurance Company (American Modern...
- A.M. Best Removes Ratings of American Modern Insurance Group From Under Review.
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 9, 2008 700+ words
...credit ratings (ICR) of "aa-" of American Modern Insurance Group (American Modern) (Amelia, OH) and its property/casualty...implications and affirmed the ICR of "a-" of American Modern's parent, The Midland Company (Midland...
- A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of American Modern and Assigns Issuer Credit Ratings.
- Press release article from: Business Wire May 5, 2005 700+ words
...strength rating of A+ (Superior) of American Modern Insurance Group (American Modern) and its property/casualty affiliates...strength rating of A- (Excellent) of American Modern's life/health affiliate. Concurrently...
- American Modern Insurance Launches Dual Environmental Program.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 23, 2008 700+ words
...June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- American Modern Insurance Group combines tree...green' initiative," said American Modern Senior Vice President Dennis Robich. "The difference in American Modern's TREE2 initiative is that...
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