#Florine Stettheimer

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Florine Stettheimer (American, 1871 – 1944)

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Florine Stettheimer, Portrait of Carl Van Vechten, 1922. Florine and Ettie Stettheimer Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature

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Florine Stettheimer (American, 1871 - 1944): Still Life with Flowers (1921) (via Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)

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Florine Stettheimer, Lake Placid, 1919.

 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Miss Ettie Stettheimer.

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Florine Stettheimer, Spring Sale at Bendel's, 1921, oil/canvas (Museum of Art, Philadelphia)

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Florine Stettheimer, Family Portrait, II, 1933. Oil on canvas.

Dressed in a black pantsuit and with palette and paintbrush in hand, the artist appears at the far left side of this family portrait. She is joined by her mother, who sits upright in the golden armchair at right, and her sisters, Ettie and Carrie; the former reclines in the chair beside the artist, and the latter flanks the scene at the opposite end, a cigarette between her fingers. An artist, set designer, and poet, Stettheimer led a New York salon where she entertained her family and a close circle of artists, critics, and curators, exhibiting her work and sharing her poems.

Signs of her 1930s Manhattan milieu abound in this painting’s backdrop—an imagined skyline that features the Art Deco skyscraper at the heart of Rockefeller Center, known today as the Comcast Building, as well as Radio City Music Hall, the Chrysler Building, the Statue of Liberty, and a dragon-adorned decorative fragment from Alwyn Court, the midtown apartment building where the artist lived and worked. Overtaking these monumental and modern structures, Stettheimer depicted a trio of fantastically enormous blooming flowers at the painting’s center. She was unabashedly proud of this unconventional and personal portrait, frequently referring to the painting as “my masterpiece.”

Photo & text: Museum of Modern Art

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Florine Stettheimer, Portrait of Myself, 1923

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Party on the lake   -   Florine Stettheimer, n/d.

American , 1871  -  1944

Oil on cardboard mounted on board , 18 x 24 in.

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Florine Stettheimer (August 29, 1871 – May 11, 1944) was an American painter, designer, Jazz Age saloniste and poet.

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Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) Tulips Under a Canopy signed with initials in monogram 'FS' (lower right) oil on canvas 40 x 32 in. (101.6 x 81.3 cm.) Painted circa 1925.

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Florine Stettheimer (American, 1871-1944)

Family Portrait II, with Florine decked out in a sleek black pantsuit, with her mother and two sisters, 1933

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Florine Stettheimer - Portrait Of Marcel Duchamp (1925)

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Self-Portrait with Palette, Painter and Faun

Artist: Florine Stettheimer (American, 1871–1944)

Date: c. 1915

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Location: Avery Library, New York

Description

Florine Stettheimer’s dreamy, theatrical paintings range from surrealistic, symbol-laden scenes to diaristic portrayals of upper-crust lifestyles in the interwar era. Stettheimer is also credited as one of the first women to ever paint a full-scale nude self-portrait; her subversive feminist spirit infuses much of her work. The artist’s loose, liquid brushstrokes and soft, washed-out, Fauvist color palettes add a fantastical dimension to her compositions, which variously feature floral arrangements and vibrant, intricately arranged nature and party scenes viewed from distorted perspectives. Stettheimer, who also wrote poetry and created set designs, became an important member and supporter of New York’s avant-garde: She ran influential salons with her sister, which drew artists including Marcel Duchamp and Georgia O’Keeffe. Her work has sold for six figures at auction and belongs in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, among others.

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Florine Stettheimer, Sunday Afternoon in the Country, 1917

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Florine Stettheimer painted this portrait of leading NY art critic Henry McBride hugging a Winslow Homer watercolor of a palm tree on a reproduction of the Homer painting itself. McBride called the painting, which at the Met, one of his "aesthetic pre-occupations," and Stettheimer turned it into his brand. Then gave this weird thing to her lawyer, whose heirs are finally selling it.

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Florine Stettheimer, The Cathedrals of Broadway, 1929, oil/canvas (Met Museum, NYC)