Howard Greenfeld: 2 books
by Howard Greenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Ben Shahn was born in Lithuania in 1898 and emigrated to New York with his family in 1906. Trained as a lithographer, Shahn created social realist paintings of controversial subjects such as Sacco and Vanzetti. He worked as an assistant to Diego Rivera on Rivera’s Rockefeller Center mural, and...
The Devil and Dr. Barnes
Portrait of and American Art Collector
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
Albert Coombs Barnes, one of the most eccentric, controversial figures of the early twentieth-century art world, springs vividly from the pages of Howard Greenfeld's superb biography. The Devil and Dr. Barnes traces the near-mythical journey of a man who was born into poverty, amassed a fortune through...