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{{Short description|American painter}}
{{Short description|American painter (1887–1979)}}
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| birth_place = Paris, France
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| {{marriage|[[Grace Mott Johnson]]|1909|1922|end=divorced}}<ref name=papers>[https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/andrew-dasburg-and-grace-mott-johnson-papers-7320 Andrew Dasburg and Grace Mott Johnson papers, 1833-1980, bulk 1900-1980], [[Archives of American Art]]. Accessed March 16, 2022. "The papers of painter Andrew Dasburg and his wife and sculptor Grace Mott Johnson date from 1833 to 1980 (bulk 1900 to 1980), and measure 8.8 linear feet."</ref>
| spouse = [[Grace Mott Johnson]] (married 1909&ndash;22)
| {{marriage|Mary Channing "Marina" Wister|1933|1970|end=died}}<ref name=papers/>
| spouse 2 = [[Nancy (Lane) Kauffmann]] (married 1928&ndash;68)<ref>James Raywalt, "...and A Cast of Thousands," Washington, DC: the author, 1989), p. 245, and sources cited therein.</ref>
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| training = [[Art Students League of New York]]
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==Biography==
==Biography==
[[File:Andrew Dasburg, Lucifer, 1913, plaster of Paris, exhibited at the 1913 Armory show, no. 647.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Andrew Dasburg, ''Lucifer'', ca. 1913, plaster of Paris, exhibited at the 1913 [[Armory show]], n. 647 of the catalogue. Dasburg extensively reworked by carving directly into a sculpture of a life-size plaster head by [[Arthur Lee (sculptor)|Arthur Lee]].<ref name="American Studies">[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~museum/armory/galleryA/tour.a.html American Studies at the University of Virginia]</ref>]]
[[File:Andrew Dasburg, Lucifer, 1913, plaster of Paris, exhibited at the 1913 Armory show, no. 647.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Andrew Dasburg, ''Lucifer'', c. 1913, plaster of Paris, exhibited at the 1913 [[Armory show]], n. 647 of the catalogue. Dasburg extensively reworked by carving directly into a sculpture of a life-size plaster head by [[Arthur Lee (sculptor)|Arthur Lee]].<ref name="American Studies">{{Cite web|url=http://xroads.virginia.edu/~museum/Armory/galleryA/tour.a.html|title=1913 Armory Show: Gallery A Tour|website=xroads.virginia.edu}}</ref>]]
Dasburg was born in 1887 in [[Paris]]. He emigrated from [[Germany]] to [[New York City]] with his widowed mother in 1892. After a severe injury, he passed the time in convalescence by sketching.<ref name="Shipp" /> In 1902 he joined the [[Art Students League of New York]] on a scholarship,<ref name="Stein">{{cite web |url=http://www.andrewdasburg.com |title=Andrew Michael Dasburg |accessdate=2007-09-25 |quote=Andrew Dasburg was one of the leading Modernists in New Mexico for sixty years. A student of [[Robert Henri]], an acquaintance of [[Henri Matisse|Matisse]] and a contributor to the famous 1913 Armory Show, his artistic credentials are sterling and his following devoted. |publisher= }}</ref> where he was taught by [[Kenyon Cox]].<ref>{{cite book
Dasburg was born in 1887 in Paris. He emigrated from Germany to New York City with his widowed mother in 1892. After a severe injury, he passed the time in convalescence by sketching.<ref name="Shipp" /> In 1902 he joined the [[Art Students League of New York]] on a scholarship,<ref name="Stein">{{cite web |url=http://www.andrewdasburg.com |title=Andrew Michael Dasburg |accessdate=2007-09-25 |quote=Andrew Dasburg was one of the leading Modernists in New Mexico for sixty years. A student of [[Robert Henri]], an acquaintance of [[Henri Matisse|Matisse]] and a contributor to the famous 1913 Armory Show, his artistic credentials are sterling and his following devoted. }}</ref> where he was taught by [[Kenyon Cox]].<ref>{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jXdzB8HmkpYC&q=Andrew+Dasburg&pg=PA78
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jXdzB8HmkpYC&q=Andrew+Dasburg&pg=PA78
|title=The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten 1913-1946
|title=The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten 1913-1946
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|year=1986
|year=1986
|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]
|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]
|isbn=0-231-06430-6}}</ref> At the League's summer school in [[Woodstock, New York]], he studied landscapes under [[L. Birge Harrison]].<ref name="Shipp" />
|isbn=0-231-06430-6}}</ref> At the league's summer school in [[Woodstock, New York]], he studied landscapes under [[L. Birge Harrison]].<ref name="Shipp" />


In 1909 Dasburg visited Paris and joined the modernist circle of artists living there, including [[Morgan Russell]], [[Jo Davidson]], and [[Arthur Lee (sculptor)|Arthur Lee]]. During a trip to London that same year he married sculptor Grace Mott Johnson. Johnson returned to the United States early the next year, but Dasburg stayed in Paris where he met [[Henri Matisse]], [[Gertrude Stein]] and [[Leo Stein]], and became influenced by the paintings of [[Paul Cézanne|Cézanne]] and [[Cubism]].<ref name="aaa.si.edu">Corley, Erin, ''[http://www.aaa.si.edu/collectionsonline/dasbandr/overview.htm A Finding Aid to the Andrew Dasburg and Grace Mott Johnson Papers, 1833-1980 (bulk 1900-1980)]'', Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref> He soon became an ardent promoter of the [[Cubism|Cubist]] style.<ref name="Shipp" />
In 1909 Dasburg visited Paris and joined the modernist circle of artists living there, including [[Morgan Russell]], [[Jo Davidson]], and [[Arthur Lee (sculptor)|Arthur Lee]]. During a trip to London that same year he married sculptor Grace Mott Johnson. Johnson returned to the United States early the next year, but Dasburg stayed in Paris where he met [[Henri Matisse]], [[Gertrude Stein]] and [[Leo Stein]], and became influenced by the paintings of [[Paul Cézanne]] and [[Cubism]].<ref name="aaa.si.edu">Corley, Erin, ''[http://www.aaa.si.edu/collectionsonline/dasbandr/overview.htm A Finding Aid to the Andrew Dasburg and Grace Mott Johnson Papers, 1833-1980 (bulk 1900-1980)]'', Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref> He soon became an ardent promoter of the Cubist style.<ref name="Shipp" />


Dasburg returned to Woodstock, New York, in August and he and Johnson became active members of the artist community. In 1911 their son Alfred was born, the same year as Dasburg's first exhibition.<ref name="Stein" /> Dasburg exhibited three oils and a sculpture<ref name="Shipp" /> at the "International Exhibition of Modern Art", better known the [[Armory Show]], which opened in [[New York City]]'s [[69th Regiment Armory]] in 1913 and introduced astonished New Yorkers to [[modern art]].<ref>[http://www.artnet.com/artist/4813/andrew-michael-dasburg.html Andrew Michael Dasburg], artnet. Accessed October 30, 2007.</ref> The three Cubist-oriented oils displayed at the 1913 show were considered "daringly experimental".<ref name=NYTObit/> In the years after the [[Armory Show]], Dasburg's works were exhibited along with those of other Modernists at [[Alfred Stieglitz]]'s [[291 (Art Gallery)|291]] gallery.<ref>Corley, Erin, ''[http://www.aaa.si.edu/collectionsonline/dasbandr/overview.htm A Finding Aid to the Andrew Dasburg and Grace Mott Johnson Papers, 1833-1980 (bulk 1900-1980)]'', Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref>
Dasburg returned to Woodstock, New York, in August and he and Johnson became active members of the artist community. In 1911 their son Alfred was born, the same year as Dasburg's first exhibition.<ref name="Stein" /> Dasburg exhibited three oils and a sculpture<ref name="Shipp" /> at the International Exhibition of Modern Art, better known the [[Armory Show]], which opened in New York City's [[69th Regiment Armory]] in 1913 and introduced astonished New Yorkers to [[modern art]].<ref>[http://www.artnet.com/artist/4813/andrew-michael-dasburg.html Andrew Michael Dasburg], artnet. Accessed October 30, 2007.</ref> The three Cubist-oriented oils displayed at the 1913 show were considered "daringly experimental".<ref name=NYTObit/> In the years after the Armory Show, Dasburg's works were exhibited along with those of other Modernists at [[Alfred Stieglitz]]'s [[291 (Art Gallery)|291]] gallery.<ref>Corley, Erin, ''[http://www.aaa.si.edu/collectionsonline/dasbandr/overview.htm A Finding Aid to the Andrew Dasburg and Grace Mott Johnson Papers, 1833-1980 (bulk 1900-1980)]'', Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref>


At the Armory show, Dasburg exhibited the only sculpture he had ever made. Prior to the show, he extensively reworked a sculpture, originally a life-size cast plaster head by [[Arthur Lee (sculptor)|Arthur Lee]], by carving facets directly into the plaster of Paris.<ref name="American Studies" />
At the Armory Show, Dasburg exhibited the only sculpture he had ever made. Prior to the show, he extensively reworked a sculpture, originally a life-size cast plaster head by [[Arthur Lee (sculptor)|Arthur Lee]], by carving facets directly into the plaster of Paris.<ref name="American Studies" />


<blockquote>''I asked him if I could cut it which he was glad – we were very close friends. So I carved a head and it must have been an awful-looking thing. At the time, I called it Lucifer, looked like Lucifer. At the Armory Show, they put it right up at the entrance as you came in, and here was this head on a stand.''<ref>[http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-andrew-dasburg-13243 Archives of American Art, ''Oral history interview with Andrew Dasburg'', 26 March 1974 (interviewed by Paul Cummings)]</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>I asked him if I could cut it which he was glad – we were very close friends. So I carved a head and it must have been an awful-looking thing. At the time, I called it Lucifer, looked like Lucifer. At the Armory Show, they put it right up at the entrance as you came in, and here was this head on a stand.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-andrew-dasburg-13243|title=Oral history interview with Andrew Dasburg, 1974 March 26|website=www.aaa.si.edu}}</ref></blockquote>


Dasburg and Johnson lived apart for most of their marriage. By 1917 they had separated and Dasburg began teaching painting in Woodstock and in New York City. In 1918 he was invited to Taos, New Mexico, by [[Mabel Dodge Luhan]], and returning in 1919, Johnson joined him there for a period of time.<ref name="aaa.si.edu" /> After moving to [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]] in 1921, Dasburg integrated the boxy traditional construction styles in [[New Mexico]] into his [[Cubism|Cubist]] art.<ref>Zimmer, William. [https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/27/nyregion/mexico-both-sides-of-the-border-from-the-century-s-first-half.html "Mexico, Both Sides of the Border, From the Century's First Half"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 27, 1996. Accessed October 30, 2007. "Andrew Dasburg worked with the idea that New Mexican towns and villages, with their arrangements of box-like buildings, constituted a kind of Cubism in the flesh. His ''Taos Houses (New Mexican Village)'' is a good example of this."</ref>
Dasburg and Johnson lived apart for most of their marriage. By 1917 they had separated and Dasburg began teaching painting in Woodstock and in New York City. In 1918 he was invited to Taos, New Mexico, by [[Mabel Dodge Luhan]], and returning in 1919, Johnson joined him there for a period of time.<ref name="aaa.si.edu" /> After moving to [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]], in 1921, Dasburg integrated the boxy traditional construction styles in [[New Mexico]] into his Cubist art.<ref>Zimmer, William. [https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/27/nyregion/mexico-both-sides-of-the-border-from-the-century-s-first-half.html "Mexico, Both Sides of the Border, From the Century's First Half"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 27, 1996. Accessed October 30, 2007. "Andrew Dasburg worked with the idea that New Mexican towns and villages, with their arrangements of box-like buildings, constituted a kind of Cubism in the flesh. His ''Taos Houses (New Mexican Village)'' is a good example of this."</ref>


In 1924, Dasburg collaborated with a group of other artists and writers to form the Spanish and Indian Trading Company, a cooperative "curio shop" located on East San Francisco across from Santa Fe's [[La Fonda]]. In its inaugural year, the store sold Dasburg's own collection of Native American and Mexican blankets, and [[Witter Bynner]]'s Navajo silver.<ref>["Curio Shop by Artists New Departure in Old Santa Fe"], ''[[The Santa Fe New Mexican]]'', April 24, 1924. Accessed September 8, 2020.</ref>
In 1924, Dasburg collaborated with a group of other artists and writers to form the Spanish and Indian Trading Company, a cooperative "curio shop" located on East San Francisco across from Santa Fe's [[La Fonda]]. In its inaugural year, the store sold Dasburg's own collection of Native American and Mexican blankets, and [[Witter Bynner]]'s Navajo silver.<ref>["Curio Shop by Artists New Departure in Old Santa Fe"], ''[[The Santa Fe New Mexican]]'', April 24, 1924. Accessed September 8, 2020.</ref>


[[File:Andrew Dasburg - Improvisation.jpg|thumb|right|Andrew Dasburg, ''Improvisation'', c.1915&ndash;16]]
[[File:Andrew Dasburg - Improvisation.jpg|thumb|right|Andrew Dasburg, ''Improvisation'', c. 1915&ndash;16]]
In both New York and Taos, he was part of the social milieu that included [[Georgia O'Keeffe]] and [[Gertrude Stein]], and a close friend of [[Mabel Dodge Luhan]].<ref name="Stein" /> A painting named ''The Absence of Mabel Dodge'' was allegedly painted to inflame the jealousy of her then-lover, mutual friend [[John Reed (journalist)|John Reed]] (it was a pointed reminder of a [[peyote]] celebration in which the two had shared), and for four years Dasburg and Reed's other lover [[Louise Bryant]] carried on an affair.<ref name="Wetzsteon">{{cite book
In both New York and Taos, he was part of the social milieu that included [[Georgia O'Keeffe]] and [[Gertrude Stein]], and a close friend of [[Mabel Dodge Luhan]].<ref name="Stein" /> A painting named ''The Absence of Mabel Dodge'' was allegedly painted to inflame the jealousy of her then-lover, mutual friend [[John Reed (journalist)|John Reed]] (it was a pointed reminder of a [[peyote]] celebration in which the two had shared), and for four years Dasburg and Reed's other lover [[Louise Bryant]] carried on an affair.<ref name="Wetzsteon">{{cite book
|url=https://archive.org/details/republicofdreams00wetz
|url=https://archive.org/details/republicofdreams00wetz
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|year=2002
|year=2002
|publisher=Simon and Schuster
|publisher=Simon and Schuster
|isbn=0-684-86996-9}} The painting is now lost.</ref> The elderly Dasburg appeared posthumously as himself in the movie about Reed and Bryant, ''[[Reds (film)|Reds]]'', although he "curiously ... does not speak of his intimacy with either".<ref>{{cite book
|isbn=0-684-86996-9}} The painting is now lost.</ref> The elderly Dasburg appeared posthumously as himself in the movie about Reed and Bryant, ''[[Reds (film)|Reds]]'', although he "curiously&nbsp;... does not speak of his intimacy with either".<ref>{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YSZeteMhP_UC&q=Andrew+Dasburg&pg=PA194
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YSZeteMhP_UC&q=Andrew+Dasburg&pg=PA194
|title=Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies
|title=Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies
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|isbn=978-1-58243-355-4}}</ref>


In 1933, he married poet Mary Channing "Marina" Wister, the daughter of [[Owen Wister]].<ref>Staff. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,745319,00.html "Dispatches"], ''[[Time (magazine)]]'', March 13, 1933. Accessed November 21, 2015. "Married. Mary Channing Wister, poetess daughter of Novelist Owen Wister; and Painter Andrew Michael Dasburg, 45, Guggenheim Fellow; in Philadelphia."</ref><ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1933/02/07/archives/fuuuuuuuuuui-miss-mary-c-wister-betrothed-to-artist-daughter-of.html "MISS MARY C. WISTER BETROTHED TO ARTIST; Daughter of Owen Wister, the Novelist, and Herself a Poet to Wed Andrew Dasburg."], ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 7, 1933. Accessed November 25, 2015. ""The engagement of Miss Mary Channing Wister, daughter of Owen Wister, the novelist, to Andrew Dasburg, an artist of Santa Fe, N. M., was announced today."</ref><ref>[[Joseph Conrad|Conrad, Joseph]]; Karl, Frederick Robert; and Davies, Laurence. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UVzMFTPFP9MC&pg=PR61 ''The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, Volume 7''], p. lxi. [[Cambridge University Press]], 1983. {{ISBN|9780521561969}}. Accessed November 25, 2015. "(Mary Channing) 'Marina' WISTER (1899-1970), the eldest child of the American novelist Owen Wister and civic activist Mary Channing Wister, published three books of poems.... Married to the New Mexico painter Andrew Dasburg in 1933, she settled in Taos, and in addition to writing poetry and music was involved in asserting the rights of native people."</ref>
In 1933, he married poet Mary Channing "Marina" Wister, the daughter of [[Owen Wister]].<ref>Staff. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101122132425/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,745319,00.html "Dispatches"], ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', March 13, 1933. Accessed November 21, 2015. "Married. Mary Channing Wister, poetess daughter of Novelist Owen Wister; and Painter Andrew Michael Dasburg, 45, Guggenheim Fellow; in Philadelphia."</ref><ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1933/02/07/archives/fuuuuuuuuuui-miss-mary-c-wister-betrothed-to-artist-daughter-of.html "Miss Mary C. Wister Betrothed to Artist; Daughter of Owen Wister, the Novelist, and Herself a Poet to Wed Andrew Dasburg."], ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 7, 1933. Accessed November 25, 2015. "The engagement of Miss Mary Channing Wister, daughter of Owen Wister, the novelist, to Andrew Dasburg, an artist of Santa Fe, N. M., was announced today."</ref><ref>[[Joseph Conrad|Conrad, Joseph]]; Karl, Frederick Robert; and Davies, Laurence. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UVzMFTPFP9MC&pg=PR61 ''The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, Volume 7''], p. lxi. [[Cambridge University Press]], 1983. {{ISBN|9780521561969}}. Accessed November 25, 2015. "(Mary Channing) 'Marina' WISTER (1899-1970), the eldest child of the American novelist Owen Wister and civic activist Mary Channing Wister, published three books of poems.... Married to the New Mexico painter Andrew Dasburg in 1933, she settled in Taos, and in addition to writing poetry and music was involved in asserting the rights of native people."</ref>


Dasburg died in his home in [[Taos, New Mexico]], on August 13, 1979, at age 92.<ref name=NYTObit>{{cite news |first= |last= |author-link= |title=Andrew Dasburg, Cubist Painter, Dies. Said to Be Last Surviving Artist of the Armory Show of 1913. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/14/archives/andrew-dasburg-cubist-painter-dies-said-to-be-last-surviving-artist.html |quote=Andrew Dasburg, a painter who was said to be the last survivor of the artists who contributed work to the Armory show of 1913, died yesterday in Taos, N.M. He was 92 years old. |work=New York Times |date= August 14, 1979|accessdate=2007-09-25 }}</ref> Following his death, the [[New Mexico Museum of Art]] in Santa Fe held a 96-work retrospective exhibition funded in part by the [[National Endowment for the Arts]] which traveled to four other Western states.<ref name="Waters">{{cite book
Dasburg died in his home in [[Taos, New Mexico]], on August 13, 1979, at age 92.<ref name=NYTObit>{{cite news |title=Andrew Dasburg, Cubist Painter, Dies. Said to Be Last Surviving Artist of the Armory Show of 1913. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/14/archives/andrew-dasburg-cubist-painter-dies-said-to-be-last-surviving-artist.html |quote=Andrew Dasburg, a painter who was said to be the last survivor of the artists who contributed work to the Armory show of 1913, died yesterday in Taos, N.M. He was 92 years old. |work=New York Times |date= August 14, 1979|accessdate=2007-09-25 }}</ref> Following his death, the [[New Mexico Museum of Art]] in Santa Fe held a 96-work retrospective exhibition funded in part by the [[National Endowment for the Arts]] which traveled to four other Western states.<ref name="Waters">{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UzidA4ETRFEC&q=Andrew+Dasburg&pg=PA219
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UzidA4ETRFEC&q=Andrew+Dasburg&pg=PA219
|title=Of Time and Change
|title=Of Time and Change
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|publisher= MacAdam/Cage Publishing
|publisher= MacAdam/Cage Publishing
|isbn=1-878448-07-2}}</ref>
|isbn=1-878448-07-2}}</ref>
His works are in the collections of the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], New Mexico Museum of Art<ref>{{cite web|title=Related for Andrew Dasburg|url=http://sam.nmartmuseum.org/view/objects/asimages/People$004081?t:state:flow=f75d93e9-11a8-4e1c-8feb-d52c8329904f|publisher=New Mexico Museum of Art|accessdate=28 April 2014}}</ref> and the [[Denver Art Museum]], among others.<ref name=NYTObit/>
His works are in the collections of the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], New Mexico Museum of Art<ref>{{cite web|title=Related for Andrew Dasburg|url=http://sam.nmartmuseum.org/view/objects/asimages/People$004081?t:state:flow=f75d93e9-11a8-4e1c-8feb-d52c8329904f|publisher=New Mexico Museum of Art|accessdate=28 April 2014}}</ref> and the [[Denver Art Museum]], among others.<ref name=NYTObit/>


His home in [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]], at 520 and 524 Camino del Monte Sol, is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] as a contributing building in the [[Camino del Monte Sol Historic District]].<ref name=nrhpdoc-Camino>{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=88000440}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Camino del Monte Sol Historic District |publisher=[[National Park Service]]|author=Corinne P. Sze |date=February 12, 1988 |accessdate=July 8, 2019}} With {{NRHP url|id=88000440|photos=y|title=accompanying 30 photos}}</ref>
His home in [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]], at 520 and 524 Camino del Monte Sol, is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] as a contributing building in the [[Camino del Monte Sol Historic District]].<ref name=nrhpdoc-Camino>{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=88000440}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Camino del Monte Sol Historic District |publisher=[[National Park Service]]|author=Corinne P. Sze |date=February 12, 1988 |accessdate=July 8, 2019}} With {{NRHP url|id=88000440|photos=y|title=accompanying 30 photos}}</ref>
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|quote = It turned out to be an important event for the art world of Los Angeles and also for the museum’s collection, to which were added not only the purchase prize paintings-William Wendt’s Where Nature’s God Hath Wrought, John Carroll’s Parthenope, Andrew Dasburg’s Tulips, Guy Pène du Bois’s Shops, and Diego Rivera’s Flower Day --but also [[Bernard Karfiol]]’s Seated Figure and Eugene Savage’s Recessional.
|quote = It turned out to be an important event for the art world of Los Angeles and also for the museum’s collection, to which were added not only the purchase prize paintings-William Wendt’s Where Nature’s God Hath Wrought, John Carroll’s Parthenope, Andrew Dasburg’s Tulips, Guy Pène du Bois’s Shops, and Diego Rivera’s Flower Day --but also [[Bernard Karfiol]]’s Seated Figure and Eugene Savage’s Recessional.
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* ''Poppies'', Third Prize, 16th International Exhibition of Art, [[Carnegie Institute of Technology]] (1927)<ref>{{cite news
* ''Poppies'', Third Prize, 16th International Exhibition of Art, [[Carnegie Institute of Technology]] (1927)<ref>{{cite magazine
|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,736939,00.html
|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,736939,00.html
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|title=International Exhibition
|title=International Exhibition
|date=October 24, 1927
|date=October 24, 1927
|publisher=[[TIME magazine]]
|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]
|accessdate=2007-10-31
|accessdate=2007-10-31
|quote=Third prize ($500) was given to Andrew Dasburg of Santa Fe. He had painted a table, on which a vase was full of poppy petals, heaped on the canvas like the bright blood of an immortal.}}</ref>
|quote=Third prize ($500) was given to Andrew Dasburg of Santa Fe. He had painted a table, on which a vase was full of poppy petals, heaped on the canvas like the bright blood of an immortal.}}</ref>
* [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] (1932)<ref>{{cite news
* [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] (1932)<ref>{{cite magazine
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|title=Guggenheim Fellowships
|title=Guggenheim Fellowships
|date=March 21, 1932
|date=March 21, 1932
|publisher=[[TIME magazine]]
|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]
|accessdate=2007-10-31}}</ref>
|accessdate=2007-10-31}}</ref>

== Exhibitions ==
* 'Quest for the New: Modernism in the Southwest', Lewallen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM, 2018
* 'Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns and the West', The Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico, Taos, NM, 2016
* 'An American Modernism: Painting and Photography', New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2015 - 2016
* 'Modernism Made in New Mexico', Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM, 2015
* 'Southwestern Allure: The Art of the Santa Fe Art Colony', Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, 2013
* 'The Cubist Impulse in American Art', Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2009
* 'Andrew Dasburg, 1887-1979 : a retrospective exhibition', Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1979

== Publications ==
* 'Spirited Visions: The Art of Andrew Dasburg (1887–1979)', by Catherine Whitney (Author), Rebecca Friedman (Editor), Gerald P. Peters Gallery (Publisher), Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 2011, {{ISBN|978-0-935037-58-6}}
* 'Andrew Dasburg: His Life and Art', by Sheldon Reich, 1989, Bucknell University Press, PA, {{ISBN|978-0-8387-5098-8}}
* 'Modernist Painting in New Mexico 1913 - 1935', by Sharin Rohlfsen Udall, University of New Mexico Press, 1984, {{ISBN|0-8263-0729-9}}
* 'Andrew Dasburg', by Van Deren Coke, University of New Mexico Press, 1979, {{ISBN|978-0-8263-0516-9}}
* 'Andrew Dasburg', by Jerry Bywaters, American Federation of Arts, 1959, ASIN : B000BH11A0


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Andrew Dasburg
Andrew Dasburg, c. 1940s
Born
Andrew Michael Dasburg

(1887-05-04)May 4, 1887
Paris, France
DiedAugust 13, 1979(1979-08-13) (aged 92)
Taos, New Mexico, US
EducationArt Students League of New York
Known forPainting
MovementCubism, Synchromism
Spouses
  • ​
    ​
    (m. 1909; div. 1922)​
    [1]
  • Mary Channing "Marina" Wister
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1933; died 1970)​
    [1]

Andrew Michael Dasburg (4 May 1887 – 13 August 1979) was an American modernist painter and "one of America's leading early exponents of cubism".[2]

Biography[edit]

Andrew Dasburg, Lucifer, c. 1913, plaster of Paris, exhibited at the 1913 Armory show, n. 647 of the catalogue. Dasburg extensively reworked by carving directly into a sculpture of a life-size plaster head by Arthur Lee.[3]

Dasburg was born in 1887 in Paris. He emigrated from Germany to New York City with his widowed mother in 1892. After a severe injury, he passed the time in convalescence by sketching.[2] In 1902 he joined the Art Students League of New York on a scholarship,[4] where he was taught by Kenyon Cox.[5] At the league's summer school in Woodstock, New York, he studied landscapes under L. Birge Harrison.[2]

In 1909 Dasburg visited Paris and joined the modernist circle of artists living there, including Morgan Russell, Jo Davidson, and Arthur Lee. During a trip to London that same year he married sculptor Grace Mott Johnson. Johnson returned to the United States early the next year, but Dasburg stayed in Paris where he met Henri Matisse, Gertrude Stein and Leo Stein, and became influenced by the paintings of Paul Cézanne and Cubism.[6] He soon became an ardent promoter of the Cubist style.[2]

Dasburg returned to Woodstock, New York, in August and he and Johnson became active members of the artist community. In 1911 their son Alfred was born, the same year as Dasburg's first exhibition.[4] Dasburg exhibited three oils and a sculpture[2] at the International Exhibition of Modern Art, better known the Armory Show, which opened in New York City's 69th Regiment Armory in 1913 and introduced astonished New Yorkers to modern art.[7] The three Cubist-oriented oils displayed at the 1913 show were considered "daringly experimental".[8] In the years after the Armory Show, Dasburg's works were exhibited along with those of other Modernists at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery.[9]

At the Armory Show, Dasburg exhibited the only sculpture he had ever made. Prior to the show, he extensively reworked a sculpture, originally a life-size cast plaster head by Arthur Lee, by carving facets directly into the plaster of Paris.[3]

I asked him if I could cut it which he was glad – we were very close friends. So I carved a head and it must have been an awful-looking thing. At the time, I called it Lucifer, looked like Lucifer. At the Armory Show, they put it right up at the entrance as you came in, and here was this head on a stand.[10]

Dasburg and Johnson lived apart for most of their marriage. By 1917 they had separated and Dasburg began teaching painting in Woodstock and in New York City. In 1918 he was invited to Taos, New Mexico, by Mabel Dodge Luhan, and returning in 1919, Johnson joined him there for a period of time.[6] After moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1921, Dasburg integrated the boxy traditional construction styles in New Mexico into his Cubist art.[11]

In 1924, Dasburg collaborated with a group of other artists and writers to form the Spanish and Indian Trading Company, a cooperative "curio shop" located on East San Francisco across from Santa Fe's La Fonda. In its inaugural year, the store sold Dasburg's own collection of Native American and Mexican blankets, and Witter Bynner's Navajo silver.[12]

Andrew Dasburg, Improvisation, c. 1915–16

In both New York and Taos, he was part of the social milieu that included Georgia O'Keeffe and Gertrude Stein, and a close friend of Mabel Dodge Luhan.[4] A painting named The Absence of Mabel Dodge was allegedly painted to inflame the jealousy of her then-lover, mutual friend John Reed (it was a pointed reminder of a peyote celebration in which the two had shared), and for four years Dasburg and Reed's other lover Louise Bryant carried on an affair.[13] The elderly Dasburg appeared posthumously as himself in the movie about Reed and Bryant, Reds, although he "curiously ... does not speak of his intimacy with either".[14] He was also involved for some time with Ida Rauh, a co-founder of the Provincetown Players, and the two of them were friends with D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda von Richthofen, and helped Lawrence recover from a bout of tuberculosis that nearly got him refused entry to the U.S. at the border with Mexico.[15]

In 1933, he married poet Mary Channing "Marina" Wister, the daughter of Owen Wister.[16][17][18]

Dasburg died in his home in Taos, New Mexico, on August 13, 1979, at age 92.[8] Following his death, the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe held a 96-work retrospective exhibition funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts which traveled to four other Western states.[19] His works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Mexico Museum of Art[20] and the Denver Art Museum, among others.[8]

His home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 520 and 524 Camino del Monte Sol, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing building in the Camino del Monte Sol Historic District.[21]

Awards and honors[edit]

Exhibitions[edit]

  • 'Quest for the New: Modernism in the Southwest', Lewallen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM, 2018
  • 'Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns and the West', The Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico, Taos, NM, 2016
  • 'An American Modernism: Painting and Photography', New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2015 - 2016
  • 'Modernism Made in New Mexico', Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM, 2015
  • 'Southwestern Allure: The Art of the Santa Fe Art Colony', Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, 2013
  • 'The Cubist Impulse in American Art', Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2009
  • 'Andrew Dasburg, 1887-1979 : a retrospective exhibition', Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1979

Publications[edit]

  • 'Spirited Visions: The Art of Andrew Dasburg (1887–1979)', by Catherine Whitney (Author), Rebecca Friedman (Editor), Gerald P. Peters Gallery (Publisher), Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 2011, ISBN 978-0-935037-58-6
  • 'Andrew Dasburg: His Life and Art', by Sheldon Reich, 1989, Bucknell University Press, PA, ISBN 978-0-8387-5098-8
  • 'Modernist Painting in New Mexico 1913 - 1935', by Sharin Rohlfsen Udall, University of New Mexico Press, 1984, ISBN 0-8263-0729-9
  • 'Andrew Dasburg', by Van Deren Coke, University of New Mexico Press, 1979, ISBN 978-0-8263-0516-9
  • 'Andrew Dasburg', by Jerry Bywaters, American Federation of Arts, 1959, ASIN : B000BH11A0

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Andrew Dasburg and Grace Mott Johnson papers, 1833-1980, bulk 1900-1980, Archives of American Art. Accessed March 16, 2022. "The papers of painter Andrew Dasburg and his wife and sculptor Grace Mott Johnson date from 1833 to 1980 (bulk 1900 to 1980), and measure 8.8 linear feet."
  2. ^ a b c d e Steve Shipp (1996). American Art Colonies, 1850-1930: A Historical Guide to America's Original Art Colonies and Their Artists. Greenwood Press. p. 115. ISBN 0-313-29619-7. Andrew Dasburg.
  3. ^ a b "1913 Armory Show: Gallery A Tour". xroads.virginia.edu.
  4. ^ a b c "Andrew Michael Dasburg". Retrieved 2007-09-25. Andrew Dasburg was one of the leading Modernists in New Mexico for sixty years. A student of Robert Henri, an acquaintance of Matisse and a contributor to the famous 1913 Armory Show, his artistic credentials are sterling and his following devoted.
  5. ^ Edward Burns, ed. (1986). The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten 1913-1946. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-06430-6.
  6. ^ a b Corley, Erin, A Finding Aid to the Andrew Dasburg and Grace Mott Johnson Papers, 1833-1980 (bulk 1900-1980), Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
  7. ^ Andrew Michael Dasburg, artnet. Accessed October 30, 2007.
  8. ^ a b c "Andrew Dasburg, Cubist Painter, Dies. Said to Be Last Surviving Artist of the Armory Show of 1913". New York Times. August 14, 1979. Retrieved 2007-09-25. Andrew Dasburg, a painter who was said to be the last survivor of the artists who contributed work to the Armory show of 1913, died yesterday in Taos, N.M. He was 92 years old.
  9. ^ Corley, Erin, A Finding Aid to the Andrew Dasburg and Grace Mott Johnson Papers, 1833-1980 (bulk 1900-1980), Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
  10. ^ "Oral history interview with Andrew Dasburg, 1974 March 26". www.aaa.si.edu.
  11. ^ Zimmer, William. "Mexico, Both Sides of the Border, From the Century's First Half", The New York Times, October 27, 1996. Accessed October 30, 2007. "Andrew Dasburg worked with the idea that New Mexican towns and villages, with their arrangements of box-like buildings, constituted a kind of Cubism in the flesh. His Taos Houses (New Mexican Village) is a good example of this."
  12. ^ ["Curio Shop by Artists New Departure in Old Santa Fe"], The Santa Fe New Mexican, April 24, 1924. Accessed September 8, 2020.
  13. ^ Ross Wetzsteon (2002). Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village, the American Bohemia, 1910-1960. Simon and Schuster. p. 97. ISBN 0-684-86996-9. Andrew Dasburg. The painting is now lost.
  14. ^ Mark Christopher Carnes (1995). Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies. Holt Paperbacks. ISBN 0-8050-3760-8.
  15. ^ John Worthen (2007). D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider. Counterpoint Press. ISBN 978-1-58243-355-4.
  16. ^ Staff. "Dispatches", Time, March 13, 1933. Accessed November 21, 2015. "Married. Mary Channing Wister, poetess daughter of Novelist Owen Wister; and Painter Andrew Michael Dasburg, 45, Guggenheim Fellow; in Philadelphia."
  17. ^ Staff. "Miss Mary C. Wister Betrothed to Artist; Daughter of Owen Wister, the Novelist, and Herself a Poet to Wed Andrew Dasburg.", The New York Times, February 7, 1933. Accessed November 25, 2015. "The engagement of Miss Mary Channing Wister, daughter of Owen Wister, the novelist, to Andrew Dasburg, an artist of Santa Fe, N. M., was announced today."
  18. ^ Conrad, Joseph; Karl, Frederick Robert; and Davies, Laurence. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, Volume 7, p. lxi. Cambridge University Press, 1983. ISBN 9780521561969. Accessed November 25, 2015. "(Mary Channing) 'Marina' WISTER (1899-1970), the eldest child of the American novelist Owen Wister and civic activist Mary Channing Wister, published three books of poems.... Married to the New Mexico painter Andrew Dasburg in 1933, she settled in Taos, and in addition to writing poetry and music was involved in asserting the rights of native people."
  19. ^ Frank Waters (2000). Of Time and Change. MacAdam/Cage Publishing. ISBN 1-878448-07-2.
  20. ^ "Related for Andrew Dasburg". New Mexico Museum of Art. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  21. ^ Corinne P. Sze (February 12, 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Camino del Monte Sol Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved July 8, 2019. With accompanying 30 photos
  22. ^ "History of the American Art Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art". Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 2009-10-13. Retrieved 2007-10-31. It turned out to be an important event for the art world of Los Angeles and also for the museum's collection, to which were added not only the purchase prize paintings-William Wendt's Where Nature's God Hath Wrought, John Carroll's Parthenope, Andrew Dasburg's Tulips, Guy Pène du Bois's Shops, and Diego Rivera's Flower Day --but also Bernard Karfiol's Seated Figure and Eugene Savage's Recessional.
  23. ^ "International Exhibition". Time. October 24, 1927. Archived from the original on November 25, 2010. Retrieved 2007-10-31. Third prize ($500) was given to Andrew Dasburg of Santa Fe. He had painted a table, on which a vase was full of poppy petals, heaped on the canvas like the bright blood of an immortal.
  24. ^ "Guggenheim Fellowships". Time. March 21, 1932. Archived from the original on October 27, 2010. Retrieved 2007-10-31.

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