Irving Sandler

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Irving Sandler (born July 22, 1925 in New York City , † June 2, 2018 in Manhattan ) was an American art historian and professor at the State University of New York .

Life

Sandler was born in New York City in 1925, the son of teacher Harry Sandler. During World War II , Sandler served in the US Marine Corps and repeatedly attended courses at Franklin and Marshall College . After military service, he studied at Temple University and graduated with a bachelor's degree. He then completed a master's degree at the University of Pennsylvania until 1950 .

Between 1956 and 1959 Sandler was the manager of a gallery in New York and wrote art reviews for the art magazine Art News from 1956 to 1962 . During this time he frequented the artistic circles of the Abstract Expressionists and eventually became a chronicler of the art movement with the book "The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism". After a scholarship abroad in Germany and Austria in 1960, Sandler became an art critic for the New York Post . In 1963 he became a lecturer at New York University . In 1965 he received the Guggenheim grant . In 1972 he was appointed professor at the State University of New York, where he subsequently obtained his doctorate until 1976.

Works (selection)

Books

  • The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism . Harper & Row, New York, 1977
  • The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties Westview Press, 1979
  • Alex Katz . Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1979
  • Al hero . Hudson Hills Press, 1984
  • The Empire State Collection: Art for the Public Harry N. Abrams, New York 1987
  • American Art of the 1960's . HarperCollins Publishers, 1989
  • Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s Westview Press, 1997
  • Antonakos . Hudson Hills Press Inc., 1999
  • with Lori Verderame: Seymour Lipton: An American Sculptor: An American Sculptor . Hudson Hills Press, 2000
  • A Sweeper-up After Artists: a Memoir . Thames & Hudson, London, 2003
  • Judy Pfaff . Hudson Hills Press, 2003
  • From Avant-Garde to Pluralism: An On-The-Spot History . Hard Press, 2006
  • Abstract Expressionism and the American Experience: A Reevaluation . Hudson Hills Press, 2009

Exhibition catalogs

  • with Michael Rush, Catherine Morris: Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950 . Rosamund Publishers, 2010
  • with William C. Agee and Karen Wilkin: American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927−1942. Yale University, Yale, New York, London, 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irving Sandler, Art Historian Who Was Close to Artists, Dies at 92 , accessed June 3, 2018
  2. ↑ Sandler in the "Dictionary of art historians"
personal data
SURNAME Sandler, Irving
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian and critic
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 2nd June 2018
Place of death Manhattan