Nicholas Fox Weber's Blog, page 10
August 4, 2014
Charles Burchfield, Railroad Gantry, 1920
Stephen (Clark)… observed in a new way the extent to which the sight of beautiful
paintings offered hope in difficult times.
–Nicholas Fox Weber, The Clarks of Cooperstown
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August 3, 2014
August 2, 2014
Henri Matisse, Interior With Phonograph
In 1930, no one else in America, except for the Cone sisters in Baltimore and Dr. Albert Barnes in Philadelphia, had shown such an intense interest this
French artist who, with Picasso, was one of the two giants of the modern movement.
− Nicholas Fox Weber on Stephen Clark, The Clarks of Cooperstown
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Henri Matisse, Interior With Phonograph, 1924
In 1930, no one else in America, except for the Cone sisters in Baltimore and Dr. Albert Barnes in Philadelphia, had shown such an intense interest this
French artist who, with Picasso, was one of the two giants of the modern movement.
− Nicholas Fox Weber on Stephen Clark, The Clarks of Cooperstown
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August 1, 2014
Henri Matisse, La Coiffure, 1901
There was another driving forced that lured the Modern’s (MOMA) founders to Stephen (Clark). Those who had been to the gray stone house on Seventieth Streetand penetrated the Gothic interior − it resembled a large country getaway more than one expected in the middle of Manhattan − knew that the top floor, a loft thathad initially served as a playroom for the Clarks’ daughter and three sons, had at least eight major Matisses in it and had been redesigned for them in a highlyunusual way. In 1930, no one else in America, except for the Cone sisters in Baltimore and Dr. Albert Barnes in Philadelphia, had shown such an intense interestthis French artist who, with Picasso, was one of the two giants of the modern movement.
− Nicholas Fox Weber, The Clarks of Cooperstown
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John Singer Sargent, Neapolitan Children Bathing
From The Clarks of Cooperstown
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