Alfred StieglitzAmerican, 1864–1946John Marin
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Along with fellow Photo-Secessionists and avant-garde European artists, Stieglitz also began to promote the work of a new generation of American painters at his gallery. He made portraits of many of them as well, as seen here in the images of John Marin, Arthur Dove, and Marsden Hartley. While utterly modern in approach, these photographs hearken back to the work of both David Octavius Hill and Julia Margaret Cameron—whom Stieglitz had discovered only a few years earlier—with figures emerging from massed, shadowy backgrounds.
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Meanwhile, in the life of Alfred Stieglitz
The whole lifeJanuary – April 1908
Rodin and Matisse at 291
In January 1908 Stieglitz showed drawings by Rodin at his gallery, and in April an exhibition of Matisse, beginning his campaign to introduce the American public to the newest European art.
1909
Death of his father, Edward Stieglitz
His father, Edward Stieglitz (1833–1909), who had once taken the family to Europe for the children's education, died; as he would later do after his mother's death, Alfred buried his grief in his work.
1910
The Albright show and a new round of attacks
In 1910 the director of the Albright Art Gallery invited Stieglitz to organise a major show of the best contemporary photography, which provoked a new round of attacks: American Photography magazine called the Photo-Secession “a reactionary force of the most dangerous type”. “The reputation, not only of the Photo-Secession, but of photography is at stake,” Stieglitz wrote to the photographer George Seeley.
1911
The Met turns down Picasso for $2,000
In 1911 Stieglitz offered the Metropolitan Museum a collection of Picasso's works for $2,000 but was refused: according to the director, such mad things would never be accepted by America. Between 1908 and 1915 he exhibited 89 paintings and drawings by Picasso but could sell only one, which he ended up buying himself.
March – April 1911
Cézanne watercolours and Picasso drawings at 291
In March 1911 Stieglitz presented Cézanne's watercolours to the American public, and in April drawings and watercolours by Picasso.
August 1912
A Camera Work issue on Matisse and Picasso
By the summer of 1912 Stieglitz was so enthralled with non-photographic art that he devoted the August issue of Camera Work entirely to Matisse and Picasso.
