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DIED. Samuel M. Kootz, 83, foresighted art dealer and paladin of abstract expressionism in America; in New York City. Kootz helped to define the emerging school by showing such artists as Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, Carl Holty, Fritz Glarner and Adolph Gottlieb. As a critic and author, Kootz griped about American artists who poured "their ideas into the same corny molds." By contrast, he wrote of the abstract expressionists' works: "Dramatically personal, each painting contains part of the artist's self, this revelation of himself in paint being a conscious revolt from our Puritan heritage...
Only a fraction of the energy that went into the study of abstract expressionism has been spent on Mondrian's small circle of U.S. disciples, such as Fritz Glarner, Ilya Bolotowsky and Burgoyne Diller. Their aloof and rigorous art could never have been a popular recipe; but allowing for that, and for the fact that they labored beneath the almost overpowering shadow of Mondrian himself, the silence about such pioneers is still remarkable. For though the public did not look closely or often at their work, later artists did; the "mondrianists" were one of the secret influences on 1960s...
Died. Fritz Glarner, 73, Swiss-born artist whose "relational painting" derived from the style of Piet Mondrian; of a stroke; in Locarno, Switzerland. A disciple of Mondrian in Paris during the '20s, Glarner moved to the U.S. in 1936 and set about developing his own identity as a painter and muralist. Though he retained the stark primary colors used by his mentor, Glarner skewed the Mondrian rectangles in an attempt to make his work seem less static. He spent three decades in the U.S., then returned to Switzerland six years ago after being critically injured on the liner Michelangelo...
...Among the best known: Isamu Noguchi, Josef Albers, Fritz Glarner, Gaston Lachaise, Louis Bouché, Naum Gabo, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and William Zorach. Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera was commissioned to paint the main fresco for the RCA Building's lobby, had his mural removed in 1933 when he inserted the face of Lenin...
Some of the best-known artists in the U.S. are represented by the 55 prints in the show: Josef Albers, Jasper Johns. Fritz Glarner, Al Blaustein and Ben Shahn are among the 42 printmakers. Many of them started in other mediums, only to find new planes of expression through the tools and inks of printmaking. Leonard Baskin, 42, turned to it around 1949: "I was trying to do in sculpture what was essentially graphic, things too complex in terms of their ideas. I started with wood cuts, then turned to etching and discovered new areas of possibility." He sports...