Queer Thing, Painting Forty Years in the World of Art

QUEER THING, PAINTING OTHER BOOKS BY WALTER PACH GEORGES SEURAT 1923 THE MASTERS OF MODERN ART 1924 RAYMOND DUCHAMP-VILLON 1924 ANANIAS OR THE FALSE ARTIST 1928 MODERN ART IN AMERICA 1928 AN HOUR OF ART 1930 VINCENT VAN GOGH 1936 Translations HISTORY OF ART, BY ELIE FAURE 5 VOLS, 1921-1930 THE JOURNAL OF EUGENE DELACROIX 1937 a ft 1 Jkf. ff f WALTER PACH, SELF-PORTRAIT, ETCHING, 1938 Walter QUEER THING PAINTING FORTY YEARS IN THE WORLD OF ART ILLUSTRATED HARPER BROTHERS PUBLISHERS TJeta york and Condon 1938 TO EDNA AND ARTHUR STRASSER CONTENTS i. QUEER THING, PAINTING 1 II. MR. CHASE, ROBERT HENRI, JOHN SLOAN 31 III. ALBERT P. RYDER, THOMAS EAKINS 58 IV. J. PIERPONT MORGAN 67 V. MORIYE OGIHARA 77 VI. CHARLES LOESER, EGISTO FABBRI 88 VII. CLAUDE MONET 98 VIII. PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR 104 IX. HENRI MATISSE, PABLO PICASSO, GEORGES BRAQUE n6 X, JEAN LE ROY 13 1 XI. THE THREE BROTHERS RAYMOND DU CHAMP-VILLON, JACQUES VILLON, AND MARCEL DUCHAMP 139 XII. ODILON REDON l fy XIII. CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI, RAOUL DUFY 169 XIV. SEGONZAC, LEGER, GLEIZES, DE LA FRES NAYE 1 17 CONTENTS JCV. SIMONNE l86 XVI. THE ARMORY SHOW 192 XVII, JOHN QUINN, JOHN BUTLER YEATS, VICTOR MAUREL 204 XVIII. AFTER THE ARMORY SHOW 21 J XIX. MAURICE PRENDERGAST 223 XX. THE INDEPENDENTS 231 XXI. GEORGES ROUAULT, AMBROISE VOLLARD 239 XXII. SOME GREAT COLLECTORS 248 XXIII. ROGER FRY, JULIUS MEIER-GRAEFE, ELIE FAURE 256 XXIV. JOSEF STRZYGOWSKI, BERNARD BERENSON 268 XXV. SOME ART DEALERS 27 C xxvi. MEXICO jos CLEMENTE OROZCO, DIEGO RIVERA 28l XXVIL GINO SEVERINI, ANDR DERAIN, AM D E DE LA PATELLI RE 2OC XXVIII. WILLIAM R. VALENTINER, GISELA M, A, RICHTER, BRYSON BURROUGHS 304 XXIX, LATTER-DAY AMERICA, KENNETH HAYES MILLER, A, S, BAYLINSON J2O XXX. EPILOGUE BY WILHELM BUSCH 329 ILLUSTRATIONS in their order in the book WALTER PACK, Self-Portrait, Etching, 1938 Frontispiece A WOMAN, from the Fifty Drawings by Henri Matisse, 1919 facing p. 4 WILLIAM M. CHASE, Portrait by John S. Sargent, 1902 The Metropolitan Museum of Art 5 ROBERT HENRI, photograph by Pach Brothers, about 1906 20 YEATS AT PETITPAS painting by John Sloan, 1910, The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D. C. 21 ALBERT P. RYDER, portrait by Kenneth Hayes Miller, 191 3 52 JONAH, painting by Albert P. Ryder, The National Gallery, Washington, D. C. 53 J. PIERPONT MORGAN, photograph by Pach Brothers 68 MORIYE OGIHARA, portrait by Walter Pach, 1907 69 PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR, photograph by Joseph Durand-Ruel, about 1917 100 BATHER, painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1916 101 HENRI MATISSE, photograph by Pierre Matisse 104 PABLO PICASSO, photograph by Albert Eugene Gallatin 105 GUERNICA, mural painting by Pablo Picasso, 1937 112 RAYMOND DUCHAMP-VILLON, photograph, 1914 113 ILLUSTRATIONS THE LOVERS, by Raymond Duchamp-Vil on, 1913 facing p. 1 1 6 JACQUES VELLON, portrait by Walter Pach, 1932 117 THE PHILOSOPHER, painting by Jacques Villon, 1930, The Brooklyn Museum 148 MARCEL DUCHAMP, portrait by Walter Pach, 191 5 149 YOUNG MAN IN A TRAIN, painting by Marcel Duchamp, 1912, Collection of Walter Pach 164 PORTRAIT OF VUILLARD, drawing by Odilon Redon 165 PORTRAIT OF THE ARTISTS WIFE, by Raoul Dufy, 1930 196 A SECTION OF THE ARMORY SHOW, 1913 197 MAURICE PRENDERGAST, photograph by M. D, C. Crawford 2x2 CENTRAL PARK, 1901, water color by Maurice Prendergast, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 213 PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN, painting by William Glacfcens 244GEORGES ROUAULT, photograph by Pierre Matisse 245 AMBROISE VOLLARD, drawing by Georges Rouault, 1925 260 DIEGO RIVERA, Self-Portrait, Fresco 261 HEAD OF A WOMAN, painting by Andr Derain 292 THE Box PARTY, painting by Kenneth Haye Miller, 1936, The Whitney Museum of American Art 293 BLONDE ON CRIMSON CHAIR, painting by John Sloan, 1933 308 GIRL AT A WINDOW, painting by A, The Metropolitan Museum S. o B f ay A l r i t nson, 1934 300 QUEER THING, PAINTING