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Another world : the Transcendental Painting Group

Title
Another world : the Transcendental Painting Group / Michael Duncan ; coordinating editing and essay by Scott A. Shields and additional essays by Ilene Susan Fort, Dane Rudhyar, Catherine Whitney, and MaLin Wilson-Powell.
Author
Duncan, Michael, 1953-
Publication
Sacramento, CA : Crocker Art Museum ; New York : DelMonico Books/DAP, 2021.

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Additional Authors
  • Shields, Scott A.
  • Fort, Ilene Susan
  • Rudhyar, Dane, 1895-1985
  • Whitney, Catherine L.
  • Wilson-Powell, MaLin
  • Albuquerque Museum, host institution.
  • Philbrook Museum of Art, host institution.
  • Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, host institution.
  • Crocker Art Museum, host institution.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, host institution.
Description
239 pages : color illustrations; 30 cm
Summary
Founded in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, in 1938, at a time when social realism reigned in American art, the Transcendental Painting Group (TPG) sought to promote abstract art that pursued enlightenment and spiritual illumination. The nine original members of the Transcendental Painting Group were Emil Bisttram, Robert Gribbroek, Lawren Harris, Raymond Jonson, William Lumpkins, Florence Miller Pierce, Agnes Pelton, Horace Towner Pierce and Stuart Walker. They were later joined by Ed Garman. Despite the quality of their works, these Southwest artists have been neglected in most surveys of American art, their paintings rarely exhibited outside of New Mexico. Faced with the double disadvantage of being an openly spiritual movement from the wrong side of the Mississippi, the TPG has remained a secret mostly known only to cognoscenti. Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group aims to address this slight, claiming the group's artists as crucial contributors to an alternative through-line in 20th-century abstraction, one with renewed relevance today. This volume provides a broad perspective on the group's work, positioning it within the history of modern painting and 20th-century American art. Essays examine the TPG in light of their international artistic peers; their involvement with esoteric thought and Theosophy; the group's sources in the culture and landscape of the American Southwest; and the experience of its two female members.
Alternative Title
Transcendental Painting Group
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Art.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index.
Exhibitions (note)
  • Catalog of a traveling exhibition held at the Albuquerque Museum, June 26-Sept. 26, 2021; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oct. 17, 2021-Feb. 20, 2022; Artis-Naples, the Baker Museum, Mar. 26-July 24, 2022; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Aug. 28-Nov. 20, 2022; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dec. 18, 2022-April 16, 2023.
Contents
Another world: the Transcendental Painting Group / Michael Duncan -- The Transcendental Painting Group and significant abstraction / Scott A. Shields -- Artist biographies / Michael Duncan -- Why New Mexico? : a tale of three cities / MaLin Wilson-Powell -- A more beautiful world : occult imagery in the spiritual paintings of the Transcendental Painting Group / Catherine Whitney -- Women in the desert : Agnes Pelton and Florence Miller / Ilene Susan Fort -- The Transcendental Movement in painting : excerpts from the 1938 manuscript / Dane Rudhyar.
Call Number
JQF 22-532
ISBN
  • 9781942884873
  • 1942884877
LCCN
2021931225
OCLC
1242933398
Author
Duncan, Michael, 1953- author.
Title
Another world : the Transcendental Painting Group / Michael Duncan ; coordinating editing and essay by Scott A. Shields and additional essays by Ilene Susan Fort, Dane Rudhyar, Catherine Whitney, and MaLin Wilson-Powell.
Publisher
Sacramento, CA : Crocker Art Museum ; New York : DelMonico Books/DAP, 2021.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index.
Exhibitions
Catalog of a traveling exhibition held at the Albuquerque Museum, June 26-Sept. 26, 2021; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oct. 17, 2021-Feb. 20, 2022; Artis-Naples, the Baker Museum, Mar. 26-July 24, 2022; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Aug. 28-Nov. 20, 2022; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dec. 18, 2022-April 16, 2023.
Added Author
Shields, Scott A., editor, writer of added text.
Fort, Ilene Susan, writer of added text.
Rudhyar, Dane, 1895-1985, writer of added text.
Whitney, Catherine L., writer of added text.
Wilson-Powell, MaLin, writer of added text.
Albuquerque Museum, host institution.
Philbrook Museum of Art, host institution.
Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, host institution.
Crocker Art Museum, host institution.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 22-532
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