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Nahum Tschacbasov
Woman with Red Flowers
circa 1930

Name: Woman with Red Flowers
Brand: Nahum Tschacbasov
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The following has been provided by Leonard Barton, the artists' stepson. 1899 Nahum Tschacbasov, the second oldest of nine children, is born in Baku, a town on the Caspian Sea, in Azerbaijan, Russia. 1905 His father, Stephan, emigrates from Russia, settles in Chicago, and starts a printing business using a new family name, Licterman. 1907 Tschacbasov, with his mother Sophie and brothers and sisters, joins his father in Chicago just as the financial crash causes the failure of his father's business. Tschacbasov grows up in the Chicago slums. 1913 He leaves school at the age of thirteen and takes a succession of jobs to help support the family. He attends night school for one year, studying electrical engineering. 1918 He enlists in the Navy and serves as an electrician at Scapa Flow, off the northern coast of Scotland. The light of the North Sea impresses him greatly. "Nothing could compare with the Scapa Flow. My feeling for color in my work has drawn from this palette of the Northern Skies. The color in the North made me lose my deep feeling of depression." 1919-29 Returning to night school for three years, he earns a degree in business. Becoming an accountant and later an efficiency expert, he eventually forms his own successful business. He marries Esther Liss, who bears two children before the marriage ends in divorce. 1929 Tschacbasov marries Esther Sorokin. During this time, he has a deepening interest in drawing and painting, which he has taken up in response to pressures of work and life. His first encounters with modern art are the works of Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Rouault. 1931 Esther gives birth to his daughter Sondra, the subject of many of his paintings. 1932-33 Tschacbasov moves for a short time to New York City in order to be in a modern art center and then to Paris, where he adopts the name Tschacbasov, an anagram of different family names. He studies with Leopold Gottlieb for eight months, then with Marcel Gromaire, who teaches him pictorial structure, and briefly with Fernand Leger. Working in his studio on the edge of Montmartre and later in the Hotel de Sante in Montparnasse, he produces a large body of work, retaining fifty paintings. After trips to North Africa, Spain, and the Balearic Islands, he travels often from Paris to New York City, where he spends six months painting a series of Depression-inspired pictures after finding that his American business has gone bankrupt in his absence. 1934 In Paris, Galerie Zak exhibits landscapes from his trip to Majorca in the first one-man exhibition of Tschacbasov paintings; Salon de Tuileries also exhibits his work. His savings exhausted, he returns to New York via Tunisia in the midst of the Depression. 1935 Living on Pineapple Street in Brooklyn Heights, Tschacbasov works on the WPA Federal Arts Project, Easel Division, where he meets other artists and becomes politically involved. His works are shown at Galerie Secession with those of Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and other modernist and expressionist painters. Tschacbasov, Rothko, Gottlieb, Joseph Solman and others from Galerie Secession form a group called The Ten combining common aims of social consciousness with an expressionist and abstract style. Themes of social injustice are more dominant in Tschacbasov's work than in that of others of The Ten, as he draws on his own childhood experiences of the harsh realities of immigrant life in industrial Chicago. In the summer, a one-man exhibition of his non-objective paintings is held at Galerie Secession, and in December, Montross Gallery in New York City holds the first exhibition of The Ten, including two works by Tschacbasov, "Handout" and "Three Graces." 1936 In January, an exhibition of The Ten is held at Municipal Art Galleries in New York City, and later in the fall an exhibition, also of The Ten, is held at Galerie Bonaparte in Paris. Tschacbasov, now living at 9 Willow Street in Brooklyn, participates during February as a member of the National Executive Committee in the first meeting of the American Artists, Congress, an organization for the promotion of government subsidies for artists. 1936-43 He has five one-man exhibitions at ACA Gallery in New York City and participates in five group exhibitions. His paintings which focus on themes of social satire during this period include "Thanksgiving", "Supreme Court", and "Little Red Schoolhouse". 1936-38 Among the paintings exhibited in the "Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting" at the Whitney Museum of American Art are Tschacbasov's "Deportation", "Clinic", "Friday Night", "Harbor Sunset", and "The Matriarch". 1936-37 Tschacbasov is appointed business manager of Art Front Magazine, a publication associated with the Artists' Union and focusing on both aesthetic issues and economic reforms of benefit to artists. He withdraws from The Ten as a result of disagreements arising from his desire to promote the group on a platform of social criticism. 1937 Tschacbasov is now living at 1 West 21st Street in Manhattan. 1938-39 He moves to 31 East 21st Street. 1939 His circle of friends at this time include Philip Evergood, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, David Burliuk, William Gropper, the Soyer brothers, Robert Gwathmey, Marsden Hartley, and Max Weber. Due to cut-backs in WPA funding, he teaches at his 38 West 22nd Street studio and at the American Artists' School. On the faculty are David Burliuk and the Soyer brothers, as well as Elaine de Kooning and other artists with similar aesthetic and social points of view. Personal and artistic crises lead to his entering into Jungian psychoanalysis, which provides new impetus and direction to his painting. Under the influence of analysis, he starts to write portions of a surrealistic autobiography, The Moon is My Uncle. His paintings, "Refugees" and "Friday Night" are shown with works by Avery, Burliuk, and DeHirsh Margules in a group exhibition at Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. In September, the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts focuses on themes of social criticism in an exhibition entitled "The World Today", curated by Elizabeth McCausland, which includes Tschacbasov's, "Little Red School House". 1940 Tschacbasov takes up photography. Photographing the works of friends and other artists, he builds a collection of color slides which serves as a foundation for the American Library Color Slide Company, an archives which continues to be of service in art history education. His painting, "Portrait of Sondra" is exhibited in the "Second Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings" with works by the Soyer brothers, John Sloan, and others at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. 1941 Tschacbasov exhibits at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia. 1942 Now living at 1 Christopher Street in New York City and painting in his studio at 30 East 14th Street, Tschacbasov participates in "Artists for Victory", an exhibition of contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibiting his painting "Deportation". 1943 Tschacbasov's painting style changes from social criticism to themes that are personal and symbolic, leading to a break with the ACA Gallery. He spends part of the year living and working in Oklahoma City, where nature and the landscapes of Oklahoma serve as subjects for his painting. In the 54th Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture held at the Art Institute of Chicago, his painting, "Deportation" is exhibited. He re-locates his studio and residence to the Chelsea Hotel, a West 23rd Street haven for artists, where he remains throughout the rest of his life. 1944 Tschacbasov works at Stanley William Hayter's printmaking workshop, Atelier 17, a center for surrealist ideas. He adopts the principle espoused by Hayter of automatism in which one, following the flow of a line, would be led to mythical images which he could then shape. Tschacbasov finds that an inner world of images and symbols of the unconscious opens up to him. This new affirmative mood of his painting, expressing the surrealist view of the "strangeness of reality" is well received by the public and critics. 1944 Tschacbasov exhibits in the spring at the Cincinnati Museum in Ohio. His painting, "Garden of Eden", is included in another exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond along with paintings by Joseph Stella, Max Weber, and the Soyer brothers. In the summer, he exhibits at the 55th Annual Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. in the fall as well as at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, where his painting, "Lady with Mirror" is included. In December, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City acquires his painting, "Deportation". A one-man exhibition of his works is held at the Arts and Crafts Club in New Orleans. 1945-46 Children's Holiday Circus of Modern Art, at Museum of Modern Art, December 4, 1945-January 6, 1946. Works sent by Perls Galleries. "The Aquarium," "Little Girls' Wonderland" 1944-48 Tschacbasov has four one-man exhibitions at Perls Gallery in New York City and participates in three group exhibitions. 1945 His painting, "The Admiral" is exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. Critic Harriet Loveman chooses his painting, "Sondra and the Solar System" for "The Critics' Choice of Contemporary American Painting" exhibition held at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania exhibits his painting, "The Amber Necklace". 1945-51 While teaching at the Art Students' League, his surrealist approach and encouragement of freedom of expression exert a strong influence on students and other painters. 1946 Encyclopedia Britannica "Book of the Year", which assesses the highlights of the year's artistic events, notes Tschacbasov's one-man exhibition at Perls Gallery, stating that "the fantastic fairy-tale world... kindred in conception to that of Marc Chagall, showed an obvious artistic superiority of the Russo-American over the Russo-French painter." At this time, themes in his work include myth and archaic history. In January, he exhibits at Durand-Ruel Gallery in New York. Tschacbasov participates with painter Darrell Austin in February in a joint traveling exhibition organized by Perls Gallery and held at the Vigeveno Gallery in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum ' the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York exhibits his painting, "The Bride". In the summer, Tschacbasov exhibits works at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and at the San Francisco Museum of Art. The Art Institute of Chicago exhibits his painting, "Twilight". 1947 After producing two series of etchings in five intensive months and completing his long psychoanalysis, a new freedom emerges, culminating in his "signature style". At the Art Institute of Chicago, his painting, "The Flying Fish", is shown at an exhibition entitled "Surrealist American Art", while his "Mother and Child" travels abroad in a State Department Collection tour of American paintings Tschacbasov wins the Pepsi-Cola Prize. His painting, "Rabbi in White" is shown in a group exhibition, "American Artists for Israel", at the Jewish Museum. 1947-48 Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art, at Museum of Modern Art, December 2, 1947-January 4, 1948. Works sent by Perls Galleries. "The Diver," "The Gorilla" 1948 Tschacbasov begins a development of style which he terms abstract surrealism, a fusion of cubist forms with psychic imagery. Throughout the fifties he is to move toward greater abstraction of forms and linear structuring and organization of space. Carl Zigrosser, curator of the Philadelphia Museum, cites his etching "The Patriarch" as one of the year's best in "Prints of the Year", in Art News Annual. In the Spring, he exhibits at the National Academy of Design in New York City, and his painting, "Substance and Sustenance" is shown at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. In the summer, he exhibits at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio and acquires a house and studio in Woodstock, New York, where he establishes the Tschacbasov School of Fine Arts, all of which he maintains until 1956. 1948-49 Children's Holiday Fair of Modern Art, at Museum of Modern Art, December 8, 1948-January 16, 1949. Works sent by Perls Galleries."The Crocodile," "The Juggler," "Young Birds" 1949 The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City acquires "The Clown" and "The Matriarch". Tschacbasov exhibits at the University of Illinois in Urbana. 1950 A one-man exhibition of Tschacbasov work is held at the John Heller Gallery in New York City, and another exhibition is held at the University of Illinois in Urbana. 1951 John Heller Gallery in New York City has another one-man exhibition of his work. 1953 Again, the John Heller Gallery in New York City has a one-man exhibition of his work. 1955 A one-man exhibition of 25 paintings of Tschacbasov plus his etchings and ceramics is held at the Jewish Museum in New York City, and the University of Illinois in Urbana has another exhibition of his work. 1957 Tschacbasov works are exhibited again at the University of Illinois in Urbana. 1950's - While Tschacbasov continues his involvement with painting and etching, he also works in 1970's ceramics. He teaches in this medium for several years at the Chelsea Hotel. 1950's - Exhibitions of his paintings and etchings are held at colleges and universities throughout 1980's the United States, including the University of Maine at Orono, the University of Georgia, the University of Texas, Willimantic State College in Connecticut, and Lycoming College in Pennsylvania. 1961 Esther, his second wife, dies. 1965 A one-man exhibition of his recent etchings is held at La Jolla Museum in California. Tschacbasov begins to collect African, Pre-Columbian, and Oceanic Art. 1966 Tschacbasov marries Irene Zevon on August 31. 1970 He acquires a beach house in Amagansett, Long Island and subsequently purchases a second, larger house in which he maintains a studio in East Hampton. 1974 A one-man exhibition of Tschacbasov works is held at Pace University in New York City. 1976 Tschacbasov participates in a group show at Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York. 1980 Guild Hall Museum invites him to participate in another group show in East Hampton. 1981 Southhampton College Press publishes "Machinery of Fright", a compilation of surrealist poems, drawings, and etchings of Tschacbasov with an introduction by Anna Balakian. 1983 Tschacbasov participates in a group exhibition entitled "The Expressionist Vision, A Central Theme in New York in the 1940's", at Hillwood Art Gallery in C.W. Post Center at Long Island University. Paintings exhibited are "Landscape and Trees", "Flower Port", "The Four Muses", and "The Matriarch". Other artists exhibited include Max Weber, Marsden Hartley, Abraham Rattner, David BurliUk, and Jack Levine. 1984 Tschacbasov dies on February 18 in New York City. BIBLIOGRAPHY Writings by Tschacbasov "Creative Art and Psychological Blocks," Art Students League Quarterly, Winter 1947, p. 4. incl. 2 illus. "Fear of Influences," The Art of the Artist: Theories and Techniques of Art by the Artists Themselves, ed. Arthur Zaidenberg. New York, Crown Publishers, 1951. "The Moon is My Uncle," Chelsea 33, 2:50, September 1974. Excerpts from unpublished autobiography, p. 7-19; incl. illus., cover and pp. 20, 56, 92, 115, 172. Machinery of Fright: Poems by the Painter Tschacbasov. Southampton, N.Y., Southampton College Press, Long Island University, 1982. 160 p. incl. illus. 19 drawings and etchings; cover illus. Introduction by Anna Balakian. "Mask of Infinity" and "Tired Bird of Night's Dreams" (two poems), HAPA, Number 3,Fall 1983, p. 65-66. "The Artist and the Canvas," Numero, date unknown. Essay on ceramics, untitled, undated, ms.: 10 p. PERIODICALS Salmon, Andre. Review of Galerie Zak exhibition, Les Arts, October, 1934. Fegdal, Charles. Review of Galerie Zak exhibition, La Semaine A Paris, November 2, 1934. Review of A.C.A. Gallery exhibition "Members of the Artists Union," Art Front, February, 1936. illus. Review of Whitney Museum "3rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," The Art Digest, Vol. XI, #5, December 1, 1936. Mumford, Lewis, Review of one-man exhibition at ACA Gallery, The New Yorker, January 30, 1937. illus. Review of one-man exhibition at A.C.A. Gallery, Art News, 36:19, February 5, 1938, p. 24. "Pittsfield Sees Art in Our Crazy Times," The Art Digest, 13:20, September 1, 1939, p. 12. Review of Berkshire Museum exhibition "The World Today," illus. Weiskopf, F.C. "Tante Marie," Direction, 2:6, October 1939. Illustration for story. L[ane], J[ames]. "Tschacbasov's Gaudy and Vigorous Work of Varied Appeal," Art News, 38:26, April 27, 1940. Review of one-man exhibition at A.C.A. Gallery. Review of one-man exhibition at A.C.A. Gallery, Cue Magazine, 9:18, April 27, 1940. Review of one-man exhibition at A.C.A. Gallery, The Art Digest, 14:19, May 1, 1940, p. 34. illus. Review of one-man exhibition at A.C.A. Gallery, publication unknown, c. April-May 1940. Review of one-man exhibition at A.C.A. Gallery, The Art Digest, 16:12, May 1, 1942. illus. "Our Box Score of the Critics," Art News, 41:23, May 15, 1942. Excerpts of reviews of one-man show at A.C.A. Gallery by New York Times, Herald Tribune, Sun, and World Telegram. Review of one-man exhibition at A.C.A. Gallery, The Art Digest, 18:22, December 15, 1943. illus. Review of A.C.A. exhibition,.Art News, 42:30, December 15, 1943. "Walkowitz: He Poses for 100 Different Artists and Gets 100 Different Likenesses," Life Magazine, March 1944. Article on Brooklyn Museum exhibition of portraits of Walkowitz by his friends. "Project," The New Yorker, March 4, 1944. Article on Walkowitz. Salpeter, Harry. "Nahum Tschacbasov's Success Story," Esquire, May 1944. Groth, John. "Letter from Paris," The Art Digest, December 1, 1944Y P. 9. Segy, Ladislav. "The Jew in Fine Arts," The American Hebrew, December 15, 1944, p. 10. Review of Perls Galleries Group Show, Art News, 43:17, December 15-31, 1944. Riley, Maude. Review of Perls Galleries exhibition, "Tschacbasov, Recent Paintings," The Art Digest, 19:11, March 1, 1945. illus. F[rost], R[osamond]. "The Liberation of Nahum Tschacbasov," ' Art News, 44:2, March 1-14, 1945. 3 illus. plus cover illus. in color. See also "Editor's Letters" in Art News, April 1-14, 1945 and April 15-30, 1945. Offin, Charles Z. "Color Fantasia: Tschacbasov Uses Paint in a Spirit of Adventure," Pictures on Exhibit, 6:6, March, 1945. Review of Perls Galleries exhibition, "Tschacbasov, Recent Paintings." illus. Valenti, Alfredo. Review of Perls Galleries exhibition, "Tschacbasov, Recent Paintings," periodical unknown, C. March, 1945. "Something Lit Up," Newsweek, c. March 5, 1945, p. 90. illus. Article on the artist, prompted by Perls Galleries exhibition. "Critic's Choice," publication unknown, March 15, 1945. Listing of artists selected by art critics for Cincinnati Museum's American Annual. Hilda Loveman, art critic for Newsweek, chose Tschacbasov. Article on Cincinnati Museum's American Annual, Art News, c. March, 1945. Frost, Rosamund (sic). "The Corcoran Carries On: Three-City Invitation Show," Art News, 44:4, April 1-14, 1945. Riley, Maude. "Blanch's Collection of Modern Manners," The Art Digest, May 15, 1945. Review of Arnold Blanch exhibition, referring to influence of Tschacbasov and other artists on Blanch's work. Riley, Maude. "Perls' Pearls Reassembled, " The Art Digest, June 1, 194 5. Review of Perls Galleries exhibition, "Season in Review." "The Met Buys Tschacbasov," The Art Digest, November 1, 1 9 4 5 . Article on Metropolitan Museum acquisition of "Deportation." Review of Perls Galleries Group Show, Art News, 44:16, December 1-14, 1945. illus. Reinhhardt, Ad. "How to Look at Modern Art in America," Life Magazine, c. 1945. Article on Durand-Ruel Gallery exhibition, "Modern Religious Painting," Town and Country, January, 1946. illus. Review of Perls Galleries one-man exhibition, periodical unknown, October 14, 1946. illus. Review of Perls Galleries one-man exhibition, Art News, 45:8, October, 1946. illus. Reed, Judith Kaye. "Tschacbasov Paints a Happier World," The Art Digest, October 15, 1946. Review of Perls Galleries one-man exhibition. illus. Offin, Charles. Review of Perls Galleries one-man exhibition, Pictures on Exhibit, 9:1, October, 1946. illus. Sunley, Robert. "Tschacbasov," Critique, 1:1, October, 1946. Review of Perls Galleries one-man exhibition. illus. "Your Money Bought These Paintings," Look Magazine, February 18, 1947. Article on State Department Collection Tour. illus. Review of Perls Galleries one-man exhibition, The Art Digest, 21:15, May 15, 1947. "Prints at Perls," Art News, 46:44, June, 1947. "The prints of the year," Art News Annual 1948, 46:9, November, 1947, p. 83. Introduction by Carl Zigrosser. illus., P. 90 (etching chosen as one of the "prints of the year"). Review of Perls Galleries one-man exhibition, Art News, February, 1948. "Emotional Approach of a Romantic," The Art Digest, 22:14, February 15, 1948. Review of Perls Galleries one-man exhibition. "New Paintings on View Now At Rudolph Galleries," Woodstock Ulster County News and Kingston Leader, c. 1950's. illus. "Art News of the Year," Art News Annual, 20, 1951, p. 178. Report on open letter signed by many artists including Tschacbasov, on a forthcoming national exhibition to be held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Breuning, Margaret."Insistent Design," Art News, 50 : 2 , c. April, 1951. Review of,John Heller Gallery exhibition. M[ ], G[ ] T[ ] Review of John Heller Gallery Exhibition, The Tr-t bigest, April 15, 1951. illus. Review of John Heller Gallery Exhibition, The Art Digest, 27:18, April, 1953. Review of John Heller Gallery Exhibition, Art News, 52:42, April, 1953. Review of Jewish Museum Tschacbasov Exhibition, Art News, 55:53, March, 1956. Jewish Currents, October, 1964, cover illus. Howard, Sonya. "My Teacher, Tschacbasov," Number 1, May, 1968, p. 15. Monroe, Gerald. "Art Front," Studio International, 188:969, September, 1974, p. 66-70. O[ffin), C[harles] Z. Review of Cancelled Genes,-s Galleries Exhibition,, Pictures on Exhibit, January-February, 1977 Shepley, John. Tschacbasov: The Artist as Leviathan. Unpublished monograph, September, 1978. Shepley, John. Tschacbasov at 80, unpublished monograph, April, 1980 . Dudar, Helen. "It's home sweet home for geniuses, real or would-be," Smithsonian, December, 1983, p. 85 (Tschacbasov mentioned on p. 102). Bushyeager, Peter. Review of Luise Ross Gallery one-man exhibition, The New Manhattan Review,, 2:27, May 6, 1987. illus. Cohrs, Timothy. "Nahum Tschacbasov, 1899-1984: A Reconsideration," Arts Magazine, October, 1987. Cohrs, Timothy. "Image to Abstraction: The Fifties, 20th Century Masters," Arts Magazine, 62:4, December, 1987. Travis, Isabelle Desvaux. "Avant-Garde in New York 1935-1939: "The Ten." Abstract of unpublished excerpt of Master's Thesis presented at llth Annual Whitney Symposium on American Art, April 25, 1988. About Nahum Tschacbasov Born: 1899 - Baku, Azerbaijan, Russia Died: 1984 Known for: mod figure, landscape, ceramics

Creator:
Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984, American)
Creation Year:
circa 1930
Dimensions:
Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)
Medium:
Oil
Movement Style:
Modern
Period:
Mid-20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Graton, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU31021901523

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Ethelyn Hurd Woodlock
"Don t Cry Long" Abstracted and Distorted Self-Portrait, One Crying Eye, 1966

Artis Lane
"Baby Jane Holzer" Female Portrait, Golden Green Colors, Celebrity, Intimate, 1970

Artis Lane
"Eva Gabor" Female Portrait, Golden Colors, Movie Star, 1970

Anthony Palliser
Helena