Art Talk | Florine Stettheimer, A Woman’s Touch: The Mythmaker of Modern Art

Learn about Florine Stettheimer’s life of art, poetry, and adventure during the 1930s modern art era. Stettheimer socialized with and painted portraits of the leading men of the early American Modernism scene in New York, such as Albert Stieglitz, Marcel Duchamp, and Carl Van Vechten. “In her poems and in her paintings, Stettheimer described a world in which people define themselves by the things that surround them, rather than by their internal values or beliefs. Through the form and content of her work, she criticized the high-mindedness of modern art and the course of modern life.” – Susan Laxton, Art Historian, Pratt Institute Free, no registration required.