“It’s very interesting being legendary, when you can’t even make a living and the public’s never heard of you,” artist and poet Florine Stettheimer once mused. Stettheimer, currently enjoying a ...

Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944) may be the most important Modernist painter you’ve never heard of. A member of New York’s elite artistic circle between the First and Second World Wars, the painter and ...

This is a good time to take Florine Stettheimer seriously. The occasion is a retrospective of the New York artist, poet, designer, and Jazz Age saloniste, at the Jewish Museum, titled “Florine ...

When Florine Stettheimer died in 1944, at the age of 72, the New York artist, poet, and salonnière, was still putting the final touches on The Cathedrals of Art, the last in a series of four ...

Florine Stettheimer, “Nude Self-Portrait” (ca. 1915), oil on canvas, 48 1/4 x 68 1/4 inches (courtesy Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, gift of the Estate ...

Florine Stettheimer, “Nude Self Portrait” (ca. 1915) (Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York, gift of the Estate of Ettie Stettheimer, 1967, all images ...

“Fame is a most uncertain garment,” art critic Henry McBride wrote in 1946, in a catalogue essay for an exhibition of work by an old artist friend. “Yet fame, apparently, is what the Museum of Modern ...

Florine Stettheimer’s Asbury Park South, 1920. (Courtesy of the University of Chicago Press / Collection of Halley K. Harrisburg and Michael Rosenfeld, New York, New York) Some biographies not only ...

Those of us who love the work of Florine Stettheimer owe a debt to Barbara Bloemink. The art historian mounted her first Stettheimer exhibit at the Katonah Museum in 1993, which led two years later to ...

"She's soooo great," Andy Warhol told Mark Lancaster when he went to work for Warhol in 1964. "Florine Stettheimer is my favorite artist." At the time, Stettheimer – whose work is currently the ...