"Fifteen Miniature Works by 20th Century Artists" Exhibition
The Museum of the City of New York
This event has ended.
Fifteen miniature works of art, some by 20th-century masters such as George Bellows (1882–1925) and Gaston Lachaise (1882-1935), will go on public view—many for the first time—on March 10 at the Museum of the City of New York, near a dollhouse created by Carrie Stettheimer (1869–1944) in the early part of the 20th century. The Stettheimer Dollhouse already features 15 similarly-sized works by important artists including Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) and others; the exhibition of the 15 additional drawings and paintings—which have been maintained in the Museum’s collection since Ettie Stettheimer donated this celebrated artifact and its contents to the Museum in 1945—marks the publication of an illustrated book, The Stettheimer Dollhouse (Pomegranate, 2009), which documents the tiny mansion and its furnishings, including the art. Carrie Stettheimer, who developed the Dollhouse over the course of 19 years (from 1916 to the death of her mother in 1935), was also the sister of Florine (1871–1944), an artist whose work is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art; the three sisters and their mother hosted an important literary and artistic salon in New York City in the early part of the last century; the dollhouse is considered by some to be a work of art and others to be a stellar example of an historic toy with a strong connection to New York City.
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Schedule
from March 10, 2009 to May 03, 2009
Artist(s)
George Bellows, Gaston Lachaise, Carrie Stettheimer, Marcel Duchamp et al.