Art and Understanding — Vol. I, No. 2 — March 1930
A Phillips Publication
Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Edited by Duncan Phillips

Original 1930 Phillips Memorial Gallery art publication, complete through page 264, with an extensive selection of articles and reproductions devoted to modern and historic art.

The cover features Henri Rousseau's “The Pink Candle.”

A major article is “Modern Art, 1930” by Duncan Phillips, discussing contemporary art and the important 1929–1930 season, including the Museum of Modern Art and modern American and European artists.

Artists represented or discussed include Pablo Picasso, Georgia O'Keeffe, Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Henri Rousseau, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, John Marin, Maurice de Vlaminck, Édouard Vuillard, Charles Burchfield, Augustus Vincent Tack, Morris Kantor, Alfred Stieglitz, Walt Kuhn, Charles Demuth and many others.

Illustrated works include examples by Bonnard, Braque, Cézanne, Chardin, Gauguin, Kantor, Marin, Matisse, O'Keeffe, Picasso, Renoir, Rousseau, Van Gogh, Vuillard and others.

Also includes articles on art criticism, contemporary American art, exhibitions, subjective painting and the relationship between art and business, plus a detailed index and separate index of illustrations at the rear.

An attractive and substantial early Phillips Memorial Gallery publication documenting modern-art collecting, criticism and exhibition activity at an important moment in American art history.