CREATIVE ART: February 1932

A Magazine of Fine and Applied Art

Diego Rivera | Modigliani | Rembrandt Inc. | Modern California Architecture: R. M. Schindler, Richard Neutra and J. R. Davidson | Hugo Billings Mural | Gertrude Stein Thoughts, etc.

Henry McBride [Editor]: CREATIVE ART [A Magazine of Fine and Applied Art]. New York: Albert and Charles Boni, Inc., Volume 10, Number 2: February 1932. Original edition. Printed wrappers. [82] pp. All color inserts present. Illustrated articles and period advertisments. Cover art by Herman Trunk. Wrappers soiled and worn, but a very good copy.

8.25 x 11.5 vintage magazines with 82 pages of editorial content plus vintage advertisements. “Creative Art” meaning architecture, painting, drawing, furniture design, interior decoration and the decorative arts! Given the cast of characters -- 1932 stands as a fertile year for the twentieth century arts and for art deco in particular. Creative Art became an American Magazine in 1932—after a clean split from "The Studio" of London—able to puruse and promote a vision of domestic art in all of its many manifestations, from painting to photo-murals.

Contents include:

• Color Plate: Modigliani.
• The Palette Knife by Henry McBride. Frozen Assets by Diego Rivera, fresco for the MoMA exhibition, Zapata, and Sugar Cane fresco, three images in all.
• Modigliani The Fated: Maurice Sachs
• Rembrandt Inc.: Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.
• Modern California Architecture: Pauline Gibling. Five page article featuring work by R. M. Schindler [3 images], Richard Neutra, and J. R. Davidson.
• A Composer Looks At Painting: T. Carl Whitmer. Images by Alexander Brook, Cézanne, Lurçat, Braque, Joseph Levin, Max Weber, and a mural by Hugo Billings, etc.
• Pen Portraits: Frank Crowninshield: Rita Wellman
• Thoughts On A Contemporary American Feeling: Gertrude Stein
• The American Society Of Painters, Sluptors And Gravers: Guy Péne Du Bois. Artwork by Ernest Fiene, Florine Stettheimer, Paul Burlin, Max Weber, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, etc.
• News and Gossip featured a gossiy graf about Diego Rivera’s lecture at the John Reed Club, where, when “Rivera’s petite by peppery little wife almost had a fist fight [with Communist hecklers]”.
• Around the Galleries. Work by Walt Kuhn, Alexander Brook, Salvado Dali at Julien Levy, Vincent Canadé, Morris Kantor, Milton Avery, Lena Gurr, Leon CArroll, Mildred CRooks, William Yarrow, Everett Henry, etc.
• Departments include Calendar of Exhibitions, Current Events in the Art World, Review of Books and The Art Market
• Includes vintage advertisements

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