Background
Pollock, Lindsay was born in 1971.
(Tells the story of the trailblazing art dealer Edith Halp...)
Tells the story of the trailblazing art dealer Edith Halpert, set against the backdrop of Manhattan in the forties and fifties. This work delves into the passion and power of this remarkable woman, revealing how a penniless Russian Jewish immigrant made it her mission to fight for American art and artists.
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( In an era when American artists didn't count and women ...)
In an era when American artists didn't count and women were expected to stay home, Edith Gregor Halpert burst onto the fledgling New York gallery scene, defying all cultural and societal rules. In 1926, Halpert, just twenty-six years old, opened one of the first art galleries in Greenwich Village and set about turning the art world upside down. Her Downtown Gallery, which she ran for forty-four years, laid the groundwork for the art market's modern era, and its aggressive promotion and sales tactics. Halpert cultivated the most illustrious art collectors of the day, invented the market for folk art, and pushed the first group of American artists working in a modern vernacular into the history books, including Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ben Shahn, and Arthur Dove. Despite all this, Edith Halpert herself has been lost to history. Until now. In The Girl with the Gallery, journalist Lindsay Pollock brings Halpert and her era vividly back to life, tracing the story of how this remarkable woman, who started out a penniless Jewish immigrant, made it her mission to fight for American art and artists. Illlustrated with eight pages of full color photographs, this is biography at its finest, an unforgettable story of class, money, vanity, jealousy, and tragic loss.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586485121/?tag=2022091-20
Pollock, Lindsay was born in 1971.
Bachelor in History, Barnard College, 1993. Master of Arts in Journalism, Columbia University.
Writer ARTnews, Art & Auction, The Art Newspaper. Columnist New York Sun. Cultural news reporter Bloomberg News, 2005—2011.
Editor-in-chief Art in America, since 2011. Founder, blogger Art Market Views, since 2009.
( In an era when American artists didn't count and women ...)
(Tells the story of the trailblazing art dealer Edith Halp...)
(English language)