“Join us in celebrating the art and life of the American modernist Edward Fisk, who left New York City in September 1926 for a more peaceful life in Lexington and a teaching position at the University of Kentucky. In Greenwich Village and Provincetown, Massachusetts, Fisk was at the heart of the Bohemian art scene from about 1914 to the mid-1920s. Among his close friends were the avant-garde playwright Eugene O’Neill and his literary cadre, as well as the modernist artists Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and Stuart Davis, with whom he exhibited….”

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#90artworks Edward Fisk’s portraits of Mary Daniel serve as a “how-to” guide to modernist painting techniques. Fisk layers and connects areas of intense, pure color to convey a sense of depth. Even though the forms are simplified nearly to abstraction, Mary’s portraits reveal more than her appearance suggests. Read more…

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Dec 2 2017 to Apr 8 2018

In this exhibition we examine how women were perceived and represented from the early 1900s to the mid-1930s in the work of Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget, Edward Fisk, Marie Laurencin, Jaques Villon, and others.

https://finearts.uky.edu/art-museum/exhibitions/modern-women

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