ALAN ROSENBERG'S OTHER SITES:

KARL PRIEBE

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Karl Priebe (1914-1976) was invariably described by art critics as a fantasist. The strange moods and odd juxtapositions of people, animals and objects in his paintings bring his art into alignment with the surrealism of Salvador Dali, the neo-romanticism of Christian Berard, the magic realism of Frida Kahlo and the metaphysical painting of Giorgio De Chirico. All of those labels are at least partly applicable to Priebe and similarly describe the works of the artists he was close with, aesthetically, geographically and personally, and with whom he formed a small but compelling circle of Midwest artists working in the marvelous mode.

TIGER MORSE

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Joan “Tiger” Morse (1932-1972) has been described as “La Passionaria of the dropout subculture,” and it is true that she is mainly known today for dropping out. Before leaving the uptown New York fashion world behind she brought a counterculture flair to the women of New York high society, becoming one of the inventors of the "downtown" sensibility."

EDWARD JOHN STEVENS Jr.

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When Edward John Stevens, Jr. (1923-1988) was featured on the cover of Life magazine in 1950 he was only 27 years old. He was chosen for the cover as an outstanding representative of the up-and-coming artists whose works were shown in an article titled “Nineteen Young American Artists.” At that time Stevens had already had one-man museum exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art (1948) and the Honolulu Academy of Art (1947) as well as six one-man shows at the Weyhe Gallery in Manhattan. He went on to have 24 one-man gallery exhibitions and his works were acquired by many museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago.