Jonathan Fineberg – The Postman Did It – Children’s Art and the Avant-garde

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Images Fig.1: Hans Hofmann, Art News, no. 3 (December 1954), cover. Fig.2: Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Fanciullo con Pupazzetta (portrait of a boy with his stick-figure drawing), circa 1520 oil on wood, 37 x 29 cm, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona.. Fig.3: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Christ Preaching (La Petite Tombe), circa 1652, etching, 15.5 x 20.7 cm, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Fig.4: Gustave Courbet, The Painter’s Studio, a real allegory describing a seven year period of my artistic life, 1855, oil on canvas, 361 x 598 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Fig. 5: Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: The Arcadian Pastoral, 1836, oil on canvas, 100 x 161 cm, New York Historical Society, New York. Fig. 6: Pieter Janszoon Saenredam, Interior of the Buurkerck, Utrecht, 1644, detail, oil on wood, 60 x 50 cm, National Gallery, London. Fig. 7: Sir David Wilkie, The Blind Fiddler, 1806, oil on panel, 57.8 x 79.4 cm, The Tate Gallery, London. Fig. 8: Ernst Meissonier, Portrait of the Sergeants, 1874, oil on canvas, 73 x 62 cm, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg. Fig. 9: Ernst Meissonier, Portrait of the Sergeants, 1874, detail. Fig. 10: E.-L. Kirchner, January 1884 (age 3), Railroad Train, pencil on paper, 16.7 x 22.7 cm, Private Collection, Switzerland. Fig. 11: E.-L. Kirchner, Railroad, 1926-7, woodcut, 8.3 x 8.9 cm, private collection, Switzerland. Fig. 12: Pablo Picasso, Horse, Study for Guernica (IV), Paris, 1 May 1937, pencil on blue paper, 21 x 26 cm, Museu del Prado, Madrid on deposit in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Fig. 13: Le Corbusier, “Pavillon des temps nouveaux,” 1937, L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui (8 September 1937), from Le Corbusiere: Oeuvre Plastique peintures et dessins architecture (Paris: Éditions Albert Morancé, 1938), plate 36, showing a mural enlarged by Asger Jorn from a child’s drawing of harvesters, 1937. Time did not permit us to clear rights for the Matisse images below, but they can be found in the 1997 publication of The Innocent Eye and in the standard books on Matisse: Henri Matisse, Woman on a High Stool (Germaine Reynal), early 1914, oil on canvas, 147 x 95.5 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Florene M. Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx. Henri Matisse, The Young Sailor II, Collioure, summer 1906, oil on canvas, 101.5 x 83 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Jacques & Natasha Gelman Collection. Henri Matisse, The Pink Onions, Collioure, summer 1906, oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm, Statens Museum for Konst, Kopenhagen. Henri Matisse, Portrait of Marguerite, 1906-7, oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm, Musée Picasso, Paris, formerly collection of Pablo Picasso. 151
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