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Burgoyne A Diller

Burgoyne A. Diller (1906 - 1965) was active/lived in New York.  Burgoyne Diller is known for Geometric abstract painting, sculpture, murals.

BURGOYNE DILLER (1906-1965)

Recognized as the first American painter to embrace the tenets of Neo-Plasticism, Burgoyne Diller made an important contribution to the development of non-objective art in the United States.  Working in a hard-edged geometric style, he produced paintings, drawings, and collages that paved the way for the development of American Minimalism during the 1960s and 70s.

Born in New York City in 1906, Diller began painting and drawing as a teenager growing up in Battle Creek, Michigan.  Later, while attending Michigan State University in East Lansing on an athletic scholarship, he made weekend visits to the Art Institute of Chicago, where he familiarized himself with Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting.  He was especially drawn to the landscapes and still lives of Paul Cézanne, who modeled color to create structure and volume.

In 1929, Diller moved to Manhattan and enrolled at the Art Students League, where his teachers   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12426 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  85
Magazine References:  6

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6 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Burgoyne A. Diller
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Artist A Permanent Record of What Has Been May 2004 Koob, Pamela N Yes
ARTFORUM Reviews November 2001 Soutif, Daniel No
ARTnews Reviews March 1998 Editors, ARTnews Yes
American Art Review Two Centuries of American Drawing December 1997 Dreishpoon, Douglas Yes
Art & Auction Eye on American October 1997 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
Architectural Digest Ad-At-Large November 1995 Editors, Architectural Digest Yes
85 Book References for Burgoyne A. Diller
Year Author Title Pages Color
2008 Berman, Avis (Hollis Taggart Galleries) Order and Intuition American Abstraction From The Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, 1913-1954
(Exhibition catalog)
120 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Peters, Lisa Two Hundred Years of American Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)
111 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1996 Demetrion, James T (Introduction) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art 166 Yes
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1992 Levin, Gail/Marianne Lorenz Theme & Improvisation Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde
(Exhibition catalog)
236 No
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1991 Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook (of the Collection) 161 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)
230 Yes
1989 Auping, Michael Abstraction, Geometry, Painting Geometric Abstract Painting in America since 1945
(Exhibition catalog)
232 Yes
1989 Monery, Jean-Paul Leon Polk Smith
(Exhibition catalog)
126 Yes
1989 Rotzler, Willy Constructive Concepts:A History Constructive Art from Cubism to the Present 332 Yes
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul 20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art 176 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Editor, Washburn Gallery 50 Years Ago: WPA/AAA 32 Yes
1986 Rose, Barbara American Painting: The Twentieth Century (Second edition) 170 Yes
1985 Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
(Exhibition catalog)
314 Yes
1985 Ashton, Dore (Editor) Twentieth Century Artists on Art 302 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1983 Brown, Milton W 100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C 240 Yes
1983 Contreras, Belasario R Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art 253 No
1983 Guilbaut, Serge How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art 277 No
1983 Lane, John R and Susan Larsen Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944
(Exhibition catalog)
256 Yes
1982 Ashton, Dore American Art Since 1945 224 Yes
1982 Contemporary Arts Museum The Americans/The Collage
(Exhibition catalog)
143 Yes
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)
213 No
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)
301 Yes
1981 Cummings, Paul Drawing Acquisitions, 1978-1981 Whitney Museum of American Art 64 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Whitney Museum Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney 136 No
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Selz, Peter 2 Jahrzehnte amerikanische Maler 1920-1940
(Exhibition catalog)
156 Yes
1979 Springfield Library & Museum Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections 216 Yes
1979 Troy, Nancy J Mondrian And Neo-Plasticism in America
(Exhibition catalog)
64 No
1978 Whitney Museum American Art 1934-1956 Selections from Whitney Museum
(Exhibition catalog)
148 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Brown, Milton W The Modern Spirit American Painting 1908-1935
(Exhibition catalog)
96 Yes
1977 Prown, Jules/Barbara Rose American Painting From the Colonial Period to the Present 277 Yes
1976 Cummings, Paul American Drawings The 20th Century 207 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Wasserman, Emily The American Scene: Early Twentieth Century (Lamplight Collection of American Art) 91 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1973 Johnson, Charlotte Buel Contemporary Art Exploring It's Roots and Development 96 Yes
1973 O'Connor, Francis V (editor) Art for the Millions Essays by...Artists...WPA Federal Art Project 317 No
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1973 Van Der Marck, Jan American Art Third Quarter Century
(Exhibition catalog)
138 Yes
1973 Wilmerding, John The Genius of American Painting 352 Yes
1972 Hunter, Sam American Art of the 20th Century 487 Yes
1972 Sandler, Irving (intro) Contemporary Art 1942-72 479 Yes
1972 Walker Art Center Burgoyne Diller
(Exhibition catalog)
0 No
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1970 Rose, Barbara American Painting The Twentieth Century 116 No
1970 Time-Life Books, Editors American Painting 1900-1970 192 Yes
1969 Geldzahler, Henry New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970
(Exhibition catalog)
494 Yes
1968 Agee, William C The 1930's Painting & Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)
80 Yes
1968 Albright-Knox Art Gallery Plus by Minus, Today's Half Centu
(Exhibition catalog)
88 No
1968 Norman, Jane & Theodore Traveler's Guide to American Art 436 No
1968 Rose, Barbara Readings in American Art Since 1900 A Documentary Survey 270 No
1967 Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques 342 No
1967 New York Univ Art Collection The New York Painter
(Exhibition catalog)
107 No
1967 Rickey, George Constructivism Origins and Evolution 305 No
1965 Geldzahler, Henry American Painting in the Twentieth Century 236 No
1964 Gerdts, William H Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey 276 No
1963 Vigtel, Gudmund The New Tradition Modern Americans Before 1940
(Exhibition catalog)
68 Yes
1962 Gordon, John Geometric Abstraction in America
(Exhibition catalog)
68 Yes
1957 American Abstract Artists The World of Abstract Art 167 Yes
1957 Seuphor, Michel Dictionary of Abstract Painting with a History of Abstract Painting 305 Yes
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1951 Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)
159 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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