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Jose De Creeft

Jose De Creeft (1884 - 1982) was active/lived in New York / Mexico, France, Spain.  Jose De Creeft is known for Modernist stone sculpture, expressionist sketches, religious images, teaching.

Modernist sculptor, Jose De Creeft was born in Guadalajara, Spain in 1884. Interested in sculpture as a child, De Creeft made and sold works in the streets as a teenager. Before leaving for Paris in 1905 to study further, he was apprenticed, in 1895, to a maker of religious images; in 1898, to the firm of Masriera and Campin; and in 1900, to the government's official sculptor, Don Augustin Querol.

De Creeft left for Paris in 1905, studying briefly at the Academie Julian and in 1911, attended the Maison Greber to learn to reproduce in stone works initially made in clay and plaster. De Creeft broke with his training in modeling and casting in 1915 and turned to direct carving of wood and stone. Through direct carving, his desire to preserve the natural qualities of the material met his interests in the sculptural arts of Pre-Columbian America and Africa.

Respected in academic circles, De Creeft was commissioned in 1918 to sculpt a granite war memorial in Saugues (Puy de D   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10989 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  61
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61 Book References for Jose De Creeft
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2004 Pyle, Amy (Spanierman Gallery) Art for the New Collector III Re-Emerging American Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
68 Yes
2003 Austin, Robert Michael Artists of the Litchfield Hills
(Exhibition catalog)
132 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 (Teachers) 0 No
1995 Severens, Martha R Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection 289 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 Reynolds, Donald Martin Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium 275 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Mecklenburg, Virginia Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
148 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Wooden, Howard E American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
(Exhibition catalog)
151 No
1984 Craven, Wayne Sculpture in America (new and revised edition) 782 No
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)
600 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 273 Yes
1981 Deak, Gloria-Gilda Profiles of American Artists Represented by Kennedy Galleries 163 No
1981 Kennedy Galleries A Kennedy Galleries Selection of American Art for Public and Private Collectors 81 Yes
1981 Kennedy Galleries Art of America Selected Painting and Sculpture, 1770-1981 64 Yes
1981 Lane, John R.; Michael Botwinick (Foreward) The Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection The Brooklyn Museum 60 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1978 Kennedy Galleries The American View Art from 1770 to 1978
(Exhibition catalog)
108 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1976 Armstrong, Tom 200 Years of American Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)
336 Yes
1976 Institute of Contemporary Art A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976 194 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Fleischman, Lawrence A.(Intro); Lawrence Campbell (Foreward) The Art Students League of New York Anniversarly Exhibition 100 Artists, Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)
284 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1972 Kennedy Galleries Important American Art 1903-1972
(Exhibition catalog)
48 Yes
1972 Tomko, George Catalogue of The Roland P Murdock Collection Wichita Art Museum 237 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1968 Norman, Jane & Theodore Traveler's Guide to American Art 436 No
1967 Ashton, Dore Modern American Sculpture 130 Yes
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)
91 Yes
1963 International Assoc. of Art Profile: Art and Artists in the USA on the Occasion of 4th Congress ... 119 No
1963 Woods, Willis F. (Intro); Paintings and Sculpture: Norton Gallery and School of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
100 Yes
1957 Chanin, A L/Greenwich Gallery Fifty Contemporary American Artis
(Exhibition catalog)
112 No
1954 Arizona State University The Arizona State College Collection of American Art 110 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1954 Pearson, Ralph M Modern Renaissance in American Art 300 No
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1951 Metropolitan Museum of Art Painting & Sculpture by 75 Artist Associated with The Art Students League
(Exhibition catalog)
170 No
1944 The Art Institute of Chicago The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)
22 No
1939 Art Institute of Chicago Half a Century of American Art The Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
110 No
1939 Cheney, Martha Candler Modern Art in America 190 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
Pollack, Deborah Florida Sculptors and Their Work 1880-2020 184 Yes
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