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Mercedes Carles Matter

Mercedes Carles Matter (1913 - 2001) was active/lived in New York, Pennsylvania.  Mercedes Matter is known for Abstract expressionist still life painting, drawing, educator.

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Best known as a painter of abstract still life and founder of the New York Studio School, Mercedes Matter was also a distinguished teacher and writer. She lived in East Hampton, New York. Before founding the Studio School in 1964, she taught at several east coast schools and published many articles on modern art.

She was born Mercedes Carles in New York. Her father was artist Arthur B. Carles, and her mother was Mercedes de Cordoba, a model for photographer Edward Steichen. She was raised in Philadelphia and New York and Europe, and by age six, was painting under her father's direction. She later studied with Hans Hofmann at the Art Students League and at Bennett Junior College in Millbrook, Connecticut.

In 1939 she married Herbert Matter, a graphic designer and photographer, and they were active in the New York art scene with the Pollocks, de Koonings, and Calders.

She started the New York Studio School after a 1963 article by her in ARTnews appeared in whi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 16014 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  34
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Mercedes Carles Matter
Magazine Article Date Author Color
The Magazine Antiques Current and Coming December 2003 Ledes, Allison Eckardt Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk June 2003 Editor, ARTtalk Yes
ARTnews National News February 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
34 Book References for Mercedes Carles Matter
Year Author Title Pages Color
2017 Perl, Jed Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 704 Yes
2016 Sandler, Irving (Author), Joan Marter (Editor) and Gwen F. Chanzit (Introduction) Women of Abstract Expressionism 216 Yes
2014 Uslip, Jeffrey, John Yau, Monica Rumsey (Editor), Elsa Longhauser,( Foreward) Joyce Pensato: I Killed Kenny (lSanta Monica Museum of Art) 110 Yes
2011 Dickey, Tina Color Creates Light: Studies With Hans Hoffman 424 Yes
2010 Landau, Ellen; Phyllis Braff, Sandra Kraskan, Mercedes Matter Mercedes Matter 276 Yes
2010 Levin, Gail Lee Krasner: A Biography 546 Yes
2009 Perl, Jed New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-century 656 Yes
2007 Landau, Ellen; Claude Cernuschi Pollock Matters 178 Yes
2005 Albrecht, Donald The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention 205 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2004 Stevens, Mark; Annalyn Swan De Kooning: An American Master 708 Yes
2003 Herrera, Hayden Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work 767 Yes
2000 Taggart, Hollis; Vivian Bullaudy, Richard J. Boyle The Orchestration of Color: The Paintings of Arthur B. Carles (Hollis Taggart Galleries)
(Exhibition catalog)
183 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Singerman, Howard Art Subjects: Making Artists in the American University 306 Yes
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1998 Editors, Museum of Modern Art Fernand Leger 303 Yes
1998 Schuyler, James; Simon Pettit Selected Art Writings 310 Yes
1996 Editor, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries Mercedes Matter Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)
12 Yes
1992 Matter, Mercedes; Larry Day Jane Piper: Selected Paintings, 1976-1990 12 Yes
1990 Evaul, William (Foreward); Cynthia Goodman; Lillian Orlowsky The Provocative Years: 1933-1945 the Hans Hofmann School in Provincetown 32 No
1989 Naifeh, Steven and G Smith Jackson Pollock: An American Saga 934 Yes
1988 Mayer, Musa Night Studio A Memoir of Philip Guston 258 Yes
1987 Matter, Herbert; Mercedes Matter Alberto Giacometti 224 Yes
1986 Editor, Washburn Gallery 50 Years Ago: WPA/AAA 32 Yes
1986 Van Wagner, Judy Collischan American Abstract Artists: 50th Anniversary Celebration 72 Yes
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)
600 No
1983 Wolanin, B. A. Arthur B. Carles, Painting With Color 176 Yes
1979 Diamonstein, Barbaralee Inside New York's Art World 380 Yes
1976 Ashton, Dore A Critical Study of Philip Guston (also entitled 'Yes But') 216 Yes
1976 Munro, Eleanor Originals:American Women Artists 528 Yes
1972 Essays by Don Richter, Isamue Noguchi, Norman Cousins, Mercedes Matter The Architectural Forum/January-February 1972: The World of Buckminster Fuller 125 Yes
1972 Rosenberg, Harold The De-definition of Art Action Art to Pop to Earthworks 256 No
1966 Curator Drawings: An Exhibition at the University Art Museum of the University of Texas
(Exhibition catalog)
55 No
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