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Carl Robert Holty

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Carl Robert Holty (1900 - 1973) was active/lived in New York / France.  Carl Holty is known for Modernist genre-views-figure, abstract geometric painting, teaching.

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 Known for his floating, luminous, highly-colorful forms, Carl Holty belongs to the school of pure geometric abstract artists, none more renowned than Piet Mondrian.

Holty, a native of Germany, came to the United States as an infant and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Academy of Design in New York, and then went to Munich to enroll in the Hans Hofmann School where he was exposed to Abstract Expressionism.  Holty's early work also shows the influence of Fauvist colors and the work of French artists Maurice de Vlaminck and André Derain.

In Europe, Holty began featuring more biomorphic forms in his work and elements reflective of the Organic Surrealism of Joan Miro.  By the late 1950s, he had developed his enduring subject matter large, soft-edged color forms that mix with, and float on, a lush chromatic stain.

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45 Book References for Carl Robert Holty
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
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Levy, Hannah Heidi Famous Wisconsin Artists and Architects 316 No
2000 Spanierman Gallery America Gone Modern: From the Twenties to the Sixties
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 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
1997 Agee, William C Modern American Painting 1910-194 Toward A New Perspective
(Exhibition catalog)		 24 No
1997 Merrill, Peter C German-American Artists in Early Milwaukee: A Biographyical Dictionary 165 No
1993 Greenberg, Clement; Dr. John O'Brian, Editor Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism (4 Volumes) 622 No
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1989 Fahlman, Betsy American Modernism 80 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Spanierman Gallery American Works on Paper III
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Spanierman Gallery American Works on Paper II
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 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 University of Missouri Illustrated Museum Handbook Guide/Museum Art & Archaeology 135 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 301 Yes
1981 Bearden, Romare/Carl Holty The Painter's Mind: A Study of the Relations of Structure and Space 224 No
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Crispo, Andrew Carl Holty Memorial Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 52 Yes
1969 Janis, Sidney Abstract & Surrealist Art in America 146 No
1968 Agee, William C The 1930's Painting & Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1962 Gordon, John Geometric Abstraction in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1957 American Abstract Artists The World of Abstract Art 167 Yes
1955 Hayes, Bartlett H Jr The Naked Truth and Personal Vision The Length of the Artistic Road (Addison Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1951 Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1943 Kootz, Samuel M New Frontiers in American Painting 65 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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