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Pat Steir

Pat Steir (Born 1938/40) is active/lives in New York, New Jersey / Holland.  Pat Steir is known for Abstract landscape, words, botanic painting.

Painter, printmaker Pat Steir is a painter and draftsman of words, letters, signs and symbolic marks, drips and spills applied to paper and canvas.

Steir, who now lives in New York City and Amsterdam, was born Iris Patricia Sukoneck in 1940 in Newark, New Jersey, growing up in a Jersey suburb of Philadelphia. Immersed in a study of the arts and philosophy as a girl, Steir continued her interests at Boston University and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, studying lithography and etching from 1956 to 1962. She received her B.F.A. degree from Pratt in 1961.

After completion of her studies, during which she had worked with artists Richard Lindner and Philip Guston, Steir was employed by Harper and Row Publishers in New York City as an art director and book designer from 1966 to 1970. While she continued to paint, it would seem that her attraction to words was a reflection of inborn thinking that directed her into the world of books, and by being in that world, reinforced what she   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2880 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Research resources

.  askART lists Pat Steir in 1 of its research Essays. Pat Steir has 2 artist signature examples available in our database.

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Facts about Pat Steir

   Publications  Book References:  43
Magazine References:  23

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23 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Pat Steir
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews Art Market: Pat Steir: Rising Waterfall December 2006 Grant, Daniel Yes
ARTnews Reviews September 2006 Editors, Artnews Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions October 2005 Various Art in America Editors Yes
ARTnews Reviews September 2005 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews Looking After Their Own May 2005 Emerling, Susan Yes
ARTnews What Makes a Painting a Painting? April 2005 Yablonsky, Linda Yes
ARTnews Perspective: Best Seats in the Hous March 2004 Esterow, Milton Yes
ARTnews Aspen: A Cutting-Edge Museum and January 2004 Stunda, Hilary Yes
ARTnews Who Are the Great Women Artists? March 2003 Landi, Ann Yes
ARTFORUM Reviews February 2003 Editors, Artforum No
ARTFORUM Best of 2002, A Special Issue December 2002 Editors, Artforum Yes
ARTnews Books-Speaking Volumes November 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions September 2002 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTFORUM Reviews September 2002 Editors, Artforum No
ARTnews Strange Comfort September 2002 Sheets, Hilarie M. Yes
ARTnews Going with the Flow August 2000 Mayo, Marti Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk February 2000 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art in America Watercourse Way November 1999 Denson, G Roger No
Art & Auction Heirs to the Crown Point Tradition April 1999 Helfand, Glen No
ARTnews New York Reviews October 1998 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews Weighing in on Feminism May 1997 Lovelace, Carey Yes
ARTnews Pleasure, Pain & Protocol March 1996 Gardner, Paul Yes
ARTnews REviews November 1995 MacAdam, Alfred Yes
43 Book References for Pat Steir
Year Author Title Pages Color
2006 Dantzic, Cynthia Maris 100 New York Painters 224 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
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
2002 Komanecky, Michael K. (editor) Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights 352 Yes
2000 Skold, Stacey (compiler) Art Enterprises: Selections from the Collection 195 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Brown, Kathan Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press 287 Yes
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1996 Ruzicka, Joseph Landfall Press: Twenty-Five Years Of Printmaking 220 Yes
1995 Hansen, Trudy (others) Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990 248 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1995 McEvilley, Thomas Pat Steir 176 Yes
1993 Beckett, Wendy The Mystical Now Art and the Sacred 160 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1992 Rose, Bernice Allegories of Modernism Contemporary Drawing
(Exhibition catalog)
128 Yes
1991 Hoffman, Katherine Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945 400 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Chadwick, Whitney Women, Art, and Society 384 Yes
1990 Cotter, Holland Pat Steir Waterfalls
(Exhibition catalog)
62 Yes
1990 Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro) American Painting 319 Yes
1989 Armstrong, Elizabeth First Impressions Early Prints by Forty-six Contemporary Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
149 Yes
1988 Beckett, Wendy Contemporary Women Artists 128 Yes
1987 Brutvan, Cheryl Masterworks on Paper from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery 168 Yes
1987 Field, Richard S/Ruth E Fine A Graphic Muse Prints by Contemporary Women 163 Yes
1987 Krane, Susan Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972 379 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Ratcliff, Carter Pat Steir Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)
119 Yes
1986 Sydney, Clare Flower Painting 80 Yes
1984 Freeman, Phyllis New Art 207 Yes
1984 Marshall, Richard American Art Since 1970, Painting, Sculpture and Drawing Whitney Museum of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
124 No
1984 Severinghaus, J Walter Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection 333 Yes
1983 Mayo, Marti Arbitrary Order Paintings by Pat Steir
(Exhibition catalog)
54 Yes
1983 Walker, Barry The American Artist as Printmaker
(Exhibition catalog)
144 Yes
1980 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies
(Exhibition catalog)
88 Yes
1979 Cathcart, Linda L American Painting of the 1970s
(Exhibition catalog)
111 Yes
1979 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro) Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
(Exhibition catalog)
298 Yes
1977 Seabolt, Fred/Donald Goodall New in the Seventies (Archer Huntington Gallery Exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)
60 Yes
1977 Whitney Museum 1977 Biennial Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
104 No
1975 American Federation of Arts William Allan Recent Drawings 24 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Kuh, Katherine (Foreward); Gaylord Freeman (Intro) The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago 274 Yes
1973 Solomon, Elke M American Drawings 1963-1973
(Exhibition catalog)
62 No
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