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Alfred Henry Maurer

No article on this fellow existed. Very little information is available on this GREAT American painter (I'm not kidding). Whowever wants to add anything, please do so. -- Impressionist October 6, 2005

• When looking to have information added to an article, Wikipedia:Pages needing attention or Wikipedia:Requests for expansion are better forums for listing. Peer review is better at pointing out the areas that an article needs work done. --Allen3 ^talk 00:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Thank you. I'm aware of that. I'm afraid, however, that not much CAN be added to the article. As I've mentioned, information on Maurer is scarce. Most of his paintings are privately owned. What makes it worse is the fact that his very CAREER is controversial. His "figurative" period is, in addition to being virtually unknown (and short), is frowned upon by fans of Cubism; and his "cubist" period is trivial. In other words, NO ONE wants any part of him, which is a great shame. I myself found out about Maurer when, several years ago, I attended an exhibition at the Met titled "American Realism and Impressionism." The event did create some waves, but it failed completely to fill the American Painting section of the museum with viewers (we're talking about Sargent, Chase, Homer, Benson, Sloan, and Co. - a dazzling group, a great milestone that NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD OF), nor did it make anyone remember the name Maurer. Goodness.

Impressionist October 6, 2005

• The American National Biography has a decent entry on him (1650 words), they cite these sources, perhaps you could track them down to work on expanding this article --nixie 02:58, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

  Maurer's works are represented in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Museum of American Art); the University of Nebraska, Art Galleries; and the Brooklyn Museum, among others. Selected letters are in the microfilm collections of the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. For a biography see Elizabeth McCausland, A. H. Maurer (1951). McCausland was also the author of the catalog A. H. Maurer, 1868-1932 (1949), which accompanied the first major exhibition of his work at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The major retrospective of Maurer's work organized by the National Collection of Fine Arts (now National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution) produced Alfred H. Maurer, 1868-1932 (1973). Salander-O'Reilly Galleries in New York City published two catalogs of selected works, Alfred H. Maurer, 1868-1932: Modernist Paintings (1983) and Alfred H. Maurer (1868-1932): The Cubist Works (1988). See also the exhibition catalog from the Bernard Daneberg Galleries, Alfred Maurer and the Fauves: The Lost Years Rediscovered (1973). Obituaries are in the New York Times and the New York Herald-Tribune, both 5 Aug. 1932, and in ArtNews, 13 Aug. 1932, p. 8.