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Archipenko in Chicago: New Research

February 15, 2024, 9 am–10.30 am CST, during the CAA conference in Chicago.

The session is chaired by Alexandra Keiser, with discussant Marin Sullivan, and new research presentations by Liesl Olson, Robert Calhoun, and Erica Warren.

Archipenko

Alexander Archipenko working on a model of *Moses*, Chicago, 1938

 

Works in Public Collections

Selection:

Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand

Centre Pompidou, Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Paris

Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington

Karl-Ernst-Osthaus Museum, Hagen

Kunsthalle Mannheim

Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Musée d'art et d'histoire, Genève

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Phillips Collection, Washington

Phoenix Museum of Art

Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Sprengel Museum Hannover

Tate Gallery, London

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Works in Public Collections

Installation view of Alexander Archipenko, Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken, 2008-2009; Image courtesy of Saarlandmuseum

 

Suggested Reading

  • Selection:

    Versari, Maria Elena. Archipenko in Italy. Milan: ML Fine Art, Matteo Lampertico, 2021. Exhibition catalog in Italian and English.
    read in pdf format

    Eykyn Maclean (ed.), Alexander Archipenko: Space Encircled. New York: Eykyn Maclean, 2018, with contributions by Frances Archipenko Gray, Alexandra Keiser, Christina Lodder, and Matthew Stephenson
    read in pdf format

    Archipenko Gray, Frances. My Life with Alexander Archipenko. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2014

    Melcher, Ralph (ed.). Alexander Archipenko Saabrücken: Saarland Museum, 2008, with contributions by Kathrin Elvers-Svamberk, Alexandra Keiser, Mona Stocker, Karen Straub, Ute Dietzen-Seitz and Brigitte Schröder, exhibition catalogue (German)

  • Goldberg, Deborah and Alexandra Keiser (eds.). Alexander Archipenko Revisited: An International Perspective. Proceedings of the Archipenko Symposium, Cooper Union, New York City, September 17, 2005. With contributions by Marek Bartelik, Deborah Goldberg, Alexandra Keiser, Marguerite Tuijn and Maria Elena Versari. Bearsville, New York: The Archipenko Foundation, 2008
    order here

    Leshko, Jaroslaw.
    Alexander Archipenko: Vision and Continuity. New York and Kyiv: The Ukrainian Museum with cooperation of Rodovid Press, 2005. Bi-lingual exhibition catalogue (English and Ukrainian).

    Bartelik, Marek.
    Refashioning The Figure: The Sketchbooks of Archipenko c.1920, Henry Moore Institute Essays on Sculpture no. 41, Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 2003.
    read in pdf format

    Barth, Anette.
    Alexander Archipenko's plastisches Ouevre. Frankfurt: Peter Lang 1997. Two volumes. In German.

  • Wayne, Kenneth.
    Montparnasse Heads South: Archipenko, Modigliani, Matisse and WWI Nice, in Impressions of the Riviera: Monet, Renoir, Matisse and Their Contemporaries, Portland Museum of Art, 1998, pp.26-37. Exhibition catalog.

    Michaelsen, Katherine Jánszky and Nehama Guralnik.
    Alexander Archipenko: A Centennial Tribute. Washington: National Gallery of Art 1986. Exhibition catalog.

    Michaelsen, Katherine Jánszky.
    A Study of the Early Works, 1908-1920.
    New York, London: Garland Publishing 1977.

    Archipenko, Alexander. Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958. New York: Tekhne 1960.