biografía de Earl HORTER (1881-1940)

Lugar de defunción: Philadelphia, PA

Direcciones: Phila.

Profesión: Illustrator, etcher, painter, collector

Exposiciones: Pan-Pacific Expo, 1915 (med.); Salons of Am., 1923; PAFA, 1924-25, 1930-40; Etching Show, AIC, 1932 (prize); WMAA, 1926-46; Nat. Exh. of Prints, Phila. Print Club, 1933 (prize), 1938 (prize); Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1935-39

Asociaciones: SI, 1910

Comentarios: Speciality: etchings of urban scenes. An avid collector of Modernist art, he at times owned works by Brancusi, Picasso, Matisse, as well as works by Steeler, Stella, MacDonald-Wright and other American painters. During the Great Depression he began collecting American Indian artifacts. In 1999 the Philadelphia Museum of Art staged an exhibition of his own works together with works he had collected ("Mad for Modernism: Earl Horter and His Collection").

Fuentes: WW40; Marlor, Salons of Am. cites 1885 birth date; Falk, Exh. Record Series; Grace Glueck,"An Eclectic Collection is Back Under One Roof," New York Times, May 1999.