Carles, Arthur B., Jr. (1882–1952). Painter
Among the few Americans who brought French modernism to the United States before the *Armory Show, as well as a significant contributor to a new wave of European-inspired modernism in the later 1930s, he ranks as the only major figure decisively to make that transition. In his fauve-inspired early work, he particularly favored floral still lifes, although he also painted figurative works and landscapes. In the late 1920s he began to fragment objects and rearrange their elements. This technique derived from cubism, but Carles deployed it with vigorous expressionist and decorative effect, as in ... ...
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