The prolific, cutting-edge life of artist Florine Stettheimer is explored in a new biography
. Intrigued, Bloemink dug deeper and discovered that, like O’Keeffe, Stettheimer was an American painter who was active in the early 20th century. Bloemink fell in love with the bright colors, winking humor, and progressive, feminist messaging of Stettheimer’s faux-naïf paintings. It was unlike anything she had seen from an artist of that era. Despite her professor’s initial objections , Bloemink sallied forth, writing her dissertation on this enigmatic chronicler of Jazz Age New York.
“She is one of the most important artists of the early 20th century,” Bloemink told me recently. And not just for her paintings. Stettheimer was friends with a who’s who of 1920s and ’30s New York, hosting, with her mother and sisters, salons attended by the likes of Marcel Duchamp, O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, and Eugene O’Neill. She designed her own ballet, calledan avant-garde opera by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson.
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