Art Front

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Art Front was an art magazine co-founded by the Artists' Committee of Action and the Artists Union in New York. Twenty-five issues appeared between November 1934 and December 1937.

History

In early 1934 a group called the Artists' Committee of Action formed to protest Nelson Rockefeller's destruction of Diego Rivera's mural Man at the Crossroads; Hugo Gellert, Stuart Davis, Zoltan Hecht and Lionel S. Reiss were among the leaders. In the autumn of 1934 Herman Baron, director of the American Contemporary Art gallery, was asked to join them; he offered to publish a bulletin for the group, like those he had previously issued through his gallery. Gellert suggested to the Artists Union that they should collaborate on the project. The name Art Front was suggested by Herbert Kruckman.

The first issue appeared in November 1934. Baron was managing editor, with an editorial committee of sixteen, eight from each of the partner groups. Apart from Gellert, Davis and Hecht, those from the Artists' Committee of Action were Hilda Abel, Harold Baumbach, Abraham Harriton, Rosa Pringle and Jennings Tofel, while those from the Artists Union were Boris Gorelick, Katherine Gridley, Ethel Olenikov, Robert Jonas, Kruckman, Michael Loew, C. Mactarian and Max Spivak.

References

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[https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/art-front-5779 Art Front, 1934–1937]. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art. Retrieved February 2015.

Patricia Hills (2010). [http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T2088304 Art Front]. Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Accessed February 2015. {{subscription required}}
{{pad|2em}}or the same text as:
{{long dash}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C&pg=PA148 Art Front], in: Joan M. Marter (ed.) (2011).The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Volume 1. {{ISBN|9780195335798}}. {{nowrap|p. 148.}}

Gerald M. Monroe (1973). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1557096 Art Front]. Archives of American Art Journal 13 (3): 13–19. {{subscription required}}}}

External links

[https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/parties/cpusa/art-front/index.htm Marxists Internet Archive: Art Front history and scans of issues]

Category:Defunct magazines published in the United States

Category:Magazines established in 1934

Category:Magazines disestablished in 1937

Category:Magazines published in New York City

Category:Monthly magazines published in the United States

Category:Visual arts magazines published in the United States