Alfred Henry Maurer was an American modernist painter. He exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally and in New York City during the early twentieth century. Highly respected today, his work met with little critical or commercial success in his lifetime, and he died, a suicide, at the age of sixty-four.
"Self portrait" (1897)
Carousel, c. 1901-1902, Brooklyn Museum
"An Arrangement". 1901; oil on cardboard
Landscape of Provence, c. 1912–1922, Reynolda House Museum of American Art
American modernism, much like the modernism movement in general, is a trend of philosophical thought arising from the widespread changes in culture and society in the age of modernity. American modernism is an artistic and cultural movement in the United States beginning at the turn of the 20th century, with a core period between World War I and World War II. Like its European counterpart, American modernism stemmed from a rejection of Enlightenment thinking, seeking to better represent reality in a new, more industrialized world.
Alfred Henry Maurer, An Arrangement, 1901
Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), Synchromism. Oil on canvas, 41.28 cm × 33.34 cm., Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute.
Marsden Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer, 1914
Oscar Bluemner, Form and Light, Motif in West New Jersey (1914)