Morton Livingston Schamberg
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Morton Livingston Schamberg was an American modernist painter and photographer. He was one of the first American artists to explore the aesthetic qualities of industrial subjects. Schamberg is conside
Self-portrait by Morton Schamberg, c. 1913.
Telephone (1916). Oil on canvas, Columbus Museum of Art.
God (1917), Dada sculpture by Schamberg and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, photographed by Schamberg
Abstract Landscape, c. 1910–1913
Precisionism
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Precisionism was a modernist art movement that emerged in the United States after World War I. Influenced by Cubism, Purism, and Futurism, Precisionist artists reduced subjects to their essential geom
Morton Livingston Schamberg
…photographer. He was one of the first American artists to explore the aesthetic qualities of industrial subjects. Schamberg is considered a pioneer of the Precisionism art movement, and one of the first American adopters of Cubist style. Schamberg was born in Philadelphia on October 15, 1881. He was the youngest child…
Charles Demuth, Aucassin and Nicolette, oil on canvas, 1921
Charles Demuth, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, 1928, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Paul Strand, Wall Street, 1915