American Foundation for Transcendental Painting
Size: 2 items. (on partial microfilm reel)
Summary: "Transcendental Painting," by Alfred Morang, Monograph No. 1 of the American Foundation for Transcendental Painting, Inc., 1940; and a brochure on the Transcendental Painting Group, undated.
The "Transcendental Painting Group" was founded in New Mexico in 1938 and included artists Raymond Jonson, Agnes Pelton, Emil Bisttram, Lawren Harris and others.
Donated by art dealer Martin Diamond, 1993.
Microfilm reel 4909 (fr. 486-499) available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
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Printed matter, 1940. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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