Florine stettheimer

Tulips Under a Canopy

There is a larger cultural dimension to much of what we see in Florine Stettheimer’s paintings at the Jewish Museum: the skyscrapers, the department stores, the African-American jazz, the shifting gender roles. Viewers in search of the perfect counterpoint to the Stettheimer retrospective need only walk a block south to the razzle-dazzle show “The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.”

Through over 50 paintings and drawings, this exhibition offers an important survey of the work of the modernist painter, designer, and poet Florine Stettheimer.

Brooklyn Museum

Stettheimer Dollhouse in Pictures - Vanderbilt Hall's Doll Masterpiece

For an art-viewing experience unlike any other, enjoy Florine Stettheimer's paintings. Stettheimer created an aesthetic that was all her own, depicting modern scenes of wealthy Jazz Age society in a colorful and festive style.

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Florine Stettheimer. Costume design (Modele homme) for artist's ballet Orphée of the Quat-z-arts. c. 1912. Gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper. 15 1/8 x 9 1/8" (38.4 x 23.2 cm). Gift of Miss Ettie Stettheimer. 83.1947.16. © Estate of Florine Stettheimer. Associated Work. Drawings & Prints

American, 1871–1944.

The Cathedrals of Art, 1942–44 Florine Stettheimer (American, 1871–1944) Oil on Canvas; 60 1/4 x 50 1/2 in. (153 x 127.6 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gift of Ettie Stettheimer, 1953 (53.24.1) The Cathedrals of Art was the last painting in the Cathedrals series and was still in process when Stettheimer died in 1944. Here the artist describes the world she knows best: the world of museums, artists, and art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art serves as center stage for a rather…