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|  | | | Artist of the Week - Morton Schamberg
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From the New York Times -
IF Morton Livingston Schamberg (1881-1918) hadn't died young, his work
might have developed as a major contribution to American modernist art.
One of the small band who joined the revolution of European painting in
the early 1900's, he is known to the art world today by only a few
things, including a one-shot Dada assemblage of plumbing pipes he did
around 1916, titled ''God.'' Yet he was an impressive colorist, one of
the first painters to bring Cubism to America and a pioneer of the
Precisionist movement that was further developed by such artists as
Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keeffe and Ralston Crawford. What's more,
the meticulous renderings of mechanical parts he did in 1916 were among
the earliest in that genre, today even thought to antedate the Dada
''machine'' paintings of Francis Picabia.
 Morton Schamberg
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