Joan Snyder on Florine Stettheimer’s Cathedrals Paintings

Video (3:10): Artist Joan Snyder reflects on Florine Stettheimer’s “Cathedrals” paintings in this episode of The Artist Project (2016).

Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) was an American modernist painter, feminist, theatrical designer, poet, and salonnière. The Cathedrals of Art, a series of four monumental paintings were executed between 1929 and 1942; Florine Stettheimer created extraordinary composite visions of New York’s economic, social, and cultural institutions.

Joan Snyder is an American expressionist painter and an openly queer woman.

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