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In 1924 Galka Scheyer brought the work of four fellow avant-garde artists from Germany to America. with tireless enthusiasm, she promoted the work of Lyonel Feininger, Alexej von Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee--the "Blue Four"--so-named to reflect their earlier association with the Blue Rider group (Der Blaue Reiter) of Munich Expressionists. This strikingly beautiful book reproduces in full color more than 140 Blue Four works of art as well as many black and white illustrations that have never been published before. The book brings to life Scheyer's activities promoting modern art in the United States from the 1920s to her death in 1945 and documents her friendships with the four artists.

"'The Blue Four' is the most extensive sourcebook yet on the Norton Simon Museum's [Pasadena Art Museum, California] Galka Scheyer Collection and Archive. Besides color images of each artist's works, it reproduces some of the correspondence in German--including sheets decorated with drawings or graphics--and essays on every aspect of the Blue Four's fortunes in Europe and America."

Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, 08/23/1998

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