Jewish socialite Florine Stettheimer used her flamboyant painting and set-design skills to explore the complexity of American identity in the interwar period.
Not only was artist Florine Stettheimer an ardent Democrat, she despised anyone and anything she found pompous, misogynistic, or egotistical. As is evident in her paintings and poetry…
At the opening of Florine Stettheimer’s Museum of Modern Art retrospective in 1946, her sister, Ettie Stettheimer, reportedly said, “I feel that this is the beginning of something.” For a while, i<a href="/art-news/artists/to-all-tomorrows-parties-break-out-the-bubbly-florine-stettheimers-back-8170/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"…
At Florine Stettheimer’s funeral, in 1944, her longtime friend Georgia O’Keeffe delivered a eulogy. Referring to Florine’s sisters, Carrie, who ran the family salon and built a famous…
The outside of New York dealer Jeffrey Deitch’s booth at the Armory Show is bright lime green, glorious cellophane curtains are parted at its entrance, and, inside, its potent buttercream