Francis Criss
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Francis Hyman Criss (1901 - 1973) was an American painter. Criss's style is associated with the American Precisionists like Charles Demuth and his friend Charles Sheeler.[1]
The work from his best-known years, the 1930s and 1940s, is characterized by imagery of the urban environment, such as elevated subway tracks, skyscrapers, streets, and bridges. Criss rendered these subjects with a streamlined, abstracted style, devoid of human figures, that led him to be associated with the Precisionism movement. With distorted perspectives and dream-like juxtapositions, as in Jefferson Market Courthouse (1935), these empty cityscapes also suggest the influence of Surrealism.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
A turn towards more commercial work later in his career—including a November 1942 cover for Fortune Magazine—led to a decline in his reputation.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Criss died in 1973 in New York City.[2]
His work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum,[3] the Detroit Institute of Arts,[4] the Philadelphia Museum of Art,[5] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[2] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[6]
In 2021 Criss' painting Alma Sewing was featured in an essay by the art critic Sebastian Smee in the Washington Post. Smee considers Alma Sewing to be Criss' finest work.[7] The painting in the collection of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia.[8]
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External links
- images of Criss' work from the Whitney Museum of American Art
- images of Criss' work on ArtNet
- Online Monograph