Andrew dasburg biography

American painter (1887–1979)

Andrew Michael Dasburg (4 May 1887 – 13 August 1979) was an American modernist painter and "one of America's leading early exponents of cubism".^[2]

Biography

Dasburg was born in 1887 in Paris.

He emigrated from Germany to New York City with his widowed mother in 1892. After a severe injury, he passed the time in convalescence by sketching.^[2] In 1902 he joined the Art Students League of New York on a scholarship,^[4] where he was taught by Kenyon Cox.^[5] At the league's summer school in Woodstock, New York, he studied landscapes under L.

Birge Harrison.^[2]

In 1909 Dasburg visited Paris and joined the modernist circle of artists living there, including Morgan Russell, Jo Davidson, and Arthur Lee. During a trip to London that same year he married sculptor Grace Mott Johnson.

Johnson returned to the United States early the next year, but Dasburg stayed in Paris where he met H