Artist | Elsie Driggs (1898 - 1992)

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    • Elsie Driggs

      Pittsburgh1927

About the work (english / deutsch)

About the work (english / deutsch)

Pittsburgh
Elsie Drigg's impressive gray-in-gray picture Pittsburgh (1927) is related to Sheeler's oeuvre in terms of style and contents. Driggs' focuses our attention on a section from a blast fumace in a steel factory in Pittsburgh. The composition of chimneys, pipes, ropes and steel structures combines with the gray hues of the smoke to forge a picture of the presence of industty in our society. Today, nuclear reactors dominate the landscape and our collective memories in a similar way. Driggs takes a position somewhere between admiration and disassociated observation, referring to the American belief in technological progress and sears itself as a lasting technological "still life" into our memory.


Pittsburgh
Das eindrucksvolle, grau-in-grau gemalte Bild Pittsburgh (1927) von Elsie Driggs gehört stilistisch und inhaltlich in die Nähe der Arbeiten Sheelers. Driggs lenkt unseren Blick auf einen Ausschnitt aus einem Hochofen einer Stahlfabrik in Pittsburgh. Die Komposition aus Schornsteinen, Rohren, Seilen und Stahlkonstruktionen verbindet sich mit dem graugefärbten Rauch zu einem Dokument industrieller Präsenz in unserer Gesellschaft. Eine ähnliche Dominanz geht heute etwa von den Atommeilern aus, die unsere Landschaften und unser kollektives Gedächtnis prägen. Die sich zwischen Bewunderung und distanzierter Beobachtung bewegende Haltung von Driggs verweist auf den Technologieglauben Amerikas und gräbt sich als ein bleibendes technologisches 'Stilleben' in uns ein.

German text by Rolf Lauter / Translation by Jeremy Gaines
(Extract - Full printed version available in the Museum)
MMK - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main

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Exhibitions in artist-info 12 (S 4/ G 8) Did show together with - Top 5 of 253 artists
(no. of shows) - all shows - Top 100
Charles Henry Demuth [Charles Demuth] (6)- 114
Charles Rettew Sheeler [Charles Sheeler] (6)- 190
Ben Shahn [Benjamin Shahn] (6)- 184
Reginald Marsh (5)- 115
George Copeland Ault [George C. Ault] (5)- 17
Exhibitions by type
12:   0 / 10 / 2 / 0
Venues by type
11:   0 / 9 / 2 / 0
Curators 7
artist-info records Apr 1930 - Sep 2015
Countries - Top 2 of 2
United States (7)
Germany (4)
Cities - Top 5 of 5
New York (7)
Frankfurt am Main (2)
Hamburg (1)
Cleveland (1)
Berlin (1)
Venues (no. of shows ) Top 5 of 11
Museum - MMK (2)
Whitney Museum of American Art (1)
Whitney Biennial 1932 - Whitney Museum of American Art (1)
Kunstverein in Hamburg (1)
Akademie der Künste - Berlin (1)
Curators (no. of shows) Top 5 of 7
Jean-Christophe Ammann(2), Adam D. Weinberg(1), Marianne Doezema(1), Scott Rothkopf(1), Dana Miller(1)
Offers/Requests Exhibition Announcement S / G Solo/Group Exhibitions   (..) Exhibitions + Favorites
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America Is Hard to See

Whitney Museum of American Art - America Is Hard to See S May 2015 - Sep 2015 New York (1) +0
De Salvo, Donna (Curator)       +0
Foster, Carter E. (Curator)       +0
Miller, Dana (Curator)       +0
Rothkopf, Scott (Curator)       +0
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Youth and Beauty

 - Art of the American Twenties
Brooklyn Museum of Art - BMA G Oct 2011 - Jan 2012 Brooklyn (513) +0
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Between the wars

 - Women artists of the Whitney Studio Club and Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art G Sep 1997 - Nov 1997 New York (341) +0
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Szenenwechsel XI

Museum - MMK G Jan 1997 - May 1997 Frankfurt am Main (106) +0
Ammann, Jean-Christophe (Curator)       +0
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Die Entdeckung des anderen

 - Ein europäischer Blick auf die amerikanische Kunst 2
Museum - MMK G Jan 1997 - May 1997 Frankfurt am Main (106) +0
Ammann, Jean-Christophe (Curator)       +0
Weinberg, Adam D. (Curator)       +0
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Amerika

 - Traum und Depression 1920 / 40 (1/2)
Kunstverein in Hamburg G Jan 1981 - Feb 1981 Hamburg (604) +0
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