A MASTERPIECE, IN THE HISTORY OF PAINTING

Alfred Henry Maurer

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Two Heads – 1930 – Alfred Henry Maurer

Alfred Henry Maurer (April 21, 1868 – August 4, 1932) was an American modernist painter. He exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally and in New York City during the early twentieth century. Highly respected today, his work met with little critical or commercial success in his lifetime…..
Maurer’s works are included today in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Chicago Art Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution, the Reynolda House Museum in North Carolina, Memorial Hall Museum in Philadelphia, PA, the Phillips Collection, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas and the Barnes Foundation, among others. [ Wikipedia]