Clivette, Merton, 1868-1931
Painter
This site provides access to the papers of Merton Clivette in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2023, and total 14 images.
Size: 0.01 Linear feet
Summary: The papers of Merton Clivette date from circa 1927-1932, measure 0.01 linear feet, and consist of a 1929 handwritten biographical sketch of Clivette written by Gustave Nassuery, news clippings and other printed material about Clivette including an autobiographical piece, reviews of Clivette's work and exhibitions, and a page from a catalog with a reproduction of Clivette's painting of Walt Whitman.
Painter, sculptor, author, and magician Merton Clivette (1868-1931), spent his early life as a vaudevillian and entertainer before he settled in New York City to paint, and was a well-known figure in the Bohemian Greenwich Village scene of the 1920s. While Clivette's early artistic style was associated with the realism of the Ashcan school his work evolved through periods of expressionism and more figurative work, before ultimately becoming more abstract.
The provenance of the Merton Clivette papers is unknown.
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This site provides access to the papers of Merton Clivette in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2023, and total 14 images.
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