Claude Buck: American Symbolist, 1890-1974

by Paul J. Karlstrom

Catalogue of 46 paintings, drawings, photographs and memorabilia. Foreword by Charles C. Eldredge; biographical chronology; bibliography. Principal study of American symbolist painter inspired by Albert Pinkham Ryder. Buck was a member of "The Introspectives", a group of New York City subjectivist painters in the teens; later taught at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and was active in the anti-modernist "Sanity in Art" movement in Chicago from 1919 to 1943, when he moved to California where he remained until his death in 1974.

44 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1983