The Publications of Robert Goldwater (1907-1973)
T HE PASSING of Robert Goldwater is a sad loss to the
world of art, and particularly to all who personally
knew and admired this great critic and scholar.
His pioneering research and writing on the role of
primitive art in the development in modern art was at
once widely recognized as a landmark. Undertaken
when both these forms af art were still relatively unfamiliar, it broadened the general appreciation of both
fields. His work at the Museum of Primitive Art, both
as one of its organizers in the early stages, and later for
1932
Review: Hans Weigert, Die Stilstufenderdeutschen
Plastik von
I250
bis I350, in Art Bulletin, 14 (1932), no. 2, pp. I86-189.
I934
in "ProfessorDewey
Review: John Dewey, Art as Experience,
on Art," The Nation, 138 (1934), no. 3598, pp. 710-711.
1935
Contributor: African Negro Art: A Corpusof Photographsby
WalkerEvans, exhib.tion catalogue, Museum of Modern
Art (New York, 1935).
"An Approach to African Sculpture," Parnassus,7 (1935),
no. 4, pp. 25-27.
many years as its director, continued this important
effort.
More recently, he was deeply engaged with the planning of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, which will be
part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and form the
permanent home of the Museum of Primitive Art's
collection. All of us who shared his concerns are fortunate to have known him as colleague, guide, and friend.
He is deeply missed.
NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER
I939
"Gros, G6ricault, Delacroix," Artin America,27 (1939), no. I,
PP. 37-39.
"Seventeen Masterpieces of Dutch Painting," Art in America,
27 (1939), no. 2, pp. 90-91.
I940
"Picasso: Forty Years of His Art," Art in America, 28 (1940),
no. I, pp. 43-44-
"Artists Painted by Themselves: Self-Portraitsfrom Baroque
to Impressionism," Art News, 38 (I940), no. 26, pp. 6-14.
"David and Ingres," Art in America, 28 (I940), no. 2, pp.
83-84.
in
Review: Lionello Venturi, Les Archivesde l'Impressionisme,
Art Bulletin, 22 (I940), no. 2, pp. II1-113.
1936
America.Oceania. Africa,exhibition catalogue, Pierre Matisse
Gallery (New York, 1936).
Bulletin, 23 (I94I),
1937
"The Art ofAfrica," TheBrooklynMuseumQuarterly,
24 ( 937),
no. , pp. 4-19.
"A Unique Gauguin," Magazine of Art, 30 (1937), no. I, pp.
24-26, 54-55.
"Prehistoric Rock Pictures," Magazine ofArt, 30 (1937), no. 6,
pp. 380-382.
Contributor: Harper'sEncyclopedia
of Art (New York-London,
I937). (Unsigned entries: "Negro art-Africa,"
253; "Oceanic art," p. 256.)
'94I
"Some Aspects of the Development of Seurat's Style," Art
pp. 252-
I938
Primitivismin ModernPainting(New York-London, I938).
"C6zanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American
Collections," Art News, 36 (1938), no. 26, pp. I34-160.
"Masters of Popular Paintings," Magazineof Art, 31 (1938),
no. 6, pp. 356-357.
no. 2, pp. 117-I30.
Review: Nikolaus Pevsner, Academiesof Art, Past andPresent,
in Art Bulletin, 23 (194 ), no. 2, pp. I84-I85.
1942
"Renoir," Art in America, 30 (1942), no. I, pp. 63-64.
"Modern Art in the College Curriculum," CollegeArtJournal,
I (1942), no. 4, pp. 90-93?
" 'L'Affiche Moderne,' A Revival of Poster Art After I88o,"
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 22 (1942),
no. 910, pp. 173-182.
'943
"The Teaching of Art in the Colleges of the United States,"
College Art Journal, 2 (I943),
PP. 3-3I1
no. 4, Part II-supplement,
Review: John B. Flannagan, Letters,in ArtBulletin,25 (I943),
no. 3, pp. 287-288.
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I944
"Derain: Revaluation in Retrospect," Art News, 42 (1944),
no. 17, pp. I9, 25.
'949
"Modern Art in Your Life" (with Rene d'Harnoncourt), exhibition catalogue, Museumof ModernArt Bulletin, I7 (1949),
no. I, pp. 1-48.
'945
Artists on Art, from the XIV to the XX Century (with Marco
Treves) (New York, 1945).
"Art and Nature in the i9th Century," Magazineof Art, 38
(I945), no. 3, pp. I04-
Review: Simon L. Millner, Ernst Josephson,in Magazine of Art,
42 (I949), no. I, p. 30.
Editorial: "Miniver Cheevy and the Dignity of Man," Magazine of Art, 42 (I949), no. 2, pp. 57, 72.
"A Symposium: The State of American Art," Magazineof
I I.
"Abraham Rattner: An American Internationalist at
Home," Art in America, 33 (I945), no. 2, pp. 84-93.
Review: Camille Pissarro, Letters to His Son Lucien, Lucien Pis-
sarro and John Rewald, eds. ;John Rewald, Georges
Seurat;
Hans Graber, Paul Cezannenach eigenenundfremden Zeugnissen; Erle Loran, Cezanne's Composition: Analysis of His Form
with Diagrams and Photographsof His Motifs, in Art Bulletin,
27 (I945), no. 2, pp. 158-I61.
Art, 42 (I949),
no. 3, p. 83.
I950
Editorial: "Richmond Revisited," Magazine of Art, 43 (1950),
no. 6, pp. 230-23I.
"A Symposium: Government and Art," Magazineof Art, 43
(I950), no. 7, p. 243.
I95I
I946
Review: Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters; Piet
"Letter from Paris," Magazine of Art, 44 (I95I),
I84-I85, 193-
no. 5, pp.
Mondrian, Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art; Laszlo MoholyNagy, The New Vision, and Abstract of an Artist; Hilaire
Editorial: "The Lost Independents," Magazine of Art, 44
Hiler, Henry Miller, and William Saroyan, WhyAbstract?
in "Moving Towards the Absolute," KenyonReview, 8
Participant: "The Western Round Table of Modern Art,"
(I946), no. I, pp. I64-i67.
no. 8, p. 302.
(I95I),
Douglas MacAgy, ed., in Modern Artists in America (New
York, 1951), pp. 24-37.
"Puvis de Chavannes: Some Reasons for a Reputation," Art
Bulletin, 28 (1946), no. I, pp. 33-43.
"The Genesis of a Picture: Theme and Form in Modern
Painting," Critique, I (1946), no. I, pp. 5-I2.
I952
Translator:
Walter Friedlaender,
(Cambridge, Mass., 1952).
From David to Delacroix
"Symbolist Art and Theater: Vuillard, Bonnard, Maurice
Editorial: "American Art Abroad," Magazine of Art, 45
Denis," Magazine of Art, 39 (1946), no. 8, pp. 366-370.
Review: Erle Loran, Cezanne's Composition; The Arts, Number
One, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, ed.; The Drawings of Henry
Moore, in "Art Notes," Partisan Review, 13 (1946), no. 5,
pp. 599-600.
(1952), no. I, p. 2.
Editorial: "Partial Criticism," Magazine of Art, 45 (I952),
no. 2, p. 50.
Editorial: "Minding the Artist," Magazine of Art, 45 ( 952),
no. 3, p. 98.
Editorial: "The Barnes Suit," Magazine of Art, 45 (I952),
I947
Rufino Tamayo (New York, I947).
"Art Letter," KenyonReview, 9 (I947), no. I, pp. I I0-I 12.
"Dubuffet's Diablerie," View, 7 (I947), no. 3, pp. 47, 49.
"Note on Marsden Hartley's 'Evening Storm, Schoodick,
Maine,' " KenyonReview, 9 (I947), no. 2, pp. I65-I66.
"Gauguin's 'Yellow Christ,' " GalleryNotes[Buffalo Fine Arts
Academy, Albright Art Gallery], I I (947),
no. 3, pp. 3-I3.
Review: RenoirDrawings,John Rewald, ed.; Germain Seligman, The Drawings of GeorgesSeurat, in Art in America, 35
(I947), no. 3, pp. 238-239.
"Art Chronicle: A Season of Art," Partisan Review, 14 (1947),
no. 4, pp. 414-4I8.
"Symbolism in Painting," Art News, 46 (I947), no. 7, pp. 1417, 44-45-
"A French Nineteenth-Century Painting: Manet's 'Picnic,'"
Art in America, 35 (I947),
no. 4, pp. 324-328.
I948
Editorial: "Boston Backtrack," Magazine of Art, 41 (1948),
no. 4, p. I22.
i80
no. 4, p. 146.
Editorial: "Regionalism-Nationalism-Internationalism,"
Magazine of Art, 45 (1952), no. 5, p. I94.
Review: The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology, Robert
Motherwell, ed., in Art Bulletin, 34 (1952), no. 3, pp.
249-25
1
Editorial: "The Monument and the Landmark," Magazine
of Art, 45 (1952), no. 6, p. 242.
Editorial: "Artist and Critic," Magazine of Art, 45 (I952),
no. 7, p. 290.
Editorial: "Words and Pictures," Magazine of Art, 45 (1952),
no. 8, p. 338.
'953
Vincent Van Gogh (New York, 1953).
Modern Art in TourLife (with Rene d'Harnoncourt), 2nd and
3rd revised eds. (New York, I953).
"Arthur Dove," Perspectives USA, no. 2, Winter I953, pp.
78-88.
Editorial: "Art and/or Culture," Magazine of Art, 46 (1953),
no.
I, p. 2.
1953 (continued)
Editorial: "The Academy of Nature," Magazineof Art, 46
(I953), no. 3, p. 98.
Editorial: "Valedictory" (with James Thrall Soby), Magazine of Art, 46 (I953), no. 5, p. 194.
"These PromisingYounger Europeans,"ArtNews, 52 (1953),
no. 8, pp. I4-I6, 53-54.
1958
"Renoir at Wildenstein," Art in America,46 (1958), no. I,
pp. 60-6I.
Introduction to AfricanSculptureLent by New YorkCollectors,
exhibition catalogue, Museum of Primitive Art (New
York, 1958).
I954
"Vuillard's Intimate Art," The Art Digest, 28 (I954), no. 9,
pp. 7-8.
Review: John I. H. Baur, American
Paintingin the igth Century:
Main Trendsand Movements,in "Lincoln's Art," Saturday
Review,37 (I954), no- I4, pp- 58-59Review: Henry R. Hope, The Sculpture
of JacquesLipchitz,in
"Modern Stonecutter," SaturdayReview,37 (I954), no. 32,
PP. 34-35"The Arensberg Collection for Philadelphia," Burlington
Magazine,96 (I954), no. 620, pp. 350-353.
"Individuality and Style," Design Quarterly,no. 30, (I954),
pp. 3-8.
Jacques Lipchitz (New York, I959).
1959
1955
Review: I. Groth-Kimball and F. Feuchtwanger, The Art of
AncientMexico;Friedrich Hewicker and Herbert Tischner,
OceanicArt; Eckart von Sydow, Afrikanische
Plastik;Werner
Schmalenbach, African Art; Miguel Covarrubias, The
Eagle, theJaguarandtheSerpent,in "The not-so-primitive,"
Art News, 53 (I955),
no. 9, PP- 30-3I, 65-66.
TheFiftiethAnniIntroduction to Fifty Paintings,I905-I9I3;
versaryExhibition,exhibition catalogue, Fine Arts Academy,
Albright Art Gallery, (Buffalo, I955), pp. 7-I6. Also published as "1905-191 3: The Crucial Years of Modernism,"
The Art Digest, 29 (I955), no. I7, pp. I -I3, 3I; no. I8,
pp. I8-20, 30.
Review: Georges Bataille, Lascaux,ortheBirthof Art, in "Prehistory in Image," SaturdayReview, 38 (1955), no. 35,
pp. 15-I6.
1956
"Sculpture Today in New York," Cimaise,4 (1956), no. 2,
pp. I0, 43-44 (in French, pp. 24-28).
"David Hare," Art in America, 44 (1956/I957),
I8-20,
6I.
no. 4, pp.
Republished in ThreeAmericanSculptors(New
York, 1959).
I957
Paul Gauguin(New York, 1957).
"Primitives beaut6s," L'Oeil, no. 27, I957, pp. I4-I9.
Introduction to SelectedWorksfromtheCollection,I, exhibition
catalogue, Museum of Primitive Art (New York, 1957).
Introduction to SelectedWorksfromtheCollection,2, exhibition
catalogue, Museum of Primitive Art (New York, 1957).
"The Museum of Primitive Art in New York," Graphis,13
(I957), no. 74, pp. 528-537, 557 (in English, German,
and French).
Introduction to Sculpture
from ThreeAfrican Tribes: Senufo,
Baga, Dogon, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Primitive
Art (New York, I959).
Foreword to The Art of Lake Sentani,exhibition catalogue,
Museum of Primitive Art (New York, 1959), p. 5.
Review: John Canaday, Mainstreams
of ModernArt, in "After
Jacques-Louis David, what?" Art News, 58 (I959), no. 8,
pp. 42, 63-64.
Foreword to Aspectsof PrimitiveArt (LectureSeriesNumberOne)
(New York, I959), pp. 8-9.
960
BambaraSculpture
from the WesternSudan(New York, I960).
"Reflections on the New York School," Quadrum,
no. 8, I960,
pp. 17-36.
exhibition catalogue, MuForeword to TheLipchitzCollection,
seum of Primitive Art (New York, I960), p. 5.
Foreword to The RaymondWielgusCollection,exhibition catalogue, Museum of Primitive Art (New York, I960), p. 5.
I96I
"Reflections on the Rothko Exhibition," Arts, 35 (1961),
no. 6, pp. 42-45.
"Reflections on the Rothko Exhibition," Mark Rothko,exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery (London, 96 ).
(Under the auspices of the International Council, Museum
of Modern Art.)
Review: Clement Greenberg, Art and Culture,in "Art and
Criticism," PartisanReview,28 (196I), nos. 5-6, pp. 688694.
"Reuben Nakian," Quadrum,no. I , 1961, pp. 95-102.
Introduction to TraditionalArt of the AfricanNations in the
Museumof PrimitiveArt (New York, I96 ).
Foreword to Three Regions of PrimitiveArt (LectureSeries
NumberTwo) (New York, 196 ), pp. 8-9.
I962
The GreatBieri (New York, I962).
Robert Maillard,
Contributor: Dictionaryof ModernSculpture,
gen. ed. (New York, I962).
"Art Chronicle: A Surfeit of the New," PartisanReview,29
(1962),
no. I, pp. 116-121.
"Reflections on the Rothko Exhibition," Mark Rothko,exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle, Basel (Basel, I962). (In
English and German; under the auspices of the International Council, Museum of Modern Art.)
i8i
1967 (continued)
1962 (continued)
Review: Harold Rosenberg, ArshileGorky:TheMan, the Time,
the Idea, in "The Genius of the Moujik," SaturdayReview,
(New York, I967).
"L'Exp6rience occidentale de l'art negre," in Fonctionet sig-
45 (I962), no. 20, p. 38.
"Art Chronicle: Masters of the New," PartisanReview, 29
nification de l'art negre dans la vie du peuple et pour le peuple
(Colloque/Festival Mondial des Arts Negre, Ier, Dakar)
(I962), no. 3, pp. 416-420.
Foreword to TheJohn andDominiquede MenilCollection,exhibition catalogue, Museum of Primitive Art (New York,
(Paris, 1967), pp. 347-36i.
1968
"From ...
I962).
by ...
and for . . . Ralph C. Altman," African
arts/arts d'Afrique, I (1968), no. 2, pp. 36-39, 78-79.
1963
"Symbolic Form: Symbolic Content," in Problemsof the Igth
& 20th Centuries(Studies in Western Art, IV) (Princeton,
I963), pp. I I I-2
Space and Dream, exhibition catalogue, Knoedler Gallery
.
"Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York: Primitive Art
and the Twentieth Century," in GreatPrivateCollections,
Douglas Cooper, ed. (New York, I963), pp.
270-281.
from Africain the Museumof PrimitiveArt, exhibition
Sculpture
catalogue, Museum of Primitive Art (New York, 1963).
Review: Man Ray, Self-Portrait,in "An Exciting Ride in the
Van," Saturday Review, 46 (I963), no. 33, p. I9.
1964
from WestAfrica(New York, 1964).
SenufoSculpture
Contributor: AfricanFolktalesandSculpture,Paul Radin, ed.,
2nd ed. (New York, I964).
Review: Christopher Gray, Sculptureand Ceramicsof Paul
Gauguin,in New YorkReviewof Books,2 (1964), no. 2, p. 9.
Review: Albert Elsen, Rodin,in New YorkReviewof Books,2
1969
"Judgements of Primitive Art, I905-I965,"
in Tradition and
in TribalArt, Daniel P. Biebuyck,ed. (BerkeleyCreativity
Los Angeles, 1969), pp. 24-4 .
"Art of Oceania, Africa, and the Americas," TheMetropolitan
Museum of Art Bulletin, 27 (I969), n.s., no. 9, pp. 397-410.
Introduction, and section on "Africa" (with Tamara Northfrom theMuern), for Artof Oceania,Africa,andtheAmericas
seumofPrimitiveArt,exhibition catalogue, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art (New York, I969).
Review:
Rene S. Wassing, African Art, Its Background and
Traditions;Michel Leiris and Jacqueline Delange, African
Art, in "Black is Beautiful," New YorkReviewof Books, 13
(I969), no. II, pp. 36-40.
I970
What is Modern Sculpture? (New York, I970).
(I964), no. 7, p. I .
Review: Sam Hunter and Hans Hofmann, HansHofmann,in
New YorkReview of Books, 3 (1964), no. 5, pp. I7-I8.
1971
"Rothko's Black Paintings," Art in America, 59 (1971), no. 2,
pp. 58-63.
I965
"Bonnard," The Lugano Review, I (1965), no. I, pp. I29-I37.
"Truth to What?" Arts rearbook8: Contemporary
Sculpture,
1965, pp. 64-73.
1966
"The Glory that Was France," Art News, 65 (I966), no. I,
pp. 40-42, 84-86.
1972
"The Sculpture of Matisse," Art in America, 60 (I972), no. 2,
pp. 40-45.
I973
"Art History and Anthropology: Some Comparisons of
Methodology," in PrimitiveArt andSociety,Anthony Forge,
ed. (London-New
York, I973), pp.
1-10.
1967
Primitivismin ModernArt, revised ed. (New York, 1967).
Foreword to TheAsmatof New Guinea:TheJournalof Michael
Clark Rockefeller,Adrian A. Gerbrands, ed. (New York,
I967), PP. 5-7-
Introduction to FranzKline: ig0o-i962, exhibition catalogue,
Marlborough-GersonGallery (New York, 1967), pp. 5-8.
Also published as "Franz Kline: Darkness Visible," Art
News, 66 (I967), no. I, pp. 38-43, 77.
"Problems of Criticism, I: Varieties of Critical Experience,"
Artforum, 6 (I967), no. I, pp. 40-41.
"Letters," Artforum,6 (1967), no. 4, p. 4.
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Compiledby Phyllis Tuchman.(BernardKarpel,Librarianof the
Museumof ModernArt, New rork, and the Librarystaff at the
Museumof PrimitiveArt, New York,graciouslyaidedin thepreparationof this bibliography.)