Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Art Students League of New York, Barnes Foundation
Known for
Painting
Movement
Precisionism
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship
Waterfront 1940, Detroit Institute of Arts
Francis Hyman Criss (1901 - 1973) was an American painter. Criss's style is associated with the American Precisionists like Charles Demuth and his friend Charles Sheeler.
"Francis Criss". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 3 September 2021.</ref>
The work from his best-known years, the 1930s and 1940s, is characterized by imagery of the urban environment, such as elevated subway tracks, skyscrapers, streets, and bridges. Criss rendered these subjects with a streamlined, abstracted style, devoid of human figures, that led him to be associated with the Precisionism movement. With distorted perspectives and dream-like juxtapositions, as in Jefferson Market Courthouse (1935), these empty cityscapes also suggest the influence of Surrealism.[citation needed]
A turn towards more commercial work later in his career—including a November 1942 cover for Fortune Magazine—led to a decline in his reputation.[citation needed] Criss died in 1973 in New York City.[1]
His work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum,[2] the Detroit Institute of Arts,[3] the Philadelphia Museum of Art,[4] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[1] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[5]
In 2021 Criss' painting Alma Sewing was featured in an essay by the art critic Sebastian Smee in the Washington Post. Smee considers Alma Sewing to be Criss' finest work.[6] The painting in the collection of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia.[7]
^ ab"Francis Criss". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
^"City Landscape". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
^"Waterfront". Detroit Institute of Arts. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
^"Words and Music of Two Hemispheres". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
^"Francis Criss | Astor Place". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
^Smee, Sebastian. "Francis Criss painted 'Alma Sewing' as a study of composure, and unruliness". Washington Post. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
^"Alma Sewing". High Museum of Art. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
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