Museum of Living Art (1937) (Ben Nicholson’s Copy)

“The Museum of Living Art, New York University, was founded in order that the public might have an opportunity of studying the many phases of the newer influences at work in progressive twentieth-century painting”. Limited to 1200 copies. Catalogue for the museum’s collection of avant-garde art. Includes ‘On America and a Living Art’ by George Morris, ‘Painting’ by James Johnson Sweeney, and Jean Helion’s ‘The Evolution of Abstract Art As Shown in The Museum of Living Art’. “With its recent acquisions, The Museum of Living Art presents a clear definition of the denaturalization of the subject, and its progressive transformattion in free elements, neither men nor pipers, neither apples nor venuses for rent’.

From the library of Ben Nicholson and with his ownership label to top left corner of front paste-down.  Condition: backstrip (spine covering) largely detached and hanging loose, otherwise very good.