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Walter Pach

Walter Pach
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Artist
Aline Fruhauf, 1907 - 1978
Sitter
Walter Pach, 11 Jul 1883 - 27 Nov 1958
Date
1932
Type
Drawing
Medium
Ink on paper, graphite pencil, and white opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Image/Sheet: 24.9 × 18.9 cm (9 13/16 × 7 7/16")
Topic
Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache
Caricature
Costume\Dress Accessory\Neckwear\Tie\Necktie
Walter Pach: Visual Arts\Artist
Walter Pach: Male
Walter Pach: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Lecturer
Walter Pach: Visual Arts\Art critic
Walter Pach: Education and Scholarship\Scholar\Translator
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Erwin P. Vollmer
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Copyright
© Estate of Aline Fruhauf
Object number
NPG.89.197
Exhibition Label
Born New York City
The artist and art critic Walter Pach was an influential champion of modern art who asserted, “Art must
be modern because life must be modern.” Pach is best remembered for organizing the International Exhibition of Modern Art (1913), known as the Armory Show, which introduced avant-garde European art to audiences across the United States. Though based in New York City, he lived abroad intermittently, including in Mexico City. While teaching at the National University of Mexico in 1922, Pach befriended contemporary Mexican artists, including Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. He promoted their work in the United States through publications and exhibitions; he also made and exhibited paintings inspired by Mexico.
Pach may have met the artist Aline Fruhauf at the Art Students League in Manhattan, where Pach served as an instructor during the fall of 1932. Fruhauf’s caricature of him appeared in the November 1932 issue of Creative Art magazine.
Nacido en la Ciudad de Nueva York
Influyente defensor del arte moderno, el artista y crítico de arte Walter Pach afirmó: “el arte debe ser moderno porque la vida debe ser moderna”. Se le recuerda por haber organizado la Exposición Internacional de Arte Moderno (1913), conocida como el Armory Show, que presentó el arte de las vanguardias europeas al público estadounidense.
Aunque radicado en Nueva York, vivió por ratos en el extranjero, incluida Ciudad de México. Allí fue profesor en la Universidad Nacional en 1922 e hizo amistad con artistas mexicanos contemporáneos como Diego Rivera y José Clemente Orozco, cuyas obras promovió en EE.UU. mediante publicaciones y exposiciones. También pintó y expuso obras propias inspiradas en México.
Es posible que Pach conociera a la artista Aline Fruhauf en la Liga de Estudiantes de Arte en Manhattan, donde fue instructor en el otoño de 1932. La caricatura que le hizo Fruhauf apareció en la revista Creative Art en noviembre de 1932.
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Exhibition
20th Century Americans: 1900-1930 (re-installation 2012)
On View
NPG, South Gallery 322