Janis, Sidney, 1896-1989
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- Art index, Oct. 1941/Sept. 1944(Janis, Sidney, 1897-)
- Author's They taught themselves ... 1942.
- Grove. Dict. of art online, Feb. 1, 2005(Janis, Sidney; b. Buffalo, NY, 8 July 1896; d. New York, 23 Nov 1989; American dealer, collector and writer)
- LC data base, 10-12-89(hdg.: Janis, Sidney, 1897- ; usage: Sidney Janis)
- WW Amer. art, 1986(Janis, Sidney; b. July 8, 1896)
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Sidney Janis (July 8, 1896 – November 23, 1989) was a wealthy clothing manufacturer and art collector who opened an art gallery in New York City in 1948. His gallery quickly gained prominence, for he not only exhibited work by the Abstract Expressionists, but also European artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, and Piet Mondrian. As critic Clement Greenberg explained in a 1958 tribute to Janis, the dealer's exhibition practices had helped to establish the legitimacy of the Americans, for his policy "not only implied, it declared, that Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Phillip Guston, Mark Rothko, and Robert Motherwell were to be judged by the same standards as Matisse and Picasso, without condescension, without making allowances." Greenberg observed that in the late 1940s "the real issue was whether ambitious artists could live in this country by what they did ambitiously. Sidney Janis helped as much as anyone to see that it was decided affirmatively."
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