Walter Arensberg | American poet and collector | Britannica (original) (raw)

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art criticism

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  In art criticism: Avant-garde art comes to America
  ” Yet the millionaire Walter Arensberg supported Duchamp, a gesture that was a harbinger of the coziness that would develop between art and money, fueled in part by the possibilities of speculation in the unregulated art market. Major private collections of avant-garde art emerged—perhaps most noteworthily that of Albert…
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Dada movement

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  In Dada
  …and at the studio of Walter Arensberg and his wife, Louise, both wealthy patrons of the arts. At these locations, Dada-like activities, arising independently but paralleling those in Zürich, were engaged in by such artists as Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Morton Schamberg, and Francis Picabia. The
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Duchamp

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  In Marcel Duchamp: Farewell to art
  The wealthy poet and collector Walter Arensberg arranged a studio for him in his own home, where the painter immediately set to work on The Large Glass. He became the centre of the Arensberg group, enjoying a reputation that led to many offers from art galleries eager to handle the…
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