Walter Pach

Is it true that talent will out? Or is it truer to say, as WALTER PACH believes, that there are submerged artists in every generation, painters whose excellence is not recognized until long after their deaths? Artist and author, JJ alter Pctch studied at the New York School of Art and at the Academic Hanson in Paris, and in addition to his one-man shows has exhibited with the Independent Artists yearly since 1917. He is the biographer of Seurat, Duchamp-Villon, Van Gogh, and Ingres, and is the author of widely read studies on modern art.

Artist and author, WALTER PACH was born in New York City in 1883, studied at the New York School of Art and at the Academic Hanson in Paris, and in addition to his one-man shows has exhibited with the Independent Artists yearly since 1917. The biographer of Georges Seurat, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Van Gogh, and Ingres and the author of widely read studies on modern art. Mr. Pach now evaluates for Atlantic readers the life and work of John Sloan — his versatility, his dedication, his contribution to American art.

Artist and author, WALTER PACH was born in Now Yorh City in 1883, studied at the New York School of Art and at the Académic Ranson in Paris, and in addition to his one-man shows has exhibited with the Independent Artists yearly since 1917. The biographer of Georges Seurat, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Van Gogh, and Ingres, and the author of widely read studies on modern art, Mr. Pach continues for Atlantic readers the argument initiated by Francis Henry Taylor, Director of the Metropolitan Museum, in “Modern Art and the Dignity of Man.”