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Maurice Grosser (October 23, 1903 – December 22, 1986) was an American painter, art critic, and writer.




Biography


Maurice Grosser was born on October 23, 1903, in Huntsville, Alabama.
Grosser attended Harvard University where he studied mathematics, graduating with honors in 1924. While at university, a friend brought Grosser to a life painting class at the Boston Architectural School. From then on he continued life drawing there and at the South Boston Art School. While at Harvard, Grosser also took painting classes from Denman Ross. While still a student, Grosser's paintings were displayed at the Fogg Art Museum. Grosser was awarded Harvard's Sheldon Fellowship which allowed him to study painting in France.
He designed the scenario for two operas by Virgil Thomson: Four Saints in Three Acts (1934) and The Mother of Us All (1947). In 1985 he created 18 Portraits, and each lithograph was accompanied by a musical portrait composed by Thomson.
Grosser wrote four books on painting and art criticism: Painting in Public/Painting in Our Time (Alfred A. Knoff, 1948/Chater Books, 1964), The Painter's Eye (Rinehart and Co., 1951), Critic's Eye (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1962), and Painter's Progress (Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1971). At the time of his death, Grosser was writing a memoir entitled Visiting Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas which was posthumously published in The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (New York Review Books, 2006).
From 1956 to 1967 he served as art critic for The Nation.
From 1969–1970 he was a Visiting Professor of Art at the University of Ife, Nigeria.
Grosser died on December 22, 1986, in Manhattan and his ashes are interred at Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville.




Relationship with Virgil Thomson


Maurice and Virgil met in 1920 while both were attending meetings of The Liberal Club at Harvard but the intimate relationship between the two would not fully blossom until they met by chance in 1925 at Les Deux Magots, a café in Paris. The pair would continue their relationship as lovers and then as best friends for the rest of their lives.




One-man exhibitions


1923 - Sever Hall Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1925 - Grace Horne Gallery, Boston, MA
1931 - Galerie Vignon, Paris
1933 - Galerie des Quatre-Chemins, April 10 – 22, 1933, Paris
1935 - Hendryx Gallery, New York
1937 - Cadek Conservatory, Chattanooga, TN
1938 - Kunstzaal Benewitz, The Hague, The Netherlands
1938 - Galerie des Quatre-Chemins, April 10 – May 3, Paris
1939 - The Arts Club, Chicago, IL
July 26 – October 18, 1940 - New Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1940,41 - Julien Levy Gallery, New York
1941 - High Museum, Atlanta, GA
1942 - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1942 - Cadek Conservatory, Chattanooga, TN
January 19 – March 26, 1944 - New Acquisitions: 12 American Paintings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1944,46 - Julien Levy Gallery, New York
December 23, 1948 – March 13, 1949 - American Paintings from the Museum Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948, 50 - Knoedler Gallery, New York
1951 - University of Chattanooga Art Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
1954 - Hugo Gallery, New York
1955 - Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York
1957 - Carstairs Gallery, New York - Recent Paintings, Greece and Brazil
1958 - Carlen Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1960,62 - Carstairs Gallery, New York - Paintings of Morocco
1963,65,68 - Banfer Gallery, New York
1970 - Art Gallery, University of Ife, Nigeria
1971 - Hirschl & Adler Gallery, New York
1972,74 - Capricorn Gallery, Bethesda, MD
1974 - Boston Antheneum, Boston, MA
1974 - Larcada Gallery, New York
1976 - Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
1977 - Larcada Gallery, New York
1977 - Capricorn Gallery, Bethesda, MD
1979, 80, 82 - Fischbach Gallery, New York




Legacy


Paintings by Maurice Grosser are at the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Huntsville Museum of Art
The Maurice Grosser papers, 1919–1983, are at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Maurice Grosser Estate in the Goldsmith-Schiffman Family Collection in the Special Collections and Archives at the University of Alabama Huntsville.




References

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• John Gosden
• Grand Prix Swiss
• Michael Schumacher
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
• Scuderia Ferrari
• Grand Prix F1 Jerman 1964
• Grand Prix F1 Jerman 1962
• Grand Prix F1 Jerman 1961
• Maurice Grosser
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• Virgil Thomson
• Maria Chabot
• Michael Caine
• Zellig Harris
• Carl Van Vechten
• Richard and Maurice McDonald
• Gross (surname)