C. J. Bulliet

C. J. Bulliet
Born16 March 1883 Edit this on Wikidata
Died20 October 1952 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 69)
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OccupationWriter Edit this on Wikidata

Clarence Joseph Bulliet (March 16, 1883 – October 20, 1952) was an American art critic and author.[1]

Biography

Bulliet grew up in Corydon, Indiana and graduated in 1904 from Indiana University Bloomington.

For nine years he pursued a journalism career in the city of Indianapolis. When Robert Mantell, the head of a Shakespearean touring theatre company, remarked that he liked Bulliet's theater reviews, Bulliet offered to become his press agent. Bulliet traveled in advance of the company throughout the United States and Canada during a period of nine years, except for one year when he was a regional publicist for D. W. Griffith's silent film The Birth of a Nation (1915). After a brief return to newspaper journalism in Louisville, Kentucky, Bulliet moved to Chicago to edit Magazine of the Art World, a weekly periodical published by the Chicago Evening Post. Art criticism remained his primary occupation even after the Post was assimilated by the Chicago Daily News in 1932.

Bulliet played a role in popularizing of modern art in the Midwestern United States, and in organizing Chicago's independent artists, who felt snubbed by the conservative tastes that dominated the Chicago Art Institute.

Personal life

He was married to southern Indiana artist Katherine Adams Bulliet; they had one son, Leander Jackson. After the death of his first wife in 1947 he married Catherine Girdler Bulliet. C. J. Bulliet is the grandfather of Columbia University historian Richard Bulliet.

For a time his lover was the painter Macena Barton,[2] who once challenged his assertion that no woman had ever painted a worthwhile nude.[3]

Books

  • Robert Mantell's Romance (1918)[4]
  • Apples and Madonnas (1927) is an introduction to modern art.[5]
  • Venus Castina (1928) explores the topic of female impersonation.
  • The Courtesan Olympia: An Intimate Survey of Artists and their Mistress-Models (1930)[6]
  • Art Masterpieces of the 1933 Worlds Fair Exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1933)[7]
  • The Significant Moderns and Their Pictures (1936)[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Clarence Bulliet letters to Katherine Adams, 1902-1904, C552 // Digital Collections". digitalcollections.iu.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
  2. ^ "HJB". Hjbltd.com. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  3. ^ "Macena Barton – Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Macena Barton". Askart.com. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  4. ^ "Robert Mantell's romance, by C. J. Bulliet". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
  5. ^ C.J. Bulliet (1930-01-01). Apples and Madonnas: Emotional Expression in Modern Art. Internet Archive. Blue Ribbon Books.
  6. ^ www.bibliopolis.com. "The Courtezan Olympia: An Intimate Survey of Artists and their Mistress-Models by C. J BULLIET on Between the Covers". Between the Covers. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
  7. ^ Bulliet, C. J. (Clarence Joseph) (1933). Art masterpieces in a Century of Progress Fine Arts Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago: Sterling North, [1933] [©1933].
  8. ^ C. J. Bulliet (1936). The Significant Moderns And Their Pictures.