Exhibitions
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (currently known)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.
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Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, N.C.
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Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Churchill, Allen “Improper Bohemians”
Dalton 1959, New York
Hellman, George S. “Lanes of Memory”
Frontpiece illustration
Alfred A. Knopf 1927, New York
Parry, Albert “Garrets & Pretenders”
Covici-Friede, Inc 1933, New York
Poore, Henry Rankin “Modern Art, Why, What & How”
G.P. Putname Sons 1931, New York &
London
CATALOGUES
1927 “11th Annual Exhibition of the Society of
Independent Artists” Society of Independent
Artists, New York, N.Y.
1927 “Exposition D’Oeuvres du Peintre Americain
Clivette” Chez Bernheim-Jeune Editeures D’Art,
Paris, France
1927 “Exhibition of Modern Art”
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln
Park San Francisco, CA
1929 “Exhibition of Watercolor Paintings, Pastels and
Drawings by American and European Artists and
Miniatures by the Brooklyn Society of Miniature
painters” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1929 “Who’s Who in Art 1929”
American Art Annual Vol XXVI
American Federation of Arts, Washington D.C.
1929 “Spring Salon 1929”
Salons of America, Inc, New York, N.Y.
1929 “Free Exhibition of Gustave Nassauer’s Collection of
Paintings by Clivette” Art Center, New York, N.Y.
1930 “Paintings & Sculptures by Living Americans”
Museum of Modern Art & Plandome Press,
New York, N.Y.
1932 “Notable Paintings & Drawings Chiefly of the
Modern School” American-Anderson Notes, Vol III
#3 American Art Association, Anderson Galleries Inc,
New York, N.Y.
2004 “Merton Clivette, The Man in Black”
CaliforniaView Fine Arts, Los Gatos, CA
Articles
Jan 2, 1927 L’Art Vivant, “New Artists” by P.H.
Jan 15, 1927 New York Sun, review by Henry McBride
Jan 15, 1927 New York Evening Post
Jan 22, 1927 New York Evening Post
Jan 23, 1927 New York Times
Jan 24, 1927 Time Magazine
Jan 29, 1927 Art News
Feb 1, 1927 Art Digest, “Clivette Arrives with a Boomity Boom”
Mar 15, 1927 Art Digest
May 27, 1927 Artists & Models Magazine, “The World of Art”
by Jeremy Warner
Jun 18, 1927 Art News
Jul 24, 1927 New York Times, “Now on Exhibition in Paris”
by Ruth Green Harris
Aug 1927 Art Digest, “Clivette in Paris”
Dec 1927 Art Digest
Dec 24, 1927 Art News
Dec 31, 1927 Christian Science Monitor, review by Ralph Flint
Jan 1928 Creative Art, “Gallery Notes” by Marya Mannes
Feb 19, 1928 San Francisco Examiner, “Two New Canvases
by Clivette at Palace”
Nov 1928 Art Digest
Dec 16, 1928 Detroit Free Press
Dec 17, 1928 Time Magazine
Dec 20, 1928 Detroit Evening Times, by Ralph Holmes
Dec 22, 1928 Art News
Feb 1929 Argus Magazine, “Oakland Debunks Clivette”
Feb 1929 Argonant Magazine, “The Clivette Invasion”
by Junius Cravens
Feb 1929 Oakland Tribune, “Is Clivette an Artist or Faker”
by Florence W. Lehre
Feb 1929 Art Digest
Nov 24, 1929 New York Herald Tribune, review
by Carlisle Burrows
Nov 24, 1929 New York Times
Nov 24, 1929 Journal American, review
by William B. McCormick
Nov 24, 1929 New York World
Aug 17, 1930 Brooklyn Daily Times, review
by Lillian Semons
Sep 1930 Art Digest
Sep 4, 1930 The New York Evening Post, review
by Aaron Marc Stein
May 9, 1931 New York Times, “Merton Clivette, Artist Dies at 62”
May 9, 1931 New York Sun, “Clivette Dies at Age 62”
May 9, 1931 New York World-Telegram, “Clivette Orders
Ashes Flung to the Four Winds”
Aug 30, 1931 Los Angeles Times, “Clivette the Eternalist”
Dec 12, 1932 New York Evening Post, review
by Aaron Marc Stein
Apr 23, 1933 New York Enquirer, “Clivette Paintings
Now on Exhibition”
Feb 25 1934 Philadelphia Record, review by Weldon Bailey
Dec 25, 1934 Philadelphia Public Ledger
Oct 1993 Art & Auction, “Merton Clivette at Couturier”
by Leigh Ann Clifton
Note: The information on this resume was derived from primary sources researched by the descendants of Merton Clivette. The resume continues to be updated as more information is discovered regarding exhibitions, publications, commissions and works held in public and private collections