McDonnell, Patricia Joan — American Artists in Expressionist Berlin: Ideological Crosscurrent in the Early Modernism of America and Germany, 1905-1915

Providence, RI, Brown University, 1991. Softcover. Dissertation, copied from microfilm by UMI. Blue wraps, 371 pp. BW illus. Dissertation. "This study examines the multiple contexts which conditioned why Americans would elect to spend expatriate Wanderjahre in pre-World War I Germany and the impact of that decision upon their art." (preface) With a specific focus on Marsden Hartley and Oscar Bluemner. McDonnell has gone on to work in a number of major museums. She is currently the director of the Wichita Art Museum. VG- (Label & few marks from previous gallery owner; BW illustrations are not recognizable due to the photocopying process.) .