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Andrea Geyer, Constellations (Carrie Stettheimer after Genthe), 2018

Andrea Geyer

Constellations (Carrie Stettheimer after Genthe), 2018
Hand-cut archival print on rag paper
89.2 x 67.9 cm
35 1/8 x 26 3/4 in
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Carrie Stettheimer (1869–1944) was one of three daughters born to a wealthy family in Rochester, New York. After spending much of her childhood in Europe, she and her family returned...
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Carrie Stettheimer (1869–1944) was one of three daughters born to a wealthy family in Rochester, New York. After spending much of her childhood in Europe, she and her family returned to New York City at the start of World War I. The Stettheimer family often hosted invite only parties at their rented Hudson River summerhouse. They would entertain guests from New York’s avant-garde, such as artists like Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and writers and critics, Henry McBride and Carl Van Vechten, Leo and Gertrude Stein, Baron Adolphe de Meyer, Avery Hopwood, Marquis de Buenavista and Rockwell Kent, among others. By 1916, the Stettheimer sisters had an established salon in New York. They became regular affairs in their Upper West Side brownstone on West 76th street, and later in midtown’s Alwyn Court on West 58th street. Their salons were semi-public events in a private residence where artists and intelligentsia from all social classes would gather.

Each sister had their own role in the matriarchal salons. Carrie was the one that would stay home and care for their mother so she would organize and plan the event. She was the hostess, managing the extravagant dinner menus, including imaginative dishes like feather soup. She never dressed in trendy clothes, but rather elegant fashions of the past. Her greatest pleasures were reading and conversation. All of the sisters exemplified in their own way the idea of the “new woman” of the early 20th century.

While Carrie Stettheimer mainly managed the large household, she also undertook a perculiar art project which replicated the family home in miniature, even enlisting artist friends to create miniatures of their paintings and sculptures to decorate the two story, sixteen room house. Stettheimer spent twenty-five years on it, filling the house with reproductions of period furniture and replica light fixtures and lampshades. The model is on permanent display at the Museum of the City of New York (2018).
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Exhibitions

European Trails, Center for Contemporary Art, Ausberg, Germany (2022)

Literature

Alhena Katsof, Karen Kelly, Barbara Schröder, Andrea Geyer: Dance in a Future with All Present, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art: Portland, OR, USA; and Dancing Foxes Press: Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2019
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