Nathaniel Pousette-Dart Periodicals
The periodicals Art and Artists of Today and The Art of Today are known to have been published intermittently, respectively, from 1937–38, and 1934–35. It remains unclear if additional issues were produced and distributed. Nathaniel Pousette-Dart served as editor and frequent contributor to Art and Artists of Today, with Clayton Spicer as manager of production and advertising. The Art of Today was published by Russel Crofoot, with Nathaniel Pousette-Dart as editor and Clayton Spicer serving as managing editor.
All magazines are freely accessible below in PDF format, subject to standard fair-use scholarly guidelines.
Vol 6, no. 1, December 1934
Subjects, artists, and writers include: Alexander Brook (cover art); Creative Criticism (editorial); John Dewey; Joseph Stella; Peter Blume, by Edward Yaghjian; Joseph Stella; Henry Mattson; Gertrude Stein; Alfred Stieglitz; Forbes Watson; Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney; Albert C. Barnes; Reginald Marsh; Peggy Bacon; Thomas Craven, by Nathaniel Pousette-Dart; Picasso; Matisse; James McNeil Whistler; John Sloan; Thomas Hart Benton; John Marin; Charles Burchfield; I. Rice Pereira; Lewis C. Daniel; Magazines; Charles Despiau; Grant Wood; Articles for Subsequent Issues; William Zorach; Alexander Brook; Thomas Donnelly; Adolph Glassgold; To A Modern Artist (poem), by Flora Louise Pousette-Dart; Lectures; Mary E. Hutchinson; Contemporary Arts, (organization), by Emily A. Francis; Jon Corbino; Van Gogh; Lust for Life, by Irving Stone, reviewed by Clayton Spicer; Pop Hart; Harry Wickey; Where to See the Art of Today; Advertisements; Edy Legrand.
Vol 6, no. 2, February 1935
Subjects, artists, and writers include: Thomas Hart Benton (cover art); Where We Stand (editorial); Edward Alden Jewell; Alfred Stieglitz, by Dorothy Norman; Howard Cook; We Honor President Roosevelt, Mayor LaGuardia, Duncan Philips, Edward Bruce; Yasuo Kuniyoshi; A New Deal for the Artist, by Thomas Donnelly; Harry Wickey; John Steuart Curry, by Nathaniel Pousette-Dart; André Dunoyer de Segonzac, by Martha Candler; Bernard Karfiol; Expressionism in Art by Sheldon Cheney, review by Flora Louise Pousette-Dart; Dorothy Varian; Edward Bruce; Louis Bouché; Edward Hopper Objects (letter to the editor); Charles Burchfield; Contemporary Arts (organization); Kenneth Bates; Studio News, by Clayton Spicer; Maurice Becker, Peggy Bacon; Frank Vincent DuMond; Maurice Freedman; Where to See Art Today; Harry Sternberg; Advertisements.
Vol 6, no. 3, April 1935
Subjects, artists, and writers include: Arnold Blanch (cover art); What is All This Hullabaloo About the American Scene (editorial); Thomas Craven; Georgia O’Keeffe; Sinclair Lewis; Winslow Homer; Thomas Eakins; Robert Henri; John Sloan and the Native Scene, by Martha Candler; Aristide Maillol; Reginald Marsh; Ideas on American Sculpture, by William Zorach; Gaston Lachaise; John Marin; Joseph De Martini; Arthur Dove; Intellectual Inventiveness and Emotional Creativeness, by Nathaniel Pousette-Dart; Earl Horter; Gaudier Breszka; Boris Grigorieff; Ivan Meštrović; Matisse; Grant Wood; John Steuart Curry; Yasuo Kuniyoshi; Van Gogh; Gauguin; George Ault; Abstract Painting in America, by Stuart Davis; Lucile Blanch; Charles Burchfield; Olin Dows; Fourth Dimension (poem), by Flora Louise Pousette-Dart; Henri Burkhard; Contemporary Arts (organization); Tekla Hoffman; Short Reviews, by Clayton Spicer; Royal Cortissoz; Henry McBride; Art Commentary on Lynching (exhibition); Morris Kantor; Where to See Art Today; Katherine Schmidt; Advertisements.
Vol 6, no. 4, May 1935
Subjects, artists, and writers include: John Steuart Curry (cover art); The Artist and the Growing Interest of Amateurs in Art (editorial); Have We An American Art?, by Edward Alden Jewell; Walt Kuhn; The Yankee as Artist, by Donald Carlisle Greason; Doris Rosenthal; Isabel Bishop; Gaston Lachaise; An Analysis of Design, Composition and Organization, by Nathaniel Pousette-Dart; Ernest Fenollosa; Arthur Wesley Dow; Henry R. Poore; John Dewey; Albert Ryder; George Bellows; Robert Henri; Howard Giles; Emil Bistram; Adolph Best-Maugard; Diego Rivera; Katharine Dreier; Thomas Hart Benton; Huntington Wright; Albert C. Barnes; Thomas Munro; The Place of the Cliché, by Flora Louise Pousette-Dart; John Kane; Harry Hering; Judson Smith; Thomas Hart Benton; Contemporary Arts (organization); Dorothy Kreymborg; Short Reviews, by Clayton Spicer; A. F. Levinson; Joseph De Martini; Art Front magazine; John Kane; American Genre at the Whitney Museum of American Art; African Negro Art at The Museum of Modern Art; John Sloan; Where to See the Art of Today; Advertisements.
Vol. 1 no. 1, March 1937
Subjects, artists, and writers include: Eugene Speicher (cover art); Reginald Marsh; Yasuo Kuniyoshi; Art Over America, by Nathaniel Pousette-Dart; Thomas Craven; John Steuart Curry; Thomas Hart Benton; Grant Wood; Robert Blum; Charles Burchfield; Alexander Brook; Max Weber; Harry Wickey; Peggy Bacon; Sanford Ross; George Biddle; Rosella Hartman; Henry Billings; Raphael Soyer; Katherine Schmidt; John Kane; Doris Lee; Judson Smith; Doris Rosenthal; Arnold Blanch; Lewis C. Daniel; George Grosz; William Zorach; Ruben Nakian; Ernest Fiene; Peppino Mangravite; George Picken; Henry Sternberg; Thomas Donnelly; Rockwell Kent; Gauguin; Rivera; Orozco; Giorgio de Chirico; Guy Pène Du Bois, by Martha Chandler; Henry Lee McFee; Aristide Maillol; William Zorach; Henri Gaudier-Brzeska; Lucy Eisenberg; Cecil C. Bell; Joseph Varak; Helen Blackmer Dickson; Bob Brown; Contemporary Arts (organization); Emory Ladanyi; Significant Exhibitions; Glenn O. Coleman, George Luks, William Glackens; Ernest Lawson; John Bellows; Henry Mattson; Art Books Reviewed,, by Flora Louise Pousette-Dart; Gauguin; Exhibition Calendar; The Art Students’ League, by Daniel Kern; Adolph Dehn; An Amateur Artist, Dr. M.B.S. Fleischer, by Clayton Hoagland; John Marin; John Sloan; Allen Tucker; Joan Miró; Just Gossip; Letters to the Editor; Useful Suggestions, by Clayton Spicer.
Vol. 1 no. 2, May 1937
Subjects, artists, and writers include: Reuben Nakian (cover art); Ben Zion; Emil Ganso; The World’s Fair and the Creative Artist; Lewis C. Daniel; Jon Corbino, by Nathaniel Pousette-Dart; Letters to the Editor; Howard Cook; George Grosz; George Biddle; Gaston Lachaise; William Zorach; Rosella Hartman; Eve Kottgen; Eugene Morley; Will Barnet; Where is Sculpture Heading?, by A.M. Pindge; Frederick Harer; Chaim Gross; Jose de Creeft; Zadkine; Art Books Reviewed, by Elizabeth A. Douglas; Does Picasso Creative Like a Child? A Few Impressions of America, by Karl Nierendorf; Exhibition Calendar; Rhythmic Art, by Anne Reynolds; Blanc-Gatti; M. Lois Murphy; B.J.O Nordfelt; Peter Ompir Corrals an Average Citizen at His Own Peril, by Peter Ompir; A Word for Conservative Painting, by John Newton Howitt; Kenneth Callahan; Peter M. Camfferman; Walter F. Isaacs; Viola Patterson; M. Lois Murphy; Gossip; Useful Suggestions, by Clayton Spicer; Advertisements; Louis M. Eilshemius; David Burliuk.
Vol. 1 no. 3, September–October 1937
Subjects, artists, and writers include: Louis Bouche; Art Education: Today and Tomorrow; Morris Kantor; Walter Lippmann; Harry Wickey; The Sculpture of Robert Laurent, by Daniel Kern; Gaston Lachaise; Pacific Northwest Painters, by Kenneth Callahan; Louis Demott Bunce; Mark Tobey; Peter Camfferman; Morris Graves; Malcolm Roberts, Margaret Camfferman; Viola Patterson; Ambrose Patterson, Kamekichi Tokita, Kenjiro Nomura, Takuichi Fujii; Earl Fields; Andrew McD. Vincent; C.S. Price; David McCosh; William Fortune Ryan; Herbert Ackley; Daryl Foster; John Ballator; Charles Heany; Guy Anderson; Jacob Elshin; Raymond Hill; Louise Helmer; Land Elk; Lorna Lowry; Who’s Who, by Clayton Spicer; Letters to the Editor; Pamela Bianco; Arshile Gorky; Oronzio Maldarelli; Alfeo Faggi; Mary Earley; Clarence H. Carter; C. Yamasaki; Heinrich W. Schaefer-Simmern; Tempest in a Fountain, by Emily Grant Hutchings; Carl Milles; William Zorach; Contemporary Arts (organization); Nicholas Takis; Rudolf Belling; Reuben Nakian; Art Books Reviewed by Nathaniel Pousette-Dart and Irma deB. Sompayrac; John Graham; Herbert Read; La Caverne d’Altamira; Georges Roualt; Howard Cook; Adolf Dehn; Extracts from remarks by Charles Pratt, 1890; John Kane; Yasuo Kuniyoshi; Clark Minor; A Busy Business Man’s Hobby is Sculpture, by Clayton Spicer; The MacDowell Colony; Glenn Coleman; The Tiffany Foundation, by Charles B. Rogers; Gossip and Fact; Art Publications; Martha Crocker; Lists of Creative Artists; National American Art, by Arthur Millier; Art Publications; Useful Suggestions; Advertisements; Don Freeman; Harry Hering; Arshile Gorky; Harold Weston.
Vol 1 no. 4, November–December 1937
Subjects, artists, and writers include: Gaston Lachaise (cover art); Harwood Stieger; Ernest Fiene; Art Education, by Leo Katz; David Burliuk; Subject Matter is Not Art, by Louis Danz; Marsden Hartley; Albert Ryder; Plastic Counterpoint, by Nathaniel Pousette-Dart; Peter Brueghel; Heinz Warneke; The New Painters, by Jerry Bywaters; Everett Spruce; Vernon Hunter; William Lester; Don Brown; Alexandre Hogue; Otis Dozier; Harry Carnohan; Olin Travis; Frank Reaugh; Charles Bowling; Lloyd Goff; J.B. Martin; Thomas Stell; Perry Nichols; E.G. Eisenlohr; Arthur Niendorff; Reveau Bassett; H.O. Robertson; Allie V. Tennant; Dorothy Austin; Virginia Russ; Mike Owen; Kelly Stevens, John S. Canaday; Marvin Moyer, Edmund Kinzinger; Xavier Gonzales; Octavio Medellin, Ione Franklin, Caroline Burton; Letters to the Editor; Henry W. Schaefer-Simmern; Georgia O’Keeffe; Kenneth Hays Miller; Stuart Davis; Edward Bruce; Contemporary Arts (organization); Etienne Ret; Is Photography Art?, by William Sener Rusk; The Whitney Museum of American Art; Charles C. Rumsey; Publications; John McCrady; Jeffrey; William Fortune Ryman; Caleb Winholtz; Mac Gregor Omiston; Bernard J. Steffen; Georges Schreiber; Philip Evergood; Manuel Tolegian; Pure Sculpture, by T.N. Jermund; Milton Horn; Concetta Scaravaglione; Richard Warren Pousette-Dart; Art Books Reviewed, by Flora Louise Pousette-Dart and T.N. Jermund; The Business Man in Art, by Harry Hering; Art Life in the Galleries; As the Modernist Sees Nature, by Irma deB. Sompayrac; Karl Knaths; John D. Graham; Giotto; Monet; Cezanne; Carl A. Faille, by Dorothy Grafly; Gossip and Fact; Advertisements; George Grosz; Rockwell Kent; Moses Soyer; Boris Aronson; Useful Suggestions, by Clayton Spicer.
Vol 1 no. 5, February–March 1938
Subjects, artists, and writers include: Frederic Taubes (cover art); Francis Criss; Lewis C. Daniel; Walt Whitman; The Editor Looks at Art and Artists, by Nathaniel Pousette-Dart; Thomas Donnelly; Picasso; Jerome Klein; Max Beckmann; Boris Grigoriev; John Carroll; Kandinsky; Mondrian; Mexico, by John Graham; Marguerite Zorach; Apropos of the Guggenheim Foundation, by Childe Reece; Fernand Leger; George Biddle; Monet; Delacroix; Seurat; Cezanne; Picasso; Pissarro; Ingres; Brancusi; B.J.O. Nordfeld; Contemporary Scandinavian Painters, by Dr. Ernst Harms; Per Krogh; T. Sallinen; Jens Söndergaard; Leander Lengström; Isamu Noguchi; David Smith; Reuben Nakian; Letters; Louis Ribak; Paul Cadmus; A. Aronson; Henry Varnum Poor; Jane Jones; Wendell Jones; Contemporary Arts (organization); Is Photography Art? by Wiliam Sener Rusk; Conversation with Kuniyoshi, by Daniel Kern; Gossip and Fact; Andrew O’Connor; Warren Wheelock; John B. Flanagan; Vortex (poem), by Richard Warren Pousette-Dart; Jacob Getlar Smith; Ross Moffett; Remington Arthur; Lena Gur; Theodore Lux; Eitaro Ishigaki; Art Books Reviewed, by Elizabeth Brent; Art Life in the Galleries; T.N. Jermund, Lois Head, Clayton Spicer; Crudity in Art, by Ira deB. Sompayrac; Modern Art, by Liza Monk; Marsden Hartley; Leon Hartl; Don Rico; Antonio Ruiz; Useful Suggestions, by Clayton Spicer; Advertisements; Henry T. Leggett; Alberta A. Eno; H.L. Redman; Waylande Gregory; Oronzio Maldarelli; Emma Lu Davis.
Vol 1 no. 6, June–July 1938
Subjects, artists, and writers include: Oronzio Maldarelli (cover); Jerry Farnsworth; Aristide Maillol; Freedom of Expression, by Nathaniel Pousette-Dart; Gladys Rockmore Davis; Doris Rosenthal; Peppino Mangravite; Samuel Brecher; Rockwell Kent, by Lois Head; Salvador Dali and the New Art, by Morrill Cody; Camille Bombois; Hans Arp; Ralph M. Pearson; Letters; Millard Sheets; Allen Tucker; Louis Danz; I. deB. Sompayrac; Aristole; John Dewey; Berthold Ordner; Cornelia Van A. Chapin; John D. Graham; Serge Soudekine; Rudolf Jacobi; Leon Hartl; Reginald L. Grooms; Jacob Kainen; Sol Wilson; Stockburger; The Sculptor’s Guild (organization); Jose de Creeft; Helene Sardeau; Saul Baizerman; Book reviews, by T.N. Jermund, Elizabeth A. Douglas; Walt Kuhn; Goya; William Gropper; Art Life in the Galleries; Aline Kistler; Schmidt-Rottluff; Isaac Soyer; The Tropical Mr. Brown, by John Parker; Douglas Brown; Contemporary Arts (organization); John C. Pellew; Gossip and Fact; John Steuart Curry; Louis Pasteur; Arthur Faber; Cy Gyula Zilzer; Useful Suggestions, by Clayton Spicer. Advertisements; Frank C. Kirk; Harold Weston.