Sidney Janis American Designer
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| First Name |
Sidney
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| Last Name |
Janis
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| Birthday |
8th July, 1896
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| Birthplace |
Buffalo, New York
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| Died |
23rd November, 1989
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| Place of Death |
New York City
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| Zodiac Sign |
Cancer
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| Religion |
Jewish
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Art dealer, writer
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| Occupation |
Designer
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| Year(s) Active |
1948–1986
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Sidney Janis (July 8, 1896 – November 23, 1989) was a wealthy clothing manufacturer and art collector who opened an art gallery in New York in 1948. His gallery quickly gained prominence, for he not only exhibited the work of most of the emerging leaders of Abstract Expressionism, but also that of such important European artists as Pierre Bonnard, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, and Piet Mondrian. As the critic Clement Greenberg explained in a 1958 tribute to the dealer, Janis' exhibition practices had helped to establish the legitimacy of the Americans, for his policy "not only implied, it declared, that Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Phillip Guston, Mark Rothko, and Robert Motherwell were to be judged by the same standards as Matisse and Picasso, without condescension, without making allowances." Greenberg observed that in the late 1940s "the real issue was whether ambitious artists could live in this country by what they did ambitiously. Sidney Janis helped as much as anyone to see that it was decided affirmatively."
