“Dorothy Adlow—Art Critic as Prophet and Pastor of the Boston Expressionists”

In 1925 Dorothy Adlow completed her first year as art critic for The Christian Science Monitor. While forging a strong national reputation, Adlow gave singular attention to the Boston Expressionists. Chief among them was Hyman Bloom who probed the metaphysics of corporeal disintegration. Like Bloom, others in the group integrated occult and mystical themes with references to the Jewish and Christian Bible. Noone knew these artists better than Adlow.  In her reviews of the Boston Expressionists, one discovers the interplay and influence of traditional religion and new religious movements in modern art in the Jazz Age and beyond. 

Theme: “Arts, Literature, and Religion at the Centennial of 1925”