a "pioneer of modern art in America" in a 1945 Life magazine article. In 1948, Look magazine reported on a survey among art experts to determine the greatest living American artists; Weber was rated second, behind only John Marin. He was the subject of a major traveling retrospective in 1949. He became more popular in the 1940s and 1950s for his figurative work, often expressionist renderings of Jewish families, rabbis, and Talmudic scholars, than for the early modernist work he had abandoned circa 1920 and on which his current reputation is founded. Not everyone believed that Weber fulfilled his early potential as he became a more representational and expressionist painter post-World War I. Critic Hilton Kramer wrote of him that, in light of the remarkable beginning of his career, "Weber proved instead to be one of the great disappointments of twentieth-century American art." Others however, because of his bold "Cubist decade," hold him in the same high regard as other native modernists like John Marin, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Charles Demuth. Poetry While lecturing at the Clarence H. White School for Photography, Weber wrote his Cubist Poems that were to be published in 1914. In 1926, the artist released another collection entitled "Primitives: Poems and Woodcuts." Weber designed the modernist-style binding for the book, as well as providing eleven woodcuts for the illustrations. First published by Spiral Press in a run of 350 copies, original editions are now rare. :Cubes, cubes, cubes, cubes, High, low and high, and higher, higher, Far, far out, out, far.. Billions of things upon things This for the eye, the eye of being, At the edge of the Hudson, Flowing timeless, endless, On, on, on, on.... Excerpt from The Eye Moment, a Weber poem published in 1914 Gallery Collections Collections containing Weber's work include: Addison Gallery of American Art Art Institute of Chicago Berkshire Museum Blanton Museum of Art Brooklyn Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Corcoran Gallery of Art Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Detroit Institute of Art Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Harvard Art Museums Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Huntington Library Jewish Museum (New York) Los Angeles County Museum of Art Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art Memorial Art Gallery Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Modern Art National Gallery of Art Newark Museum New Britain Museum of American