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Blaine Gledhill Larson
Blaine Gledhill Larson (July 13, 1937 – November 24, 2022) was a prominent American post-war abstract expressionist artist and educator allied with the Washington Color Painters active in the vibrant Washington DC area art scene centred around the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in the second half of the 20th century and early 21st century. Although often included in the second generation of Colour Painters, like Leon Berkowitz, he rejected the label for his work, insisting he was sui generis. Early life and education Blaine Gledhill Larson was born July 13, 1937, in Salt Lake City, UT to Blaine Cowley Larson and Margaret Gledhill. His father was very active in public service and local politics and his mother was a concert pianist. Between 1953 and 1958 he studied at Mills College, University of California at Berkley, and the San Francisco Art Institute. Under the tutelage of Robert Franklin Gates, He completed a Bachelor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in the state. The city is the core of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which had a population of 1,257,936 at the 2020 census. Salt Lake City is further situated within a larger metropolis known as the Salt Lake City–Ogden–Provo Combined Statistical Area, a corridor of contiguous urban and suburban development stretched along a segment of the Wasatch Front, comprising a population of 2,746,164 (as of 2021 estimates), making it the 22nd largest in the nation. With a population of 199,723 in 2020, it is the 111th most populous city in the United States. It is also the central core of the larger of only two major urban areas located within the Great Basin (the other being Reno, Nevada). Salt Lake City was founded on July 24, 1847 by settlers led by Brigham Young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catoctin Creek
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Catoctin Creek is the name of two streams in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States: *Catoctin Creek (Maryland) *Catoctin Creek (Virginia) Catoctin Creek is also a distillery in Purcellville, Virginia, in the United States: *Catoctin Creek Distilling Company The Catoctin Creek Distilling Company ( ), which operates under the trade name of Catoctin Creek, is the first legal distillery in Loudoun County, Virginia, since prohibition. The distillery is a certified Organic certification, organic and kosh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Gilliam
Sam Gilliam ( ; November 30, 1933 – June 25, 2022) was an American abstract Painting, painter, Sculpture, sculptor, and Visual arts education, arts educator. Born in Mississippi, and raised in Kentucky, Gilliam spent his entire adult life in Washington, D.C., eventually being described as the "Dean (education), dean" of the city's arts community. Originally associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington-area artists that developed a form of abstract art from color field painting in the 1950s and 1960s, Gilliam moved beyond the group's core aesthetics of flat fields of color in the mid-60s by introducing both Process art, process and sculptural elements to his paintings. Following early experiments in color and form, Gilliam became best known for his Drape paintings, ''Drape'' paintings, first developed in the late 60s and widely exhibited across the United States and internationally over the following decade. These works comprise unstretched paint-stained c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Greenly
Colin Greenly (1928–2014) was a visual artist active in the United States during the late 20th century and early 21st century. Biography (Bernard) Colin Greenly was born in London, England on January 21, 1928. He received his B.A. in 1948 from Harvard College. He studied at Columbia University School of Painting and Sculpture from 1951 to 1953. He also studied at the American University Graduate School of Fine Arts in 1956. Greenly lived and worked mostly in the areas around New York and Washington, DC. Greenly died on October 14, 2014. Early Education and Teaching In 1947, while a student at Harvard University, Greenly's first exhibit was an ink drawing at the Fogg Museum of Art. Upon graduation and after a three-year foray working in the field of advertising, he quit his job to attenColumbia University School of Painting and Sculpturefrom 1951–53, studying painting and sculpture under Professors Peppino Mangravite, Oronzio Maldarelli, and others. From 1951-53, while in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Downing (painter)
Thomas Downing (1928–1985) was an American painter, associated with the Washington Color School, which also featured Sam Gilliam, Kenneth Noland, Howard Mehring, Alma Thomas, and Paul Reed. Life and work Thomas Downing was born in Suffolk, Virginia. He studied at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1948. He then studied at the Pratt Institute, a well-known art school in Brooklyn, New York, until 1950. That year he received a grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, enabling him to travel to Europe, where he studied briefly at the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1951 he returned to the United States, and after serving in the U.S. Army, settled in Washington, D.C., where he began to teach, in 1953. The following summer, he enrolled in a summer institute at Catholic University, studying under Kenneth Noland. He became a friend of Noland, who became a significant influence on Downing's art and who was one of the founders of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willem De Looper
Willem Johan de Looper (October 30, 1932 – January 30, 2009) was an American abstract artist, and chief curator at The Phillips Collection. Life Willem de Looper, born October 30, 1932, was the third child of Wilhelmina Johanna and Henri Bastiaan de Looper. He grew up in The Hague and had a Montessori education. During the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, the family moved three times, once settling with a family friend who was a musician. This started a lifelong love of music that would later influence de Looper's visual art. As the war ended and American publications, like ''The New Yorker'', ''Saturday Evening Post'', and ''Life'' became available, de Looper immersed himself in their content and spent a great deal of time copying the illustrations. He also developed a fascination with and love of America and American culture. In 1950, at age 17, de Looper immigrated to Washington, D.C., joining his older brother Hans who worked at the Internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Davis (painter)
Gene Davis (August 22, 1920 - April 6, 1985) was an American Color Field painter known especially for his paintings of vertical stripes of color. Biography Davis was born in Washington, D.C., in 1920 and spent nearly all his life there. Before he began to paint in 1949, he worked as a sportswriter, covering the Washington Football Team and other local teams. Working as a journalist in the late 1940s, he covered the Roosevelt and Truman presidential administrations, and was often President Truman's partner for poker games. His first art studio was in his apartment on Scott Circle; later he worked out of a studio on Pennsylvania Avenue. In the 1950s, Gene Davis, with Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis was one of a small group of painters called the Washington Color School who made experimentation with colours. In Washington he closely studied works in the Phillips Collection including paintings by Pierre Bonnard and Paul Klee, to which he later attributed his heightened sense o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Hopps
Walter "Chico" Hopps (May 3, 1932 – March 20, 2005) was an American museum director, gallerist, and curator of contemporary art. Hopps helped bring Los Angeles post-war artists to prominence during the 1960s, and later went on to redefine practices of curatorial installation internationally. He is known for contributing decisively to “the emergence of the museum as a place to show new art.” (Roberta Smith, New York Times) Early life and education Hopps was born on May 3, 1932, into a family of surgeons and doctors in Los Angeles, California. 4] He experienced pneumonia without access to antibiotics and hallucinations during high fever, visualizing psychedelic colors in the curtains. Walter received tutoring from his grandmother and became fascinated with diverse subjects through extensive reading and exploring the family library. Home-tutored until junior high school, he then attended the Polytechnic School in Pasadena, followed by Eagle Rock High School. Assignment to Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Harithas
James Harithas (December 1, 1932 – March 23, 2023) was an American museum curator, director, and founder. Early life and education Menelaus James "Jim" Harithas was born in Lewiston, Maine, the eldest of three children. His father Nikolaus was a lawyer and county judge, who had immigrated from Greece to attend Yale University. His mother, Terpsichore Seferlis, was the grandniece of a Greek Prime Minister. She painted in oils and played piano and violin. Nikolaus served in the U.S. Army. The family moved frequently. After World War II, they were stationed in Occupied Germany, a chaotic and lawless environment. James returned to the U.S. in 1953. He enrolled at the University of Maine at Orono, but left after three semesters. On a trip to visit his parents in 1948, Harithas was astonished by a show of Abstract Expressionist painters in Frankfurt. A few years later, he saw works by Jackson Pollock to "overwhelming effect." The experiences changed his life. He quit school and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
