Stanley Boxer (1926-May 8, 2000) was an American artist best known for thickly painted
abstract
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works of art. He was also an accomplished sculptor and printmaker. He received awards from the
Guggenheim Fellowship
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and the
National Endowment for the Arts.
Career
Boxer was born in
New York City, and began his formal education after
World War II, when he left the
Navy and studied at the
Art Students League of New York
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Although artists may stu ...
. He drew, painted, made prints, and sculpted. His work was recognized by
art critic
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Clement Greenberg, who categorized him as a
color field painter, a designation which Boxer rejected. Art critic
Grace Glueck wrote "Never part of a movement or trend, though obviously steeped in the language of Modernism, the abstract painter Stanley Boxer was a superb manipulator of surfaces, intensely bonding texture and color."
[Glueck (2004)]
Boxer offered an explanation of his philosophy and working process:
In 1953 Boxer had his first solo exhibition of paintings in New York City, and showed regularly thereafter until his death. His paintings and sculpture were represented in New York City during the late 1960s through 1974 by the
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, then by the
André Emmerich Gallery
from 1975 until 1993, and finally by
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until its demise in 2007 .
Richard Waller, director of the
University of Richmond's Harnett Museum of Art, describes his evolution as an artist:
Museums
One-man museum exhibitions were held at the
Rose Art Museum and the
Butler Institute of American Art
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. His work is included in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Tate Gallery, the
Museum of Modern Art and the
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the
Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, and the
Boston Museum of Fine Art.
Honors
Boxer received a
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
in 1975 and a
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grant in 1989. In 1993 he was elected as a full member to the
National Academy of Design.
Death
Boxer died May 8, 2000 in
Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He was 73 years old. According to Boxer's wife of 49 years, the artist Joyce Weinstein, Boxer created more than 7,000 drawings, paintings, and sculptures, about 700 of which were part of his estate at the time of his death.
Notes
References
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* Quoted from ''
The New York Times'', April 23, 2004.
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External links
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Stanley Boxer timeline
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1926 births
2000 deaths
20th-century American painters
American male painters
Art Students League of New York alumni
Painters from New York City
National Academy of Design members
People from New York City
20th-century American sculptors
American male sculptors
20th-century American printmakers
Sculptors from New York (state)
20th-century American male artists