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Obituary
David Anfam (1955–2024)
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 75-6
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Author:
James, Merlin (James, Merlin; James, Merlin Ingli; Ingli James, Merlin; J., M.)
Subjects
artists:
Still, Clyfford / Rothko, Mark / Pollock, Jackson
subjects:
Anfam, David, London, Great Britain / Art historians / scholars / Abstract Expressionism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Still from Of First and Last, by Ron and Merial Kenley. 2020. Video, duration 1 hour 32 minutes. (Courtesy Ron Kenley).
Exhibition Review
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 87–91
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Reviewer:
Pergam, Elizabeth (Pergam, Elizabeth)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, United States / Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, United States
subjects:
Art museums / Architecture / Collections / Collections, Public / Modernism / Modern Art / Contemporary art / French art / American art / Abstract Expressionism / Pop art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Buffalo AKG Art Museum From June 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
29. Buffalo AKG Art Museum: from left to right, the Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building, the Albright Bridge and the Robert and Elizabeth Wilmers Building. (Photograph Marco Cappelletti).
Attributed works:
30. The Ralph Wilson Town Square at Buffalo AKG Art Museum, showing Common Sky, by Studio Other Spaces (Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann). 2022. (Photograph Marco Cappelletti).
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31. A gallery in the Robert and Elizabeth Wilmers Building at Buffalo AKG Art Museum with, in the foreground, two sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Eve (After the Fall) (1881), and The Age of Bronze (1875–76, cast 1911). (Photograph Marco Cappelletti).
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32. Installation view of Clyfford Still: A Legacy for Buffalo in the Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building, Buffalo AKG Museum of Art, 2023. (Photograph Marco Cappelletti).
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33. A gallery in the Robert and Elizabeth Wilmers Building at the Buffalo AKG Museum of Art, showing, from left to right, Lovers, by Rosalyn Drexler (1963); Tom Thumb, by Marisol (1997); 100 cans, by Andy Warhol (1962); and Head – Red and Yellow, by Roy Lichtenstein (1962). (Photograph Marco Cappelletti).
Book Review
Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1372–1373
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Reviewer:
Rhodes, Colin (Rhodes, Colin)
Subjects
artists:
Hayter, Stanley William / Pollock, Jackson / Motherwell, Robert / Baziotes, William / Bourgeois, Louise
places:
New York / Paris
styles:
Avant-garde / Surrealism / Abstract Expressionism
subjects:
Atelier 17, Paris, France
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism By Charles Darwent. 264 pp. incl. 93 b. & w. ills. (Thames and Hudson, London and New York, 2023), £25. ISBN 978–0–500–09426–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Centauresse, by Stanley William Hayter. 1944. Colour engraving and soft-ground etching, 28.6 by 23.2 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Book Review
Abstract Expressionists: The Women
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1164
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Reviewer:
Chalaby, Cora (Chalaby, Cora)
Subjects
subjects:
Women artists / Feminism / Abstract Expressionism / American art
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subjects:
Abstract Expressionists: The Women By Ellen G. Landau and Joan M. Marter. 256 pp. incl. 170 col. ills. (Merrell, London and New York, 2023), £45. ISBN 978–1–85894–703–7. | :
Book Review
Dusti Bongé, Art and Life: Biloxi, New Orleans, New York
06/2021 | 1419 | 163
Pages: 559-561
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Reviewer:
Marter, Joan (Marter, Joan)
Subjects
artists:
Bongé, Dusti
subjects:
American art / Abstract Expressionism / Women artists
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Dusti Bongé, Art and Life: Biloxi, New Orleans, New York By J. Richard Gruber. 352 pp. incl. over 500 col. + b. & w. ills (University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2019), $75. ISBN 978–0–578–47691–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Sails, by Dusti Bongé. 1957. Acrylic on canvas, 177.8 by 111.8 cm. (Courtesy Ogden Museum of Southern Art).
Exhibition Review
Lee Krasner: Living Colour. Barbican Art Gallery, London
08/2019 | 1397 | 161
Pages: 678-681
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artists:
Krasner, Lee / Eames, Ray
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain
styles:
Abstract Expressionism
subjects:
American art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
17. Self-Portrait, by Lee Krasner. c.1929. Oil on canvas, 76.2 by 81.6 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
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18. Polar stampede, by Lee Krasner. 1960. Oil on canvas, 243.8 by 412.4 cm. (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
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19. Untitled, by Lee Krasner. 1946. Oil on linen, 70.5 by 76.8 cm. (Private collection; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
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20. Palingenesis, by Lee Krasner. 1971. Oil on canvas, 208.3 by 340.4 cm. (Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London).
Book Review
Pollock’s Modernism. By Michael Schreyach
04/2018 | 1381 | 160
Pages: 354-355
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Reviewer:
Costello, Eileen (Costello, Eileen)
Subjects
art literature:
Greenberg, Clement / Fried, Michael / Clark, T. J. / Ehrenzweig, Anton, 1908-1966 / Palermo, Charles
artists:
Pollock, Jackson / Krasner, Lee / Siqueiros, David Alfaro
dates:
1930-1939 / 1940-1949 / 1950-1959
media:
Paintings
places:
United States
subjects:
American painting (United States of America) / Abstract Expressionism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
8. Number 1, 1950 (Lavender mist), by Jackson Pollock. 1950. Oil, enamel and aluminum on canvas, 221 by 299.7 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Article
The paintings and sculptures of Jasper Johns: the catalogue raisonné
12/2017 | 1377 | 159
Pages: 989-992
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Author:
Craft, Catherine (Craft, Catherine)
Subjects
art literature:
Catalogues raisonnés
art literature:
Biographies
artists:
Johns, Jasper
dates:
1950-1999 / 2000-2009
media:
Encaustic painting / Collages / Oil painting (technique)
styles:
Abstract Expressionism / American art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
46. Shade, by Jasper Johns. 1959 (The Ludwig Museum at the Russian Museum, St Petersburg; image courtesy the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, New York, 2017; © Jasper Johns, VAGA/DACS London, 2017).
Attributed works:
47. Target with plaster casts, by Jasper Johns. 1955 (David Geffen Collection, Los Angeles; image courtesy the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, New York, 2017; © Jasper Johns, VAGA/DACS London, 2017).
Attributed works:
48. Flag, by Jasper Johns. 1954–55. (Museum of Modern Art, New York; image courtesy the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, New York, 2017; © Jasper Johns, VAGA/DACS London, 2017).
Attributed works:
49. Perilous night, by Jasper Johns. 1982 (National Gallery of Art, Washington; image courtesy the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, New York, 2017; © Jasper Johns, VAGA/DACS London, 2017).
Exhibition Review
Mark Tobey. Venice and Andover
11/2017 | 1376 | 159
Pages: 942-943
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Reviewer:
Anfam, David (Anfam, David)
Subjects
artists:
Tobey, Mark
dates:
1900-1949 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1979
museums and institutions:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy / Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, United States
styles:
Abstract Expressionism / American art
Reviewed Items
styles:
Mark Tobey: Threading Light at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover and Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
78. World, by Mark Tobey, 1959 (Private collection, New York; exh. Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover).
Attributed works:
79. Middle West (American landscape), by Mark Tobey. 1929 (Seattle Art Museum; exh. Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover).
Attributed works:
80. Threading light, by Mark Tobey. 1942 (Museum of Modern Art, New York; exh. Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover).
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