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The Art of Yellow and Blue
Playing Together
First Snow
Timkov Nikolai
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"The penetrating love of nature, its poetic perception, the ability to find the beautiful in any seemingly most inconspicuous corner, that's what is most characteristic of this master," wrote one of the Leningrad newspapers about Timkov's landscapes, among them... First Snow (both 1960) and First Snow (1961).
Nikolai Efimovich Timkov (1912-1993) was a Soviet Russian painter, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, and a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (which before 1992 was the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation). He lived and worked in Leningrad and is regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting, and known worldwide for his landscape paintings.
His paintings reside in State Russian Museum, in Art museums and private collections in Russia, France, England, Japan, in the U.S., and throughout the world. In 1990s, after the death of the artist, his work has received recognition and aroused great interest abroad. Exhibitions of his works were held in San Francisco (1998, 2000, 2001), Aspen (1999), New York (1999, 2001), Scottsdale (2000), Palm Beach (2000), Vail (2001), Washington (2001) and other cities. This brought the artist fame and glory of the Russian Impressionist. One of the first Soviet artists, and perhaps the first landscape painter, he was listed in the West as one of the important painters of the 20th century.
Moon Radiance
Oscar Florianus Bluemner (1867-1938), American
Watercolor with gum coating on hot pressed
off-white wove paper laid down onto thick wood panel,
13" x 10" (w x h), 1927
Karen & Kevin Kennedy Collection, New York, New York
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Oscar Florianus Bluemner (1867-1938) born Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner in Germany and after 1933 known as Oscar Florianus Bluemner, was a German-born American Modernist painter. He studied painting and architecture at the Royal Academy of Design in Berlin. At 26-years-old He moved to Chicago in 1893 where he freelanced as a architectural draftsman at the World's Columbian Exposition.
In 1901, he relocated to New York City where he also was unable to find steady employment. In 1903, he created the winning design for the Bronx Borough Courthouse in New York, although it is credited to Michael J. Garvin. The scandal that arose around this Garvin credit took down borough president Louis Haffen for corruption and fraud.
In 1908 Bluemner met Alfred Stieglitz, who introduced him to the artistic innovations of the European and American avant-garde. By 1910, Bluemner had decided to pursue painting full-time rather than architecture. He exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show. Then in 1915 Stieglitz gave him a solo exhibition at his gallery, 291. Despite participating in several exhibitions, including solo shows, for the next ten years Bluemner failed to sell many paintings and lived with his family in near poverty. In the 1930s he created paintings for the Federal Arts Project. In 1935 he had a successful one-man show at the Marie Harriman Gallery in New York City. On January 12, 1938 Bluemner committed suicide.
Often overlooked in his lifetime, today Bluemner is widely acknowledged as a key player in the creation of American artistic Modernism, with better-known colleagues such as Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin. An oil painting by Bluemner, Illusion of a Prairie, New Jersey (Red Farm at Pochuck) (1915) sold at Christie's, New York, for $5,346,500 on November 30, 2011, see HERE. Stetson University holds more than 1,000 pieces of Oscar Bluemner's work bequeathed in 1997 by his daughter, Vera Bluemner Kouba.
Blue and Yellow, Newyln (Cornwall)
Sir Terry Frost, R.A. (1915-2003)
Acrylic and collage, 17" x 23" (w x h)
Christies London 2005 Auction
Sold GBP 3,840 ($5,240 USD)
Sir Terry Frost (1915-2003), British
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Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost RA (The Royal Academy of Arts) (1915-2003) was a British abstract artist, who worked in Newlyn, Cornwall. He didn't become an artist until he was in his 30s. During World War II, he served in France, the Middle East and Greece, before joining the commandos. In June 1941 while serving with the commandos in Crete, he was captured and sent to various prisoner of war camps. At Stalag 383 in Bavaria, he met Adrian Heath who encouraged him to paint. Commenting later he described these years as a "tremendous spiritual experience, a more aware or heightened perception during starvation."
In 1992 he was elected a Royal Academician and he was knighted in 1998. Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, color and shape to start a new art movement in England. He became a leading exponent of abstract art and a recognized figure of the British art establishment.
Sea Gate and Goldenrod (Maine)
William Kienbusch (1914-1980), American
Casein on paper, 45" x 32" (w x h), 1963
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
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William Kienbusch (1914-1980) first painted in Maine in 1934, many time on Monhegan Island, eventually taking up residence on Great Cranberry Isle in 1962. Born in New York City, and a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Princeton University, he studied at the Art Students League in New York with Raphael Soyer and John Sloan. He lived in Paris in 1937 and 1938, and traveled throughout Europe before the outbreak of war. He taught at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Brooklyn Museum school. His work is included in the collections of many outstanding museums, including that of New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kienbusch worked extensively in casein, turning to Craypas as his primary medium during the last five years of his life when failing health limited his ability to work on larger pieces.
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A New Yorker, in the 1930s Kienbusch attended Eliot O'Hara's watercolor class at Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport, Maine. After serving in the Army during World War II, he returned to Maine, staying in Stonington where his hero John Marin had spent time in the 1920s. He knew and mixed with many Maine artist's including Vincent Hartgen of the University of Maine (Bruce McMillan: He was the Art Dept head, an accomplished watercolorist, when I was a student taking art classes at UMO), Frank Hamabe, (Bruce McMillan: As an elementary school age child, I rode my bicycle to the Bangor Daily News for art class on Saturday mornings with Frank Hamabe, memorable), and the children's book author Robert McCloskey, who once referred to Bill as "the rowingest man in Maine." (Bruce McMillan: I was honored to be one of two speakers at a Library Association Luncheon in Los Angeles with Robert McCloskey, author of my favorite children's book, as a child, Make Way for Ducklings).
Best known for semi-abstract landscapes, Kienbusch spent summers photographing and sketching the pine trees, buoys, and shacks of the Maine coast. During the winter months, while teaching at the Brooklyn Museum School, translated his summer's work into geometrically formulated landscapes. During the 1960s Kienbusch adopted a looser technique.
Among Bill's last great subjects was goldenrod, a fitting image for the final years of his life. In an elegy inspired by the painting Sea Gate and Goldenrod, poet Rosanna Warren, who visited Bill on Great Cranberry Island on several occasions, describes the painter lying in his bed with "a patchwork map spread out" over his "failed legs." She wrote:
"…there are
other islands, and already, while we sat
here with you chatting of ours with its goldenrod
what you heard
was the other islands."
Maine Waters
Wolf Kahn (1927-2020), German-born American
Pastel on paper, 30" x 22" (w x h), 1999-2000
Lempertz Auction house, Cologne, Germany
Auction in 2017 sold for 4.216 € ($4,800 USD)
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Kahn loved the visual effects of Maine's coastline. In the late 1960s after a number of vacations on Deer Isle, Maine, the foggy conditions ultimately led to a significant shift in Kahn's painting. Years of monochromatic work concentrated on varying tonalities finally gave way to intense color. Kahn recalled later, "I began to let the color come through on my canvases...my pastels were always intense, and finally my painting caught up with them."
Yellow on Blue
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), American
Oil on canvas, 80" x77" (w x h), 2001
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
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Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form. Kelly often employed bright colors. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York. On the occasion of the artist's 90th birthday in 2013, the National Gallery of Art in Washington mounted an exhibition of his prints; the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia put together five sculptures in a show; the Phillips Collection in Washington exhibited his panel paintings; and the Museum of Modern Art opened a show of the Chatham Series.
Articulated Wall
Herbert Bayer
32 prefabricated concrete slabs,
all slightly askew of each other,
held together by an aircraft carrier
refueling mast that runs down the center,
85' tall, near I-25, Denver, Colorado
Denver Art Museum, Denver Colorado
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The sculpture is on private property but it's owned by the Denver Art Museum. The 85-foot-tall artwork was Herbert Bayer's final completed commission before his death in 1985. He "understood that people would see this sculpture from a very busy highway, so he realized that as you went by in a speeding vehicle, the sculpture would change shape," says Gwen Chanzit, curator emerita of modern art at the Denver Art Museum and director of museum studies at the University of Denver.
Beyond French fry and noodle analogies, people have compared the twisting yellow step sculpture to a stack of cheese sticks and Juicy Fruit gum packs piled on top of each other. One's interpretation will likely depend on the angle viewed from and how hungry the viewer is.
The original, or rather the first one, is in Mexico City. Bayer designed it for the 1968 Olympics. It looks like Denver's, except it's more than 20 feet shorter.
Bayer was born in Austria in 1900. At 21-years-old, he enrolled in the Bauhaus art school in Germany. He indeed did many things: graphic design, architecture, painting, sculpting, typography, photography, art direction and more. It was his exhibition design skills that first brought Bayer to New York in the late 1930s, to design several major shows for the Museum of Modern Art. Bayer then emigrated to the U.S., but he was unhappy in Manhattan. He was commissioned to transform Aspen, Colorado, from a relatively unknown mountain town into a cultural and intellectual destination and in 1946 he moved there.
Blue Shoes, Yellow Bows
Henriette Simon Picker
Oil on canvas, 2012
Henriette Simon Picker Museum of Art, Poughkeepsie, New York
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Born Henriette May Simon in 1917 in Jersey City, New Jersey, she died in Poughkeepsie, New York in 2016. In her nineties, during the last six years of her 99-years life, she painted about 200 paintings, almost as many as her prior 75 years. She studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan from 1939-41. Influenced by the Ashcan School and American Realism, she initially focused on everyday scenes of New York City.
In 1929, her father Wilhelm, a German Jewish immigrant and dentist, moved the Simon family back to Germany so his children could have a European education and he could work in his sister's dental practice. From 1929-1933, the family lived in Berlin she studied fine arts and design. In 1933, using ingenuity and persistence, her mother, Eleanor Simon, got the family out of Germany and they returned to the U.S.
In New York she began her career as a shoe designer under the name, Henriette Simon. In 1935, she became the first woman designer hired by the shoe company, I. Miller. She was only 16-year-old. For the next 45 years she designed women's high fashion shoes full time. She went on to design for Mademoiselle, Palizio, D'Antonio, Fox, Selby, Gran Sol and Enna Jetticks. During the 1950s and 1960s, she founded her own design and manufacturing businesses (Simone Fine Shoes to Match and Simone Fine Shoes) in New York and Italy. During the 1950s, 24-year-old Andy Warhol illustrated her shoes for fashion magazines.
In 1940, she married Julian Picker, a news writer for CBS Television, and they had three children.
The Henriette Simon Picker Museum of Art is open to the public by appointment. The museum shares its space with the orthopedic offices of Dr. William Thompson, who has turned all of his public spaces into a museum with white walls and gallery-style lighting. A rotating exhibit of Picker's paintings from different periods is featured. The website is HERE, where you'll see Henriette sitting with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is holding the portrait that Henriette painted of Ruth.
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