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Frederick Hammersley : to paint without thinking / edited by James Glisson ; with contributions by Alan Phenix, Kathleen Shields, and Nancy Zastudil.
Fine Arts Library ND237.H282 A4 2017
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hammersley, Frederick, 1919-2009--Exhibitions.
- Hammersley, Frederick.
- Hammersley, Frederick, 1919-2009--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc--Exhibitions.
- Hammersley, Frederick, 1919-2009.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
- Notebooks.
- Physical Description:
- 109 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Production:
- Seattle : Lucia/Marquand.
- Distribution:
- New York, NY : Distributed by Artbook/D.A.P.
- Place of Publication:
- San Marino, CA : The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2017.
- Summary:
- American painter Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009) is best known for his hard-edged geometric abstractions. However, their elegant simplicity belies the complex system behind their creation. Thanks to sketchbooks, notebooks and color swatches reproduced in this catalog, the artist's beautiful documentation of his multistep way of working out compositions is on full view. These artworks and archival materials show that rather than an all-at-once creative act, Hammersley's method was step-by-step and structured by rules. Essays by Alan Phenix, a conservation scientist, as well as by Kathleen Shields and Nancy Zastudil, who manage the artist's foundation, bring to light new scientific findings about his paintings.
- Contents:
- Director's foreword / Kevin Salatino
- Curators' acknowledgments / James Glisson and Alan Phenix
- Introduction / James Glisson
- Frederick Hammersley / Kathleen Shields
- For the record and straight from the horse's mouth / Alan Phenix
- Working area / Nancy Zastudil
- Not untitled / James Glisson
- Lithography and experimentation / James Glisson.
- Notes:
- "This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking, at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens from October 21, 2017-January 22, 2018; and the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe from May 26, 2018-September 9, 2018."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780998681719
- 0998681717
- OCLC:
- 975487758
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