Description: Using the logic and feel of nature as his muse, Irving Kaufman (1920-2016) creates an abstracted and geometric world that locks in place what he sees around him. This large piece demands to be seen and holds on to the viewer's gaze. My father did much of his painting on Cape Cod or the Hamptons and the canvas features the bright colors of those locales. It is the confident work of an artist who was exploring and then re-interpreting the basic, underlying the colors, shapes and lines that he saw. Kaufman began his work in New York in the early 1950s with vibrant canvases filled with endless brushstrokes. He evolved into a more subtle, almost color field style. He was a professor of art and aesthetics at the University of Michigan, City College of New York and Columbia University. Among other venues, he showed at the Rehn Gallery in midtown Manhattan until it closed in 1981. Describing the Rehn Gallery, The Smithsonian reports: The Rehn Galleries soon enjoyed a regular following among museum curators and collectors visiting from out of town. The gallery's roster of artists grew along with its reputation. Rehn focused almost exclusively on American painters, occasionally showing drawings and prints by artists who were primarily painters; notable exceptions were sculptor Mahonri Young and Henry Varnum Poor who, in addition to being a painter, was known for his work in ceramics. Among the painters eventually represented were: Peggy Bacon, George Bellows, Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, John F. Carlson, John Carroll, Howard Cook, Jon Corbino, Virginia Cuthbert, Andrew Dasberg, Sidney Gross, Edward Hopper, Alexander James, Irving Kaufman, Yeffe Kimball, Leon Kroll, Peppino Mangravite, Reginald and Felicia Meyer Marsh, Henry Mattson, Henry Lee McFee, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Charles Rosen, Robert Riggs, Alexander Russo, Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones, Eugene Speicher, Henry Strater, Richard Derby Tucker, Franklin C. Watkins, and Denny Winters.
Price: 1600 USD
Location: Silver Spring, Maryland
End Time: 2024-11-06T17:20:54.000Z
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Artist: Irving Kaufman
Signed By: Irving Kaufman
Size: Large
Signed: Yes
Material: Canvas
Framing: Framed
Subject: abstracted landscape
Type: Painting
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 40 in
Style: Abstract
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Item Width: 50
Time Period Produced: 1980-1989
