Joseph Zenk's artistic career spanned more than forty years of experimentation and development. Encompassing the progressive currents of early 20th-century modernism, his work evolved from a style of... Read full biography
Joseph Zenk's artistic career spanned more than forty years of experimentation and development. Encompassing the progressive currents of early 20th-century modernism, his work evolved from a style of expressive representation to one of dramatic abstraction. Joseph Zenk was born in New York City in... Read full biography
Joseph Zenk's artistic career spanned more than forty years of experimentation and development. Encompassing the progressive currents of early 20th-century modernism, his work evolved from a style of expressive representation to one of dramatic abstraction. Joseph Zenk was born in New York City in 1904. After graduating from high school, he attended the National Academy of Design for three years, and then continued his studies at the Art Students League of New York. In 1926, while on a... Read full biography
Joseph Zenk's artistic career spanned more than forty years of experimentation and development. Encompassing the progressive currents of early 20th-century modernism, his work evolved from a style of expressive representation to one of dramatic abstraction. Joseph Zenk was born in New York City in 1904. After graduating from high school, he attended the National Academy of Design for three years, and then continued his studies at the Art Students League of New York. In 1926, while on a sketching trip through New England and the Mohawk Valley, Zenk decided to settle in Utica, New York. A productive period followed, yielding numerous landscapes, figurative works, and still-lifes. Zenk was active in a small community of Utica artists who... Read full biography
Joseph Zenk's artistic career spanned more than forty years of experimentation and development. Encompassing the progressive currents of early 20th-century modernism, his work evolved from a style of expressive representation to one of dramatic abstraction. Joseph Zenk was born in New York City in 1904. After graduating from high school, he attended the National Academy of Design for three years, and then continued his studies at the Art Students League of New York. In 1926, while on a sketching trip through New England and the Mohawk Valley, Zenk decided to settle in Utica, New York. A productive period followed, yielding numerous landscapes, figurative works, and still-lifes. Zenk was active in a small community of Utica artists who organized exhibitions in 1927-28 of some of the leading American painters of the period, including Hopper, Sheeler and Fiene. In 1930 he was given... Read full biography
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New Hope for American Art A Comprehensive Showing of Important 20th Century Paintings from and Surrounding the New Hope Art Colony
2005
Alterman, James M.
612 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Blue Chips
2004
Alterman, Jim
128 pages (color)
Up the River: Pennsylvania Impressionists and Modernists Impressionists and Modernists (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Peterson, Brian H.
44 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes