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1907 Waverly, Tennessee - 1970 Nashville, Tennessee. Known for: Abstraction-geometric, religious.
The following biography is provided by Dan Hardison. From a small town in west Tennessee, Philip Perkins became an abstract painter widely acknowledged for his work. He is best known for his... Read full biography
The following biography is provided by Dan Hardison. From a small town in west Tennessee, Philip Perkins became an abstract painter widely acknowledged for his work. He is best known for his geometric, cubist influenced work of the forties. While most abstract art used flat unshaded color areas,... Read full biography
The following biography is provided by Dan Hardison. From a small town in west Tennessee, Philip Perkins became an abstract painter widely acknowledged for his work. He is best known for his geometric, cubist influenced work of the forties. While most abstract art used flat unshaded color areas, Perkins shaded geometric forms through deepening colors to give the work more body and a sense of rhythm. During the fifties, his work became more abstract expressionist in style with more spontaneous... Read full biography
The following biography is provided by Dan Hardison. From a small town in west Tennessee, Philip Perkins became an abstract painter widely acknowledged for his work. He is best known for his geometric, cubist influenced work of the forties. While most abstract art used flat unshaded color areas, Perkins shaded geometric forms through deepening colors to give the work more body and a sense of rhythm. During the fifties, his work became more abstract expressionist in style with more spontaneous brush strokes and less distinct forms. It was during the fifties that he began a series of religious work in a semi-abstract style. By the late sixties, his paintings had become more hard edge abstract through the use of bold shapes and the heavy... Read full biography
The following biography is provided by Dan Hardison. From a small town in west Tennessee, Philip Perkins became an abstract painter widely acknowledged for his work. He is best known for his geometric, cubist influenced work of the forties. While most abstract art used flat unshaded color areas, Perkins shaded geometric forms through deepening colors to give the work more body and a sense of rhythm. During the fifties, his work became more abstract expressionist in style with more spontaneous brush strokes and less distinct forms. It was during the fifties that he began a series of religious work in a semi-abstract style. By the late sixties, his paintings had become more hard edge abstract through the use of bold shapes and the heavy application of paint with the pallet knife. Philip Perkins was born in 1907 in Waverly, Tennessee. He studied at Vanderbilt Univers... Read full biography
Philip Perkins - Artist Info
About Philip Perkins: Keywords
Keywords (13)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Geometric Abstraction, Linear, Grids, Hard Edge
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
Art School
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Salon d'Automne