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1887 Blickwell, Indiana - 1918 New York City. Known for: Modernist figure painting, drawing.
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Born in Blickwell, Indiana, Rex Slinkard became a noted figure painter whose work ranged from the styles of social realism to symbolism. He studied at the Art Students League in New York with Robert... Read full biography
Born in Blickwell, Indiana, Rex Slinkard became a noted figure painter whose work ranged from the styles of social realism to symbolism. He studied at the Art Students League in New York with Robert Henri, and from 1910 to 1913 taught at the Art Students League in Los Angeles. There he was the most... Read full biography
Born in Blickwell, Indiana, Rex Slinkard became a noted figure painter whose work ranged from the styles of social realism to symbolism. He studied at the Art Students League in New York with Robert Henri, and from 1910 to 1913 taught at the Art Students League in Los Angeles. There he was the most progressive force in Los Angeles as a painter and teacher, and his life drawing classes were innovative in that they were the first on the West Coast to incorporate the methods of Henri. Later with... Read full biography
Born in Blickwell, Indiana, Rex Slinkard became a noted figure painter whose work ranged from the styles of social realism to symbolism. He studied at the Art Students League in New York with Robert Henri, and from 1910 to 1913 taught at the Art Students League in Los Angeles. There he was the most progressive force in Los Angeles as a painter and teacher, and his life drawing classes were innovative in that they were the first on the West Coast to incorporate the methods of Henri. Later with softly colored, brushed-looking figures, Slinkard developed his own personal form of symbolic modernism, intended to create mood rather than suggest any specific action. He revered the Italian Renaissance artists Botticelli and Giotto for the way they... Read full biography
Born in Blickwell, Indiana, Rex Slinkard became a noted figure painter whose work ranged from the styles of social realism to symbolism. He studied at the Art Students League in New York with Robert Henri, and from 1910 to 1913 taught at the Art Students League in Los Angeles. There he was the most progressive force in Los Angeles as a painter and teacher, and his life drawing classes were innovative in that they were the first on the West Coast to incorporate the methods of Henri. Later with softly colored, brushed-looking figures, Slinkard developed his own personal form of symbolic modernism, intended to create mood rather than suggest any specific action. He revered the Italian Renaissance artists Botticelli and Giotto for the way they treated figures. In his letters, which are now in the Stanford Museum, he recorded his feelings: "It's wonderful to work.&nb... Read full biography
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Keywords (12)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
Art Teacher
- •Robert Henri
Art School
- •Art Students League of Los Angeles, Teacher
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Knoedler Gallery, New York City