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1928 Suffolk, Virginia - 1985. Known for: Modernist-optical, geometric painting, teaching.
Thomas Victor Downing (1928-1985). An abstract painter whose specialty was manipulating saturated acrylic paint to experiment with various shapes and optical color contrasts, Thomas Victor Downing... Read full biography
Thomas Victor Downing (1928-1985). An abstract painter whose specialty was manipulating saturated acrylic paint to experiment with various shapes and optical color contrasts, Thomas Victor Downing was part of the Washington Color Painters who exhibited together in 1965 at the Washington DC Gallery... Read full biography
Thomas Victor Downing (1928-1985). An abstract painter whose specialty was manipulating saturated acrylic paint to experiment with various shapes and optical color contrasts, Thomas Victor Downing was part of the Washington Color Painters who exhibited together in 1965 at the Washington DC Gallery of Modern Art. Downing believed that color was the most important focus of a painting and that geometric forms, especially circles, were the most effective shapes to hold color onto a canvas. Many of... Read full biography
Thomas Victor Downing (1928-1985). An abstract painter whose specialty was manipulating saturated acrylic paint to experiment with various shapes and optical color contrasts, Thomas Victor Downing was part of the Washington Color Painters who exhibited together in 1965 at the Washington DC Gallery of Modern Art. Downing believed that color was the most important focus of a painting and that geometric forms, especially circles, were the most effective shapes to hold color onto a canvas. Many of his compositions were arranged small dots of pure color on unprimed canvas, and other works were monochromatic geometric shapes linked to letters of the alphabet. Thomas Downing studied at Catholic University in the 1950s, worked primarily in... Read full biography
Thomas Victor Downing (1928-1985). An abstract painter whose specialty was manipulating saturated acrylic paint to experiment with various shapes and optical color contrasts, Thomas Victor Downing was part of the Washington Color Painters who exhibited together in 1965 at the Washington DC Gallery of Modern Art. Downing believed that color was the most important focus of a painting and that geometric forms, especially circles, were the most effective shapes to hold color onto a canvas. Many of his compositions were arranged small dots of pure color on unprimed canvas, and other works were monochromatic geometric shapes linked to letters of the alphabet. Thomas Downing studied at Catholic University in the 1950s, worked primarily in Washington DC and exhibited there at the Corcoran Gallery. Other exhibition venues were the Whitney Museum of Modern Art and t... Read full biography
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Keywords (20)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Oil Paint
- •Shaped Canvas, Three Dimensional
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Geometric Abstraction, Linear, Grids, Hard Edge
- •Op Art, Optical
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
- •Washington Color School
Art Association
- •Washington Color School, District of Columbia
Art School
- •Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris, Student
- •Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Johnson Collection Directory Listed
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Washington Color Painters, Districk of Columbia
Exhibition of Museum
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Special Group
- •Post Painterly Abstraction, 1964, Clement Greenberg
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts