New York, Ohio. 1926 - 2009
Female symbolism, modernist caligraphy, collage
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1922 Chicago, Illinois - 2004 New York City. Known for: Modernist morose figure-genre and portrait painting, collage.
The following is from The New York Times, July 26, 2001. Leon Golub, Brawler in a Cosmic Melee. By AMEI WALLACH. I'm sort of political, sort of metaphysical, sort of wiseacre," Leon Golub is saying... Read full biography
The following is from The New York Times, July 26, 2001. Leon Golub, Brawler in a Cosmic Melee. By AMEI WALLACH. I'm sort of political, sort of metaphysical, sort of wiseacre," Leon Golub is saying in his street-smart Chicago cadence. "When I paint a skull, I don't do it with eyebrows furrowed.".... Read full biography
The following is from The New York Times, July 26, 2001. Leon Golub, Brawler in a Cosmic Melee. By AMEI WALLACH. I'm sort of political, sort of metaphysical, sort of wiseacre," Leon Golub is saying in his street-smart Chicago cadence. "When I paint a skull, I don't do it with eyebrows furrowed.". He has taken the more uncomfortable of the two chairs in his Greenwich Village studio, a battered metal affair, although his 79-year-old bones don't give him much relief. There's no more getting down... Read full biography
The following is from The New York Times, July 26, 2001. Leon Golub, Brawler in a Cosmic Melee. By AMEI WALLACH. I'm sort of political, sort of metaphysical, sort of wiseacre," Leon Golub is saying in his street-smart Chicago cadence. "When I paint a skull, I don't do it with eyebrows furrowed.". He has taken the more uncomfortable of the two chairs in his Greenwich Village studio, a battered metal affair, although his 79-year-old bones don't give him much relief. There's no more getting down on the floor to scrape a canvas, as in the old days in the 1980's, when he flayed the blood-red backgrounds behind his graphic, nearly 10- foot-high paintings of torturers, mercenaries and thugs with a meat cleaver. Those paintings are the centerpiece... Read full biography
The following is from The New York Times, July 26, 2001. Leon Golub, Brawler in a Cosmic Melee. By AMEI WALLACH. I'm sort of political, sort of metaphysical, sort of wiseacre," Leon Golub is saying in his street-smart Chicago cadence. "When I paint a skull, I don't do it with eyebrows furrowed.". He has taken the more uncomfortable of the two chairs in his Greenwich Village studio, a battered metal affair, although his 79-year-old bones don't give him much relief. There's no more getting down on the floor to scrape a canvas, as in the old days in the 1980's, when he flayed the blood-red backgrounds behind his graphic, nearly 10- foot-high paintings of torturers, mercenaries and thugs with a meat cleaver. Those paintings are the centerpiece of a retrospective, "Leon Golub: Paintings, 1950-2000," organized by the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and on... Read full biography
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Illinois, California. 1939 - 2021
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New York. 1936 - 2024
Multi-media, modernist figure, collage-assemblage, happenings
Connecticut, California. 1922 - 1981
Wooden sculpture-mod droll imagery and found object
Arizona, California. 1925 - 2009
Mod satire-genre, crowds-objects
New York. Born 1933
Minimalism, conceptualism, installation sculpture
New York, California. 1934 - 2011
Minimalist sculpture-dark lacquered, shining forms, painting
New York, New Mexico / Greece, India. Born 1941
Sculpture-knot shaped 'environments', fountains, graphics
New York / Italy. 1909 - 2008
Abstract expressionist and surreal painting
New York, New Mexico. Born 1941
Minimal non ob, installation
New York, California / Canada. 1945 - 2003
Performance art-light explosions, video art
California. Born 1958
Mod-pop whimsy, non ob, sculptor
California. 1926 - 1976
Collage-surreal-pop images
New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Indiana. 1907 - 2002
Stainless steel kinetic sculpture, some drawing
Illinois. 1941 - 1997
Abstract landscape painting, ceramics, imagist artist
New York, Illinois. 1940 - 2007
Biomorphic imagery, abstract humor, collage, graphics
New York, California. Born 1943
Conceptual installations, assemblage, African-American genre
Illinois. 1939 - 2004
Modernist portrait and figure, illustrator
New York. Born 1949
Non objective, op imagery-stripe painting
New York, Ohio. 1901 - 1994
Abstract sculpture, naive style painting, printmaking, drawing, collage
New York, Oklahoma. Born 1952
Abstract figure, collage
New Mexico, California. 1935 - 2012
Colorful ceramic objects-eggs, teacups, surreal forms
New York, Pennsylvania / Spain. 1903 - 2001
Abstract expressionist painting, assemblage
New York, Massachusetts. 1935 - 2024
Geometric sculpture, drawing
California, Colorado. 1936 - 2022
Minimalist industrial material sculpture, resin, plastic and glass
New York. Born 1969
Rorschach sculpture, social commentary
New York, California / Japan. 1904 - 1988
Abstract sculpture, mod mediums
Illinois. 1935 - 2023
Biomorphic, nature themed sculpture, found objects, graphics
California, Massachusetts / Japan. 1898 - 1976
Geometric abstract painting, op-stripes
New York, California / Holland, Ireland. 1929 - 2025
Minimalist, non-objective painting, drawing
California, New York / China. Born 1933
Large scale geometric sculpture, drawings