Ray Parker (painter)
Ray Parker | |
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| Born | 22 August 1922 |
| Died | 14 April 1990 (aged 67) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Iowa |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Abstract expressionism |
Raymond Parker (1922-1990)Post-Painterly Abstraction.[3]
Biography
Originally from
Iowa City in 1940; he earned his MFA in 1948. From 1948 to 1951 he taught painting at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. During the 1940s his paintings were heavily influenced by cubism. In the early 1950s, however, Parker became associated with the leading abstract expressionists of the day, including Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning
. Parker soon began to simplify and refine his works realizing that through abstraction, and color his paintings could convey and express emotion.
Like
Zao Wou Ki
as well as Ray Parker.
He is best known by his work of the late 1950s early 1960s called his Simple Paintings. These paintings are characterized by discreet cloudlike forms of clear, and intense color set against a white or an off-white background. Parker’s paintings utilizing this method of stacked, clearly colored lozenges and floating forms are straightforward and basically geometric in shape. Ray Parker's works relate to and predict the
Color Field paintings of the 1960s, made popular by American artists such as Morris Louis, Friedel Dzubas, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, and Ellsworth Kelly
.
Selected public collections
- Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
- Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany, NY[4]
- The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
See also
- Post-Painterly Abstraction
- Abstract expressionism
- Lyrical Abstraction
- Color Field painting
References
- ^ "Ray Parker". 16 January 2018.
- ^ Post-Painterly Abstraction artist bios retrieved online July 21, 2008
- ^ Greenberg essay, retrieved online July 21, 2008
- ^ "Empire State Plaza Art Collection". Retrieved 21 November 2018.
External links
- Raymond Parker on artnet, retrieved July 21, 2008
- Raymond Parker at Washburn Gallery artnet, retrieved July 21, 2008
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