Paul Jenkins (United States painter)

Paul Jenkins (United States painter)

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birthdate = 1923
location = Kansas City, Missouri
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nationality = American
field = Painting
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movement = Abstract expressionism, Lyrical Abstraction
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Paul Jenkins (born 1923) is a U.S. abstract expressionist painter.

Biography

He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1948, he moved to New York where, on the G.I. Bill, he studied at the Art Students League of New York with Yasuo Kuniyoshi (4 years) and with Morris Kantor. In the early 50s, he achieved prominence both in New York and Europe for his early abstractions. His first solo exhibition in New York was in 1956 with the Martha Jackson Gallery.

Works and Exhibitions

As of 2008, he continues to work in acrylic on canvas, as well as watercolor on paper. His work is found in international museums and collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul, in France, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Tate Gallery in London.

Retrospective exhibitions include:
*Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover (1964)
*Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1971) traveling to the San Francisco Museum of Art (1972) (first American retrospective)
*Musée des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium (1974)
*Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California (1980-81);
*Musée Picasso, Antibes (1987).

Major solo exhibitions include:
*2005 " Œuvres Majeures," Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille;
*2000-2001 "Viaggio in Italia," Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza;
*1999 " Paul Jenkins: The Early Years in Paris 1954-1960," Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead;
*1994 "Water and Color," Watercolor exhibition traveling in France;
*1989 "Broken Prisms and Shaman to the Prism Seen," Musées de Nice;
*1972 Traveling watercolor exhibition inaugurated at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

References

*John Berger in "The Guardian", 19 October 2005 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1595453,00.html]

Books

* Marika Herskovic, [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/50253062&tab=holdings "American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey,"] (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
* "Paul Jenkins", monograph with text by Albert E. Elsen, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York 1973.
* "Paul Jenkins," published in 1971 by Universe Books in cooperation with the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the San Francisco Museum Art at the time of the artist's retrospective, with text by Gerald Nordland, acknowledgements by Philippe de Montebello.

ee also

*Abstract expressionism
*Lyrical Abstraction
*Tachisme

External links

* [http://www.pauljenkins.net Home page]
* [http://www.pauljenkins2005.com/ Palais des Beaux-Arts]


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