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Raymond Parker
Ray Parker unique signed to dealer Carl Solway, Abstract Expressionist painting
1978

Name: Ray Parker unique signed to dealer Carl Solway, Abstract Expressionist painting
Brand: Raymond Parker
Price: 7000 USD
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Raymond Parker Untitled (Abstract Expressionist painting), 1978 Acrylic on Paper. Hand signed, inscribed "For Carl" [Carl Solway, gallerist] and dated 1978 on the upper left front; bears Carl Solway gallery label on the back Frame Included Acrylic on paper painting by renowned New York Abstract Expressionist Ray Parker. Inscribed "For Carl" [gallerist Carl Solway], hand signed and dated 1978 top left recto. Framed in the original vintage 1970s metal frame with Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati label on the verso, bearing the gallery's unique inventory number for the artwork. Measurements: frame: 23 x 22 x 1 inches sheet: 22 x 21.75 inches Very good original condition; not examined outside of vintage frame but appears fine. RAY PARKER BIOGRAPHY Ray Parker was born in 1922 in South Dakota. After completing his MFA at the State University of Iowa, he moved to New York City in 1951. In 1955, he was hired as a Professor of Art at Hunter College, where he would teach until his death in 1990 in New York. Throughout the 1950s he was included in a number of important group exhibitions organized by major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American art. He would go on to exhibit widely across the country at galleries like the Stable Gallery and the Kootz Gallery in New York, as well as the Dwan Gallery and Paul Kantor Gallery in California. Ray Parker’s “Stroke” paintings in the early 50s developed into the “Simple Paintings” done in the late 50s and early 60s. These consisted of a small number of cloudlike color shapes arranged across an often large canvas. The colors and their relationships to each other are the strength and drive behind these works. Parker worked on these intuitively, almost improvising each painting in turn. Of these works, he said, ‘Those isolated spots of color came to me just by staring at the empty canvas…I spread it out until it came into fullness of volume or a sense of reality, and I stopped there.” [1] In the 1970s and 80s, Parker moved away from his “Simple Paintings” towards a curvelinear style that allowed freedom of movement. That developed into his line paintings in which he squeezed color directly from the tube. He expanded on these lines with colored grounds, and then back to areas of color with linear elements. Since 1997, the Estate of Ray Parker has been represented by the Washburn Gallery, which has organized many Parker exhibitions from different periods throughout his life. His work is placed in many museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. -Courtesy Washburn Gallery

Creator:

Raymond Parker (1922 - 1990, American)

Creation Year:

1978

Dimensions:

Height: 23 in (58.42 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)

Medium:

Graphite,Acrylic,Paper

Movement & Style:

Abstract Expressionist

Period:

1970-1979