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William BriceUntitled #11 Two Forms Red Ground Abstract Expressionist Aquatint Etching1990
1990
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Untitled #11 (Two Forms, Red Ground),
Color soap ground and spit bite aquatints.
Image size: 23¾ x 17¾"; paper size: 38 x 30". Edition 15.
Published by Crown Point Press and printed by Pamela Paulson.
William Brice (April 23, 1921 – March 3, 2008) was an artist known for his large-scale abstract paintings. Born to actress Fanny Brice and professional gambler Julius W. "Nicky" Arnstein, on April 23, 1921, he spent his early years living with his mother and his sister, Frances (later the wife of producer Ray Stark), while their father was in prison on a variety of charges stemming from a history of thefts, swindles, and confidence schemes. Artists such as Clifford Odets and the Gershwin brothers were frequent visitors.
William's talent was recognized early, and even in childhood, he had the services of a private art tutor. Important influences included then-active artists Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso (one of whose works Brice acquired at the age of fourteen).
Their mother, pursuing a career in radio, moved them to Beverly Hills. There he attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles (1937–39, 1940–42), as well as the Art Students League of New York in New York City (1939–40). His first solo show of paintings and drawings was presented at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in 1947. The early work was figural and representational. A 1950 L.A. Times review of his solo exhibition at the Frank Perls Gallery (Beverly Hills) praises the still lifes "that stress the geometrical aspects of common objects." Over time, he moved in the direction of greater abstraction, but rejected more progressive movements such as Abstract Expressionism and Action Painting. His work was characterized by expert draughtsmanship. He is particularly remembered for the "classic modernism" of his late work, in which masses reminiscent of ancient ruins figure prominently, inspired in part by an important trip to Greece in 1970.
From 1948 until 1952, he taught at the Jepson Art Institute in Los Angeles, and the following year began his long tenure at UCLA, continuing until his retirement in 1991, where he was a beloved teacher, and mentored generations of artists, for whom he "offered a connection to European Modernism" including students such as Peter Alexander, Judy Chicago, Charles Garabedian, Ed Moses and others."
Brice's work is part of the permanent collections of such major museums as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
He was in a 1950 Show at MoMA that included Umberto Boccioni, Constantin Brancusi, George Grosz, Robert Gwathmey, Fernand Léger, Marino Marini, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Theodore Roszak, Kurt Schwitters, Ben Shahn and other greats.
Marika Herskovic, American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism: Style Is Timely Art Is Timeless (New York School Press, 2009.) Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003.)
- Creator:William Brice (1921 - 2008)
- Creation Year:1990
- Dimensions:Height: 39 in (99.06 cm)Width: 31 in (78.74 cm)
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- Condition:it is currently matted. Unframed. to be shipped flat, matted it will be 125$ shipped rolled in a tube will be 50$.
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38213735132
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