Nicholas Krushenick

American, 1929-1999

orn in the Bronx, New York in 1929, Nicholas Krushenick studied painting at the Art Students League of New York and the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts. After completing his training, Krushenick designed window displays and worked in the Framing Department of the Museum of Modern Art. From 1957 to 1962, the artist, along with his brother John, operated the now legendary Brata Gallery in Manhattan’s East Village. Brata displayed the works of many of the foremost artists of the day, including, among others: Ronald Bladen, Ed Clarke, Al Held, Yayoi Kusama, and George Sugarman. Krushenick first developed his signature “pop abstract” style in the early 1960s. The loose geometries and web-like forms of his early paintings demonstrate his deliberate caricature of Abstract Expressionist “drips” or “skeins” into what more closely resemble details from cartoons—like Superman’s hair follicles, as critic Robert Rosenblum once described. The high-keyed color, formal rigor, and sheer graphic intensity of his paintings set Krushenick apart from his contemporaries. As a result, decades after its creation, Krushenick’s work still appears remarkably fresh. During the 1960s and 1970s, Krushenick had solo exhibitions at many of the most influential and prestigious galleries, including: Graham Gallery (1958, 1962, 1964, New York), Fischbach Gallery (1965, New York), Galerie Sonnabend (1967, Paris), Galerie Ziegler (1969, Zürich), Galerie Beyeler (1971, Basel), and Pace Gallery (1967, 1969, 1972, New York). During this period, his work also figured prominently in many landmark museum exhibitions, such as Post Painterly Abstraction (1964, Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Vormen van de Kleur (1964, Stedelijk Museum), Systemic Painting (1965, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), and Documenta 4 (1968, Fredericianum), among others. In 1968, the Walker Art Center mounted a retrospective exhibition of Krushenick’s work. His first European retrospective came four years later, in 1972, at the Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hannover, Germany. In 2015 he had a retrospective at the Tang Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York entitled Nicholas Krushenick: Electric Soup. Krushenick’s work is featured in the collections of over sixty major museums, including: the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Dallas Museum of Fine Art; the Empire State Art Collection; the Grey Art Gallery, New York University; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Stedelijk Museum; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

(Biography provided by Stone and Press Gallery)

Creator: Nicholas Krushenick

Nicholas Krushenick Screenprint circa 1965

By Nicholas Krushenick

Located in New York, NY

Fabulous Early Screen Print by Nicholas Krushenick (1929-1999) circa 1965. This was part of an art collection that came from the Frank Lloyd Wright House...

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1960s North American Vintage Nicholas Krushenick

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Nicholas Krushenick Screenprint circa 1965

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Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Nicholas Krushenick

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Original Vintage Print of Mushrooms, circa 1900

No Reserve

H 9 in W 6 in D 0.07 in

Antique Portrait of Gerrit Dou 'circa 1850'

Located in Langweer, NL

Portrait of Gerrit Dou. Gerrit Dou (7 April 1613 – 9 February 1675), also known as Gerard and Douw or Dow, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, high...

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Mid-19th Century Antique Nicholas Krushenick

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H 8.67 in W 7.68 in D 0.02 in

Original Antique Whaling Print, Circa 1800

Located in St Annes, Lancashire

Great image of a whaling scene Copper-plate engraving Published C.1800 Unframed.

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Early 1800s English Folk Art Antique Nicholas Krushenick

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Original Antique Whaling Print, Circa 1800

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H 9.75 in W 7.25 in D 0.07 in

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Nicholas Krushenick Colored Lithographs, 1965

By Nicholas Krushenick

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Nicholas Krushenick (1929-1999) one of the forerunners of the pop art movement original lithographs in colors on thick wove paper signed on the reverse in pencil and annoted "Tam Imp...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Nicholas Krushenick

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Nicholas Krushenick Colored Lithographs, 1965

H 29 in W 21 in D 1 in

"James Bond Meets Pussy Gallore" by Nicholas Kushenick, Silkscreen/Colors, 1964

By Nicholas Krushenick

Located in New York, NY

"James Bond meets Pussy Gallore", original silkscreen in colors on paper, 1964, by Nicholas Kushenick (American 1929-1999) number 18 from the limited edition of 200, printer: Steven ...

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1960s American Post-Modern Vintage Nicholas Krushenick

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"James Bond Meets Pussy Gallore" by Nicholas Kushenick, Silkscreen/Colors, 1964

H 17.5 in W 23 in D 1 in

Silkscreen "Pink" by Nicholas Krushenick, Pencil Signed Artist Proof 5/6, 1979

By Nicholas Krushenick

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

This silkscreen titles "Pink" is by the iconic artist Nicholas Krushenick was created in 1979 and has just been reframed with a linen mat and silver-leafed frame. The piece is pen...

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Late 20th Century Modern Nicholas Krushenick

Silkscreen "Pink" by Nicholas Krushenick, Pencil Signed Artist Proof 5/6, 1979

H 44.5 in W 37 in D 1.75 in

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