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Walter Darby Bannard
Walter Darby Bannard, Ammersee #2 signed painting by renowned Color Field artist
1975

Name: Walter Darby Bannard, Ammersee #2 signed painting by renowned Color Field artist
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Walter Darby Bannard Ammersee #2, 1975 Watercolor and acrylic painting on paper Signed, titled and dated lower recto This is a unique work Frame included: elegantly floated and framed in a museum quality wood frame with UV plexiglass The present work, Ammersee #2, refers to the German name for Lake Ammer in Upper Bavaria, Germany, southwest of Munich between the towns of Herrsching and Dießen am Ammersee - the sixth largest lake in Germany. (Like other Bavarian lakes, Ammersee developed as a result of the ice age glaciers melting.) Abstract Expressionist and Color Field artist Walter Darby Bannard was a distinguished professor of art, Hans Hofmann scholar, and longtime friend and scholar of Frank Stella. At a New York gallery talk, Frank Stella mentioned Bannard as an artist whose work he collected. Measurements: Frame: 23 inches x 28.5 inches Artwork itself: 18.5 inches x 23.25 inches This work is floated and framed in an elegant wood frame with UV plexiglass in accordance with museum conservation standards. Walter Darby Bannard was a Color Field painter whose elegant, severe abstract paintings of the late 1950s and early ’60s were the springboard for a lifetime’s exploration of color, form and the physicality of paint. Mr. Bannard, whose keen critical intelligence was reflected in his many essays on art, spent more than half a century elaborating and revising the distillation of color and form that made him an important voice in the nascent Color Field movement, sometimes called post painterly abstraction. Soon after graduating from Princeton, where he found common cause with the painter Frank Stella and the critic Michael Fried, he experimented with swirling, turbulent paintings, using new materials like alkyd resin, before arriving at a refined minimalism that confronted viewers with an isolated, luminous geometric form — usually a disc or a square — hovering over a single-color ground. The critic Clement Greenberg included him in the pivotal show “Post Painterly Abstraction” at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1964, and the Museum of Modern Art showed his work the following year in “The Responsive Eye.” Bannard was on his way. Over the years, he ventured into new territory, dissolving the geometry of his early painting, loosening the brushwork and complicating his surfaces with polymers and gels that lent a topographic quality to his work; it often suggested a strange landscape seen from a great height. In every phase, Bannard showed a subtle color sense all his own, and a knack for deploying his forms in a slightly unnerving way, keeping viewers captivated and off-balance. Walter Darby Bannard, usually called by his middle name, was born on September 23, 1934, in New Haven. His father, Homes, was a railroad manager who moved the family often from one assignment to the next, to New Jersey and, during World War II, to Washington. His mother, Janet Darby, was a homemaker. His taste for modernism surfaced early. At 11 he noticed, in the color section of a Sunday newspaper, a clown painting and a reproduction of a painting by the British abstractionist Ben Nicholson, with the question “Which kind of art do you like?” He voted for Nicholson, the butt of the joke. “I said to myself, well, I sure know what I like,” he told Artcritical. “In fact I’m going to cut it out and put it in my wallet.” After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy, Mr. Bannard enrolled in Princeton, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1956. At college he became absorbed in painting and soon began experimenting in the manner of Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. An exhibition by the American abstract painter Barnett Newman suggested to him that his urge to focus on a simple, central image was correct. “That told me that I had permission to do what I was doing,” he told Artcritical. He had his first solo show at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 1965. In 1973 the Baltimore Museum of Art organized a retrospective exhibition that traveled to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Like many of his Color Field contemporaries, Mr. Bannard embraced new mediums that allowed him to expand his visual vocabulary. First came alkyd resins, then acrylics, applied with rollers and rags. Later he adopted tinted gels and polymers, which he applied with squeegees and, in the “brush and cut” series he began in the late 1980s, commercial floor brooms. He began thinking of color, he said in a 1990 catalog essay, “as a liquid, flowing over and settling on a roughened surface, changing as it mixed and dried.” As a critic and commentator, Mr. Bannard wrote frequently for Art in America, Art International and other publications. In 1976 he organized and wrote the catalog for a retrospective of the work of Hans Hofmann at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture garden in Washington. In 1989 he became chairman of the art department at the University of Miami. After a period of neglect, Mr. Bannard began attracting renewed attention in the last decade when the Berry Campbell Gallery presented shows of his earlier work. “These colors are still radiant,” the critic Phyllis Tuchman wrote in Artforum, reviewing work from the late 1950s and early 1960s exhibited last year. “And the artist’s pale palette is as uniquely personal today as it was fifty years ago. You can’t even apply a name to his hues.”

Creator:

Walter Darby Bannard (1934, American)

Creation Year:

1975

Dimensions:

Height: 23 in (58.42 cm)Width: 28.5 in (72.39 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)

Medium:

Ink,Mixed Media,Acrylic,Watercolor,Graphite

Movement & Style:

Color-Field

Period:

1970-1979

Condition:

In good condition other than overall minor, unobtrusive waviness to sheet. Elegantly floated and framed in museum conservation wood frame.

Gallery Location:

New York, NY

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1745216212002

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Walter Darby Bannard, Ammersee #2 signed painting by renowned Color Field artist
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