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John ButtonUntitled #1871969
1969
$1,500
£1,145.24
€1,323.32
CA$2,105.72
A$2,347.04
CHF 1,231.41
MX$28,661.18
NOK 15,592.34
SEK 14,737.14
DKK 9,876.50
About the Item
Graphite on paper
Dated in pencil, l.r.
Numbered 187 in pencil, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
John Button (1929-1982) was a fine draftsman and drew from life models throughout his career. However, little-known are his sketches of male nudes—studio models from the School of Visual Arts (where Button taught), as well as personal acquaintances. Tim Dlugos writes: “The setting and the artist’s tools are as stripped down as the models: a naked man, a pencil, and a sheet of paper. Button creates erotic tension in these drawings not by addition . . . but by a remarkably effective process of subtraction.”
Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at University of California, Berkeley. After moving to New York City in the early 1950s, he became friends with Fairfield Porter and Frank O’Hara and assumed his part in the New York School of painters and poets.
Amidst the frenzy of Abstract Expressionism, Button remained true to his interest in realism, and is now most commonly associated with such New York School artists as Fairfield Porter, Jane Freilicher, and Alex Katz, among others. Concerning Button, Bill Berkson has written: “The scaled-up perceptual intimacy his best paintings assert is part of what the realist wing of the New York School developed, beginning in the ‘50s, as a counterthrust to—as well as an absorption of—abstraction’s headlong specifyings of applied paint.”
- Creator:John Button (1929 - 1982, American)
- Creation Year:1969
- Dimensions:Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 14 in (35.56 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU93232929681
John Button
John Button was a fine draftsman and drew from life models throughout his career. However, little-known are his sketches of male nudes and studio models from the School of Visual Arts, where Button taught, as well as personal acquaintances. Born in California, Button was educated at University of California, Berkeley. After moving to New York City in the early 1950s, he became friends with Fairfield Porter and Frank O’Hara and assumed his part in the New York School of painters and poets. Amidst the frenzy of Abstract Expressionism, Button remained true to his interest in Realism and was most commonly associated with such New York School artists as Fairfield Porter, Jane Freilicher and Alex Katz, among others.
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