Jack Roth
abstract modern expressionist in Green and Purple
1981

Name: abstract modern expressionist in Green and Purple
Brand: Jack Roth
Price: 14000 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

A striking and lively work by Roth that would be an exciting addition to any interior and is of high market value. Great frame of high quality - modernist flat panel frame with exceptional 24 karat silvered leafing. Large scale work by a highly collected American abstractionist. Born in Brockway, Pennsylvania in 1927 Jack Roth began his studies in chemistry at Pennsylvania State University in 1943 and, though his tenure there was interrupted by service in World War II, he would go on to earn a Bachelors degree in Chemistry, a Masters in Fine Arts, and a PhD in mathematics. At the California School of Fine Arts he studies under Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park and Elmer Bischoff, mentors who would soon become colleagues. Painting from a studio in New York City’s lower East Side, Roth attracted the attention of James Johnson Sweeney, Director of the Guggenheim Museum of Art, who selected Roth for the museum’s traveling exhibition Younger American Painters, a multi-venue exhibition which included work by Baziotes, Diebenkorn, Gottlieb, Guston, Kline, de Kooning, Motherwell, Pollock among others. In 1963 Museum of Modern Art curators Dorothy Miller and William Lieberman recommended that the periodical Art in America name Roth the new talent graphic artist and had themselves purchased several works for the museum’s permanent collection. He was then selected for a national traveling exhibition at the University of Kentucky, Graphics 63, which was circulated by the Smithsonian Institution. That same year he was included in a New Acquisitions exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. From 1963 to 1966 Roth taught at the University of Southern Florida in Tampa before moving to Montclair, New Jersey, where he was worked as chairman of the Mathematics department at Upsala College and concurrently as a mathematics professor and paintings professor at Ramapo College in 1971 where he was given a large studio, space enough to work with larger canvases developing as an Abstract Expressionist Color field painter. In 1978 the acclaimed gallery, Knoedler & Co. in New York City began their representation of Jack Roth’s work. At this time Knoedler & Co. represented Alexander Calder, Adolf Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Frank Stella, David Smith, Nancy Graves and Michael Goldberg. In 1979 he was rewarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in painting and in 1982 he received a New Jersey Council on the Arts Grant. Roth continued to balance his many interests — mathematics, teaching, painting, sculpting and poetry for two decades until his death in 2004.

Creator:

Jack Roth (1927-2004, American)

Creation Year:

1981

Dimensions:

Height: 40.5 in (102.87 cm)Width: 32.75 in (83.19 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)

Medium:

Acrylic,Archival Paper

Movement & Style:

Abstract

Period:

1980-1989

Condition:

Paper has normal handling and surface that comes with an abstract expressionist working on it. Frame is newly made in the past seven years and has lovely patination and finish that is hand done.

Gallery Location:

Greenwich, CT

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU141329457542

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