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John LittleImbrium1958
1958
$40,000
About
In 1937, at the age of 20, Little started working with Hans Hofmann in both New York and
Provincetown. This pushed him towards abstraction and his first serious involvement as a
painter. At Hofmann’s school he met artists such as Lee Krasner, George McNeil, Gerome
Kamrowski, Giorgio Cavallon and Perle Fine.
In 1942 he went into the service as a navy aerial photographer. After the war he returned to New York and, with nowhere to stay, moved into Hans Hofmann’s 8th Street studio where his neighbors were Lee Krasner and
Jackson Pollock. The paintings of the late 1940s reveal great experimentation and a
growing interest in both Surrealist automatism, Picasso, and the theories of Hans Hofmann.
In 1946 Little was given his first one-man show at the California Palace of the Legion of
Honor in San Francisco with a follow-up solo show at Betty Parsons in 1948.
In the early 1950s Little abandoned the flat, linear style of the 40s with new works painted
in thick, gestural buildup of paint, similar to that seen in Imbria. In 1951 he moved to East
Hampton, where he maintained a closed friendship with Pollock - the two had a joint
exhibition in 1955 at Guild Hall. In 1957 Little helped found the Signa Gallery, an important
outpost in East Hampton for the growing New York art scene and host to many influential
exhibitions. Little continued to actively exhibit until his death in 1984.
Little had solo exhibitions at, among others, Betty Parsons Gallery in 1948, Bertha Schaefer Gallery in
1957 and 1958, Worth Ryder Gallery in 1963, A.M. Sachs Gallery in 1971 and a
retrospective at the Guild Hall Museum in 1982. His work is part of the permanent
collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Guild Hall Museum, Ball State University Museum of Art and Galerie Beyeler among others.
Details
- CreatorJohn Little (1907-1984, American)
- Creation Year1958
- DimensionsHeight: 40 in. (101.6 cm)Width: 40 in. (101.6 cm)
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- Gallery LocationLawrence, NY
- Reference Number1stDibs: LU149728886762
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