Items Similar to "Jean Jean" Larry Zox, Color Field, Geometric Abstraction, Hard-Edge, Yellow
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 11
Larry Zox"Jean Jean" Larry Zox, Color Field, Geometric Abstraction, Hard-Edge, Yellow1964
1964
About the Item
Larry Zox
Jean Jean, 1964
Signed, dated, and titled on the stretcher
Liquitex on canvas
58 x 62 inches
Provenance:
Solomon & Co., New York
Private Collection, NJ
Estate of the above, 2023
Committed to abstraction throughout his career, Larry Zox played a central role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s and 1970s. His work of the time, consisting of brilliantly colored geometric shapes in dynamic juxtapositions, demonstrated that hard-edge painting was neither cold nor formalistic. He reused certain motifs, but he did so less to explore their aspects than to “get at the specific character and quality of each painting in and for itself,” as James Monte stated in his essay for Zox’s solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1973. By the 1970s, Zox was using a freer, more emotive method, while maintaining the autonomy of color, which increasingly became more important to him than structure in his late years.
Zox began to receive attention in the 1960s, when he was included in several groundbreaking exhibitions of Color Field and Minimalist art, including Shape and Structure (1965), organized by Henry Geldzahler for the Gallery of Modern Art, New York, and Systemic Painting (1966), organized by Lawrence Alloway for the Guggenheim Museum. In 1973, the Whitney’s solo exhibition of Zox’s work gave recognition to his significance in the art scene of the preceding decade. In the following year, Zox was represented in the inaugural exhibition of the Hirshhorn Museum, which owns fourteen of his works.
Zox was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Drake University. While studying at the Des Moines Art Center, he was mentored by George Grosz, who despite his own figurative approach encouraged Zox’s forays into abstraction. In 1958, Zox moved to New York, joining the downtown art scene. His studio on 20th Street became a gathering place for artists, jazz musicians, bikers, and boxers. He occasionally sparred with the visiting fighters. He later established a studio in East Hampton, where he painted and fished including using a helicopter to spot fish.
In the 1950s and early 1960s, Zox’s works were collages consisting of painted pieces of paper stapled onto sheets of plywood. He then produced paintings that were illusions of collages, including both torn- and trued-edged forms, to which he added a wide range of intense hues that created ambiguous surfaces. Next, he omitted the collage aspect of his work and applied flat color areas to create more complete statements of pure color and shape.
From 1962 to 1965, he produced his Rotation Series, at first creating plywood and Plexiglas reliefs, which turned squares into dynamic polygons. He used these shapes in his paintings as well, employing white as a foil between colors to produce negative spaces that suggest that the colored shapes had only been cut out and laid down instead of painted. The New York Times noted in 1964: “The artist is hip, cool, adventurous, not content to stay with the mere exercise of sensibility that one sees in smaller works.”
In 1965, he began the Scissors Jack Series in which he arranged opposing triangular shapes with inverted Vs of bare canvas at their centers that threaten to split their compositions apart. The Diamond Cut and Diamond Drill paintings followed. In these, Zox used regularized formats as a means of revealing how color can change our perception of shape. In a single work he often combined industrial epoxy paints with acrylic to set up tensions between colors that would not exist otherwise. At the time, Peter Schjeldahl observed in The New York Times: Zox “is one painter who shows an ability to play by the rules without cramping at all an essentially romantic and exuberant sensibility.” His art of the period was equated with that of Frank Stella and Kenneth Noland.
In the late 1960s, Zox’s paintings, such as in his Gemini Series, became brushier and he often incorporated powdered mica into his paints to increase their visual effect. In the early 1970s, he explored a variety of new means of applying paint, including squeegees and other large tools. With these means, he moved away from preconception, while introducing a drawing procedure in which the outside limits of a painting were determined by cutting or cropping the canvas.
Zox’s work is included in many important public collections. In addition to the Hirshhorn, it belongs to the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Neues Museum, Bremen, Germany; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; and many others.
- Creator:Larry Zox (1936-2006, American)
- Creation Year:1964
- Dimensions:Height: 58 in (147.32 cm)Width: 62 in (157.48 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1841212707782
Larry Zox
Larry Zox was one of the principal representatives of the generation of young painters following the era of the Abstract Expressionists. He is best known for his exuberant geometric abstractions. Many classified him as an Abstract artist, but he considered himself to be a Colorist, which made a strong contribution to the Color Field movement of the 1960s. Zox utilized geometric forms in a mechanistic format and fewer contrasting colors in a design that is based upon improvisation. His works conform to the modern idea that art must be done with fluidity, acceleration and rapidity of execution.
About the Seller
5.0
Gold Seller
Premium sellers maintaining a 4.3+ rating and 24-hour response times
Established in 2022
1stDibs seller since 2022
99 sales on 1stDibs
Typical response time: <1 hour
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Shipping from: New York, NY
- Return Policy
Authenticity Guarantee
In the unlikely event there’s an issue with an item’s authenticity, contact us within 1 year for a full refund. DetailsMoney-Back Guarantee
If your item is not as described, is damaged in transit, or does not arrive, contact us within 7 days for a full refund. Details24-Hour Cancellation
You have a 24-hour grace period in which to reconsider your purchase, with no questions asked.Vetted Professional Sellers
Our world-class sellers must adhere to strict standards for service and quality, maintaining the integrity of our listings.Price-Match Guarantee
If you find that a seller listed the same item for a lower price elsewhere, we’ll match it.Trusted Global Delivery
Our best-in-class carrier network provides specialized shipping options worldwide, including custom delivery.More From This Seller
View All"Untitled" Dan Christensen, Geometric Plaid Series, Orange and Blue Abstract
By Dan Christensen
Located in New York, NY
Dan Christensen
Untitled, circa 1970-71
Acrylic and enamel on canvas
44 x 20 inches
Provenance:
The artist
Sherron Francis (gift from the above)
Dan Christensen was an American abs...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Ouverture, with Cypress Forms" Stephen Edlich, Abstract Geometric Painting
By Stephen Edlich
Located in New York, NY
Stephen Edlich
Ouverture, with Cypress Forms, 1982
Signed, dated and titled on the stretcher
Acrylic paint, mixed media, and burlap on canvas
60 x 40 inches
An artist who worked in the post-cubist and constructivist traditions, Stephen P. Edlich gained a considerable amount of acclaim in the 1970s and 1980s for his collages, sculpture, and paintings. His promising career was cut short due to his untimely death at age 45 in 1989.
Edlich was born in New York City. He received his undergraduate degree with a major in fine arts studies from New York University in 1967. During his college years, he traveled to London, where he met the art dealer Victor Waddington and created his first white on white collage. In that same year, he attended a major exhibition of the work of Ben Nicholson, which would be influential source in his art. Edlich returned to England in 1967, where he met Barbara Hepworth and Patrick Heron in London and traveled to St. Ives, Cornwall, long a favorite artists' haunt. Edlich began creating acrylic reliefs...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Burlap, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$60,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"DK. Green, Scarlet, Blue" Oli Sihvonen, Abstract Vertical Geometric Composition
Located in New York, NY
Oli Sihvonen
DK. Green, Scarlet, Blue, circa 1977
Signed and titled on the reverse
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Known for large, hard-edged abstractions, Oli T. Sihvonen, a Bro...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Twice Told Tale (3)" David Shapiro, Rare Oil on Canvas Symbolic Composition
By David Shapiro
Located in New York, NY
David Shapiro
Twice Told Tale (3), 11/1983
Signed and dated on verso
Oil on canvas
44 x 22 inches
David Shapiro was born in 1944 in Brooklyn, New York. His artwork, as described by...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Abstract (with Two White Vases) " Ed Baynard, Still Life Composition
By Ed Baynard
Located in New York, NY
Ed Baynard
Abstract (with Two White Vases), 2005
Signed, titled, and dated along the verso
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 40 inches
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Untitled, " Knox Martin, Abstract Expressionism
By Knox Martin
Located in New York, NY
Knox Martin (1923 - 2022)
Untitled
Signed to lower edge
Acrylic and gold foil on canvas
9 x 9 inches
Knox Martin (1923-2022) was an esteemed New York School painter. Knox Martin was born in 1923 in Barranquilla, Colombia. He was the son of the aviator, painter, and poet William Knox Martin, the first man to fly over the Andes Mountains.
After serving in World War II, Knox Martin attended the Art Students League of New York on the G.I. Bill from 1946-1950, where he studied with Harry Sternberg, Vaclav Vytlacil, Will Barnet, and Morris Kantor.
In 1954, Knox Martin's friend Franz Kline placed a painting of his in the Stable Gallery Annual. Charles Egan of the renowned Charles Egan Gallery saw Knox Martin's painting at the Stable Gallery and asked Martin to show his work in a one-man show for the tenth anniversary of the Egan Gallery.
Since then, Knox Martin was a celebrated painter, sculptor and muralist. Knox Martin had an extensive exhibition record and his work is in museum, corporate and private collections worldwide. His two best-known murals in NYC are Venus and Woman with Bicycle...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold, Foil
You May Also Like
Coincidence, Geometric Abstract Series
By Robert Petrick
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert W. Petrick
Coincidence
Geometric Abstraction
East Village NYC, 2022
acrylic on canvas
New York, 2nd street studio
Colorful geometric abstract ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Fractured Land #3
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alejandro Rubio
Fractured Land #3, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
55 x 55 inches
This one-of-a-kind acrylic painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars.
This painting is p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
F-BYR-G11-16, Framed
By Steven Kinder
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Steven Kinder talks a lot about energy, form and movement and getting at the essence of something. Getting to the middle of it. H...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Pigment
Passing Through #2 (Geometric Abstract Painting in Yellow, Beige and White)
By Jeanette Fintz
Located in Hudson, NY
Geometric and gestural abstract painting on canvas in earth tones of beige, tan, light brown, with details of white and pale yellow
"Passing Through #2", by Jeanette Fintz in 2018
54...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ascending
By Ian Hagarty
Located in Roma, RM
multi layer combination of acrylic painting in this abstract geometric painting by American artist Ian Hagarty
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,669 Sale Price
20% Off
Signed unique Acrylic and Charcoal Painting on Canvas, renowned British sculptor
By Nigel Hall
Located in New York, NY
Nigel Hall
Untitled Acrylic and Charcoal Painting on Canvas, 1997
Acrylic and charcoal painting on canvas
Signed and titled by the artist on the front. Dated on the back.
36 × 30 inc...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
