Untitled Abstract Expressionist painting

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Peter Busa
Untitled Abstract Expressionist painting
ca. 1950

About the Item

Peter Busa (1914-1985). Untitled, ca. 1950. Oil on canvas, 19 x 25 inches. Signed lower right. No damage or conservation. Period wormy chestnut wood frame. Peter Busa 1914-1985 Education: Carnegie Institute, with Simboli, Rosenberg, Kostello, Benton Art Students League Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art Exhibitions: Worlds Fair, New York, 1939 Walker Art Center Art of this Century, Peggy Guggenheim, 1946 American Federation of Arts, "Young Painters USA" Whitney Museum of American Art Art Institute of Chicago, 1940 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1946, 1951-54 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1954 Chrysler Museum, 1959 (retrospective) Ford Foundation, 1962 (prize) Parrish Art Museum Carlebach Gallery Bertha Schaefer Gallery, 1949-51 Collections: Smithsonian Institution Guggenheim Museum Walker Art Center Whitney Museum of American Art Chrysler Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art Everson Museum Butler Institute of American Art Dayton Art Institute Parrish Art Museum Portland Art Museum Tweed Museum of Art Rutgers University University of North Carolina University of Minnesota Syracuse University Smith College Cornell University Brandeis University Provincetown Art Association and Museum Colby College Cooper Union Museum Cornell University University of Massachusetts Minneapolis Art Institute Michigan State University Peter Busa was a central figure in the New York School, a truly original thinker, and a pioneer of modern art. Though difficult to categorize, his work was clearly influenced by his close associations with Matta, Pollock, Motherwell, Baziotes, Kamrowski, and Hofmann. His early work is of two types. The first was based on the automatic technique of the Surrealists. The paintings of this type rely heavily on poured or dripped paint and date from the mid-forties typically. The second type of painting was more geometric -often angular- and these paintings were heavily influenced by Native American design motifs. These are commonly referred to as "Indian Space paintings." Busa's Indian Space paintings date from the late thirties to the late fifties. After abandoning Indian Space for styles more closely akin to straightforward abstract expressionism and geometric abstraction during the sixties and seventies, Busa returned to an evolved form of Indian Space painting in the eighties. In his introduction to the catalogue for Peter Busa's 50 year retrospective exhibition: Life Colors Art, Robert Metzger summarized Busa's career by saying: "…Busa has presented problems for…art historians since his highly original and diverse body of work and his mastery of styles…have made him difficult to pigeonhole. His expansive repertory of forms defies translation into verbal language for they reveal truths which cannot be expressed in words. …despite his successful exhibitions with such leading galleries as Peggy Guggenheim, Carlebach, and Bertha Schaefer he [has not yet] made it into the celebrity bandwagon of dealers,…collectors, and the art press. The personal poetry and awesome range and depth of his body of work remains one of the great undiscovered treasures of Twentieth Century American art…."

Creator:
Peter Busa (1914-1985, American)
Creation Year:
ca. 1950
Dimensions:
Height: 25 in (63.5 cm)Width: 19 in (48.26 cm)
Medium:
Oil
Movement & Style:
Abstract Expressionist
Period:
Mid-20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Wilton Manors, FL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU24525956472