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Richard HennessyRichard Hennessy 1974 Colorful Vibrant Abstract Geometric Painting Modernist Art1975
1975
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Painting on Paper
Hand signed and dated lower right
Frame measures 24.5 X 30.5 sheet is 18 X 24 inches
This piece has a jewel toned stained glass quality to it.
The artist Richard Hennessy creates pictorial space as a complex and contradictory entity. The colorful ground uses alternately concave and convex forms and negative space to indicate overlapping geometric shapes. He works in oil painting, acrylic, watercolor and mixed media.
Richard Hennessy, 1972. Born in Rochester, NY, in 1941, Hennessy began as a gifted concert pianist studying at the Eastman School of Music from 1954-1959. He went on to study art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, from 1963-66, after which he began his career as a fine artist. His early paintings were quickly admired and supported by Henry Geldzahler, curator of Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His first exhibition was in 1969 at Olivier Bernier Inc. NYC, followed in 1970 by a show at the Tibor De Nagy Gallery, also in NYC. Over the years he has shown in San Francisco, Indiana, Arizona, Florida, and at other prominent NYC galleries including Robert Miller, Hamilton, John Good and a retrospective at NYU’s Grey Gallery. Aaron Copeland, America’s foremost composer, and John Ashberry, America’s premier poet, were early champions of his work. He is in NYC collections of the Brooklyn, Metropolitan, Guggenheim and Whitney Museums, as well as the Copland Manor house in Cortland NY, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and many others. He has been the recipient of grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and the Ann & Erlo Van Waveron Foundations. Art critic Roberta Smith called his work “ironic, lyrical abstraction.” Critic Christopher Scott: “Hennessy has, unlike many modern artists, not ignored the history of art, and his works are enriched by the paintings, sculptures, buildings, decorative arts, photographs, films, music and literature that he immersed himself in. He has harnessed the power of his talent and intelligence for artistic purposes leading to virtuoso maximalist. He has applied this intelligence with the same adventurousness of spirit visible in the early abstractions of Hans Hofmann and Willem de Kooning, spontaneous yet precise.”
Education
Eastman School of Music, 1954-59
Columbia College, B.A., 1963
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1963-66
Solo Exhibitions
1991 Margulies/Taplin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
1989 Ball State University, Muncie, IN
1986 Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo
1986 John Good Gallery, New York
1985 Getler/Pall/Saper Gallery, New York
1983 Hamilton Gallery, New York
1982 Hamilton Gallery, New York
1981 Ivory Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco
1980 Hamilton Gallery, New York
1978 Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1976 Retrospective Exhibition, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York
1976 Olivier Bernier, Inc., New York
1970 Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York
1969 Olivier Bernier, Inc., New York
Group Exhibitions
2021 Cincinnati Art Museum "American Painting: The Eighties Revisited"
(important show included Nancy Graves, Sam Gilliam, Elizabeth Murray, Mark Schlesinger, Louisa Chase, Joan Thorne and Robert Moskowitz
2014 Geoffrey Young Gallery "Elements of Style" Gt. Barrington, MA
2007 Ville de Reims "Global Books: Les Livres d'Artiste de Gervais Jassaud"
2006 “Abstract Landscapes”, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
2006 “My Friends-Their Vision” , Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT
2000 “Aaron Copland’s America” The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
1997 “La Tentation du Livre”, Espace Culturel de Tinqueux, France
1992 The Artist, The Writer And The Book Design (Artists's Books from Collectif Génération), Columbia University, New York
1992 Group Show, Margulies/Taplin Gallery, Miami
1991 Abstract Painting: The 90's, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
1991 Livres d'Artistes of Collectif Génération, French Cultural Services, New York
1991 Contemporary Art, Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida at Gainesville Gainesville, FL
1991 Richard Hennessy and Jeffrey Wasserman, Nina Freudenheim Gallery Buffalo
1990 The Painter and his Occasion, curated by Alan Jones, Marta Cervera Gallery New York
1989 Small Paintings, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo
1988 Five Painters, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo
Public Collections
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
American Telephone and Telegraph
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Centro Cultural, Museo Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
Dow Jones
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York
I. T. & T.
Italian Relief Fund
J.P.Morgan Chase
Jack S. Blanton Museum,University of Texas, Austin
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
MoMA/P.S.1, stairwell mural
New York University, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Reader's Digest
Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida at Gainesville
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Shimizu Construction, Tokyo
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, California
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
- Creator:Richard Hennessy (1941 -, American)
- Creation Year:1975
- Dimensions:Height: 24.5 in (62.23 cm)Width: 30.5 in (77.47 cm)
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- Condition:good, well protected. frame has minor wear.
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38216478072
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Timeline:
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Most recently, Munk has been producing a series of paintings which tackle the subject of art itself through a historical and diagrammatic lens. Munk documents the New York art world in YouTube videos, using the name James Kalm.
Timeline:
1979 Attended Art Students League, New York
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1969-72 Attended Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
1951 Born, Salt Lake City, Utah
Select Group Exhibitions
2018 “Under Erasure” curated by Heather and Raphael Rubinstein at Pierogi Gallery New York
2016 "It Was Never Linear: Recent Painting" at the Sheldon Museum of Art Lincoln Neb. with: Robert Bordo, Dawn Clements, Lois Dodd, Michelle Grabner, Colin Prahl, Peter Saul, Barbara Takenaga, and Stanley Whitney
2014 "Some Artists" curated by Matthew Deleget at Minus Space. David Diao, Mary Beth Edelson, Alfred Jensen, George Maciunas, Loren Munk, Ward Shelley, John Zinsser
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2011 "ABC123" curated by Janet Goleas at Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y.
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"It's All Good: Apocalypse Now" curated by Richard Timperio, Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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