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Memories, 1958 Mid-Century Figurative Expressionist Painting w/Museum Provenance

Memories, 1958 Mid-Century Figurative Expressionist Painting w/Museum Provenance

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Walter Quirt
Memories, 1958 Mid-Century Figurative Expressionist Painting w/Museum Provenance

About the Item

"Memories" (1958) was one of forty-two paintings featured in the traveling retrospective titled simply "Walter Quirt", sponsored by the American Federation of Arts (AFA) with a grant from the Ford Foundation in 1960. Between 1960 and 1962, this retrospective moved through seventeen American cities, the work being exhibited in museums, universities, and cultural centers, and viewed by thousands of people. It bears the stamps of the AFA Retrospective and Minneapolis Art Institute Exhibition (1962). There was an exhibition catalogue published with the essay contributed by Robert Coates (1897-1973), art critic for the New Yorker magazine and advocate of Quirt's work. "Memories" is catalogue No. 29. It bears both the AFA Walter Quirt Retrospective and Minneapolis Art Institute (later renamed Minneapolis Institute of Art) stickers from 1960-1962 tour on back. Throughout the early-late 1950s, Quirt's subject matter were predominantly women and he began using a staining technique and "expanded his use of the counter curve, explaining in his essays that he equated this motion with positive, non-aggressive energy". (Mary Towley Swanson, 1980). Although painted in 1958 - the height of abstract expressionism - Quirt seldom worked in pure non-objective abstraction, preferring the human figure as the composition's predominant focus. He was known to say, "I like people." The painting in Quirt's rich, effusive color and requisite curves/counter-curves, has in spite of it's bold palette and towering scale, a tranquil, Madonna-like transcendence. Indeed, Mary Towley Swanson wrote, "The woman was used as a symbol in Quirt's paintings from 1951-to 1966. From her introduction as a prominent theme in a series of paintings between 1953 and 1955, she evolved in several directions...A series of figures enacting religious events developed from these paintings of monumental women...vaguely gazing at something outside the canvas." After his death in 1968, his widow, Eleanor, in an act of profound grief, kept all his paintings close to her and in climate-controlled storage; unseen by anyone but a few; the artist's legacy ultimately falling into obscurity. In 2015, the first exhibition of Quirt's paintings was produced by Frederick Holmes And Company, Seattle, and the gallery has remained the exclusive representative of the artist's estate. Quirt's work is found in over thirty permanent American public collections, including MoMA, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC; the deYoung Museum, San Francisco; San Francisco MoMA, and others. The exhibition catalogue from the 2017 retrospective, "Walter Quirt: A Science of Life" is included with the purchase of any Quirt painting or work on paper, while supplies last..

Creator:
Walter Quirt (1902 - 1968, American)
Dimensions:
Height: 69 in (175.26 cm)Width: 50 in (127 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
Medium:
Oil
Period:
1950-1959
Condition:
Painting is backed with foam core and museum tags (AFA & Minneapolis Art Institute) are attached verso.
Gallery Location:
Seattle, WA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2410211802272

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