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Ray ParkerRay Parker at Molly Barnes Rare collectible abstract 1960s LA exhibition print1968
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Ray Parker
Ray Parker at Molly Barnes: Rare vintage 1960s LA exhibition poster, 1968
Offset lithograph
Printed by Contemporary Art Lithographers, Minneapolis, Minnesota
36 × 24 inches
Unframed
Accompanied by Certificate of Guarantee issued by the present gallery
Offset lithograph published on the occasion of Ray Parker's exhibition at the Molly Barnes Gallery in Los Angeles./ Unnumbered and unsigned; this print is extremely rare and rarely seen on the market. Likely only 50-100 were printed
RAY PARKER BIOGRAPHY
Ray Parker was born in 1922 in South Dakota. After completing his MFA at the State University of Iowa, he moved to New York City in 1951. In 1955, he was hired as a Professor of Art at Hunter College, where he would teach until his death in 1990 in New York.
Throughout the 1950s he was included in a number of important group exhibitions organized by major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American art. He would go on to exhibit widely across the country at galleries like the Stable Gallery and the Kootz Gallery in New York, as well as the Dwan Gallery and Paul Kantor Gallery in California.
Ray Parker’s “Stroke” paintings in the early 50s developed into the “Simple Paintings” done in the late 50s and early 60s. These consisted of a small number of cloudlike color shapes arranged across an often large canvas. The colors and their relationships to each other are the strength and drive behind these works. Parker worked on these intuitively, almost improvising each painting in turn. Of these works, he said, ‘Those isolated spots of color came to me just by staring at the empty canvas…I spread it out until it came into fullness of volume or a sense of reality, and I stopped there.” [1]
In the 1970s and 80s, Parker moved away from his “Simple Paintings” towards a curvelinear style that allowed freedom of movement. That developed into his line paintings in which he squeezed color directly from the tube. He expanded on these lines with colored grounds, and then back to areas of color with linear elements.
Since 1997, the Estate of Ray Parker has been represented by the Washburn Gallery, which has organized many Parker exhibitions from different periods throughout his life. His work is placed in many museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
More about The Molly Barnes Gallery
Longtime Los Angeles gallerist Molly Barnes claimed to have been the longtime summer mistress of artist Willem de Kooning over the course of 17 years in his Easthampton residence and studio. She also claimed to have launched the careers of many artists throughout her decades-long career as a Los Angeles dealer and curator, including John Baldessari, Gronk, Mark Kostabi and Robert Cottingham. Barnes was the host of the radio program, Molly Barnes Art News, and is the author of three books about the art business, including How to Get Hung, A Practical Guide for Emerging Artists. Barnes also hosted “Molly Barnes Brown Bag Lunches,” a regular forum for artists in Manhattan’s Roger Smith Hotel.
- Creator:Ray Parker (1922 - 1990, American)
- Creation Year:1968
- Dimensions:Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)
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- Condition:Very good condition; no issues.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745215258702
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