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Walter Darby BannardSicilian Magician - lt ed silkscreen by renowned abstract expressionist Signed/N1980
1980
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Walter Darby Bannard
Siciliian Magician, 1980
Silkscreen on wove paper
Pencil signed, titled and dated by the artist on the front
Unframed
Provenance: Bart Gallery, Providence, RI
This superb screenprint is by Abstract Expressionist and Color Field artist Walter Darby Bannard, a former distinguished professor of art, Hans Hofmann scholar, and longtime friend and scholar of Frank Stella. At a NYC gallery talk, Frank Stella mentioned Bannard as an artist whose work he collected. The work is in excellent condition and has never been framed. The paper has deckled edges and would look attractive floated and framed. It was acquired from Bart Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, which exhibited Bannard's work in the 1980s.
Biography of Walter Darby Bannard, American, 1934-2016
A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) was committed to color-based and expressionist abstraction for over six decades.
During his undergraduate years at Princeton University, he joined fellow students, the painter Frank Stella and the critic and art historian Michael Fried, in conversations that expanded aesthetic definitions and led to an emphasis on opticality as the defining feature of pictorial art. Bannard has continued to explore attributes of color, paint, and surface through innovative methods, striving throughout his career for vital and original expressive means. He has also been an important writer on formalist issues in art, serving as an editor for Artforum and a contributor to Art International. His extensive publications date from the 1960s to the present. In the early 1990s, Bannard moved to Miami. He served as professor and head of painting at the University of Miami, Coral Gables for over 25 years.
Bannard was born in 1934 in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated from Princeton University in 1956. Bannard, who made drawings and watercolors throughout his youth, was self-taught as a painter. He derived inspiration for his earliest paintings from the art of William Baziotes, Theodoros Stamos, and Clyfford Still. By the late 1950s, he had turned from an expressionistic style to working with large areas of contrasting color, creating austere minimal paintings.
In the next decade, he was one of the first artists to blend artist’s materials with commercially produced tinted alkyd resin house paints in a search for greater color options. In 1964, he was included in the landmark exhibition, Post-Painterly Abstraction, organized by Clement Greenberg and held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His first solo exhibitions were in 1965, at Kasim Gallery, London; Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago; and Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York. He was also included that year in the Museum of Modern Art’s, The Responsive Eye. In 1968, Bannard received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a National Foundation of the Arts Award.
In the early 1970s, Bannard’s focus shifted to an exploration of the liquid quality of paint. Drawn to the new acrylic mediums that were becoming available, he began working on the floor using thick gel surfaces and color suspended in Magna or polymer mediums. At the time, he “thought of color as a liquid, flowing over and settling on a roughened surface, changing as it mixed and dried.” His method involved stapling his canvases to slightly raised wooden platforms. After tightly sizing his canvases, he scraped on colored gel with squeegee-like tools. When the surface was dry, he poured colored polymer over it in layers, allowing the paint to find its place. He was drawn at the time to close-valued rather than strong colors and often allowed his pale warm grounds to serve as colors in their own right rather than acting as supports for other colors. Karen Wilkin stated in Color as Field (2007): “Bannard probed just how subtle chromatic nuances could be before they became unbroken expanse. In these pictures, even composition could be reduced to a kind of near-negative, an echo of something no longer there” (p. 61). In the late 1970s, Bannard was instrumental in the retrospective exhibition of the work of Hans Hofmann. He curated the 1976-77 exhibition and wrote the catalogue that accompanied it.
During a painting workshop in Saskatchewan Canada in 1981, Bannard developed a kind of gel “drawing” on canvas, in which he applied his paint on large sheets of fiberglass. By the middle of the decade, he had returned to a slower, more subtle system of marking his gel, while also returning to pouring colored polymer. He also reincorporated expressionist methods in his art. In 1987, he began his “brush and cut” paintings, consisting of large scale canvases in which he applied transparent tinted gel with large street brooms and industrial floor squeegees to make painted “drawings,” featuring vigorous brushwork and three-dimensional illusions. After moving to Miami, he incorporated more color into his large paintings, while producing small mixed-media “landscapes” on paper, inspired by the flat land and water and the lowering sun of the Florida Everglades.
Throughout his career, Bannard has moved between the poles of Expressionism and Color Field Painting, resulting in a body of art that has constantly evolved as the artist has forthrightly faced the situations that his art presented, reacting to them with rigor and intuition.
In 1983, Bannard held an Invitational Residency at the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition to position at the University of Miami, he has taught at many art schools, including the School of Visual Art, New York. Over the course of his career, Bannard had almost one hundred solo exhibitions and was included in an even greater number of group shows. Bannard is represented in public collections across the country as well as abroad. A selection of museum collections include Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Victoria, Australia; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York; the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
- Creator:Walter Darby Bannard (1934, American)
- Creation Year:1980
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)
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- Condition:very good condition with no apparent issues; deckled edges.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745213741412
Walter Darby Bannard
Bannard is known for his lyrical abstraction, minimalism, and color field paintings. Exhibition: Pasadena Art Museum 1973.
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