By Paul Jenkins
Located in London, GB
Phenomena like Byron by PAUL JENKINS (1923-2012)
Acrylic on canvas
74 x 60 cm (29¹/₈ x 23⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, Paul Jenkins
Signed, titled and dated on the reverse and on the stretcher
Executed in 1990, Saint Paul
Provenance
Waterhouse & Dodd Fine Art, London/New York
Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above in 2012
Private collection, Austria
Artist biography
Born in Kansas City, the multi-media artist, poet and playwright Paul Jenkins began his studies at Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Students League in New York City. After his discharge from military service at the end of February 1946, he briefly studied playwriting with dramatist George McCalmon at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Thereafter, Jenkins spent four years studying with Japanese American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi in New York City. His first solo exhibitions were held at Studio Paul Facchetti in Paris in 1954 and the Martha Graham Gallery in New York City in 1956. Over the past thirty years, numerous retrospectives have been curated across the globe and Jenkins’ work can found in national collections from Europe and the United States to Israel, Australia and Japan.
The diversity of Jenkins’ work springs from a wealth of eclectic influences. Some of his earliest works included what he called "interior landscapes", influenced by ancient natural forms. Frequent student visits to the Frick Collection in New York fostered a love of the great masters, and lingering student visits to the renowned Eastern collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City evoked powerful sympathy for a monumental Chinese fresco...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bette Ridgeway Abstract Paintings