Harry Nadler Art
American, b. 1930
Nadler was born in 1930 in Los Angeles. He graduated from UCLA with a Masters degree and joined the faculty of Wesleyan University in CT. In 1971, he moved to New Mexico to teach painting at the University of New Mexico, while keeping a home in Amagansett, NY. Nadler died in 1990 in Albuquerque, NM.(Biography provided by Lincoln Center Editions)
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Artist: Harry Nadler
Spiral of Time II
By Harry Nadler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Spiral of Time II
Mixed media with acrylic on paper, 1986
Signed lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 35 x 15 1/2 inches
Provenance: Peter Marciniak, New Hampshire
Distinguished Midwest Private Collection
Select Exhibition:
1991 Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)
1980 Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1974 Bertha Schaefer Gallery; New York, NY (solo)
1972 Childe Hassam Purchase Show, National Institute of the Arts and Letters
1971 "The Turkish Bath of Ingres,” Louvre Museum, Paris, France
1971 Guest Artist, Tamarind Institute; Albuquerque, NM
1970 “American Drawings of the Sixties,” New School Art Center; New York, NY
1966 Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1962 Dwan Gallery; Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1959 Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Museum Collection:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Fine Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Harwood Museum of Art, Taos
"An abstract painter who lived in New York City; Amagansett, Long Island, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, Harry Nadler is described as a "formalist abstract painter of the 1960s-90s whose works were marked by their rich colors, transparencies, and labyrinthine constructions. —The attempt to capture in a purely abstract imagery the quintessential quality of light and contour that emanate from a particular landscape is a hazardous pictorial ambition, but Mr. Nadler has met the challenge of this problem with remarkable success.˜ (Hilton Kramer, The New York Times, April 27, 1974)
Noted Fine Print Publications: Lincoln Center/Fine Art Prints,1990, "Live From Lincoln Center", screen print,edition72
Harry Nadler Biography
DESCRIPTION WITHOUT PLACE
A story Harry told me that he felt was a metaphor for his life and work was about his "golden bird." One day, when he was eight, he was walking home from school, a dangerous task for a Jewish boy in East Los Angeles in the '30s. He carried a painting he had made in school. He had to walk through a dark tunnel and was afraid. His painting of a beautiful, golden bird, radiating tropical colors, shone in the dark and he lost all his fear. The image of beauty, flight, darkness, and the power of his own image-making, stayed with him his whole life.
He discovered a kind of freedom in school; he graduated when he was 16, went to art school, supported himself as an illustrator for a newspaper; then discovered a wide new world of literature and fine arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned a B.A. and an M.A., and his talent as an artist manifested itself in teaching assistantships and in painting awards and early shows. His affinity for European painting was strong, and he yearned to go to New York and immerse himself in the museums and in the current work being done by the abstract expressionists.
Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Spain in 1960, Harry fulfilled his dream of traveling to Europe and studying Goya's Disasters of War at the Prado. His commitment to finding a visual language to express his deep ethical concerns began at this time. He produced a series of works dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust and called the Buchenwald Landscapes and exhibited this body of work at the end of his year in Spain. He agonized over it, feeling that the imagery was too literal. He was searching for something--a formal instrument that reached a meaning beyond the obvious horror of the subject matter.
On his return to the United States, he relocated to New York City, believing that his artistic roots lay there. He first made a living by teaching extension courses, while studying great paintings in the city's museums, participating in the current art world and developing his own work.
Between 1961 and 1965, Harry made paintings of strange spaces filled with autobiographical objects. The poetry of Wallace Stevens powerfully affected him especially. For Harry, the activity of painting was a way of connecting separate realities. The work of imagination, metaphor, or "seeming" as Stevens described it, takes place in the gap between disparate elements, making connections of meaning on a deeper level. In this gap, he struggled to formulate with precision his understanding of his tools: his materials, his knowledge of philosophy and art history, his religious tradition, his life experience. In this gap, he lived with the anxiety of knowing, with faith in a process larger than himself. And he worked. Geometry became a way of speaking about ultimate purity, wholeness, relatedness; the sensuous material of paint and the particular way he combined those materials became a way of expressing the quality of his own experience.
He named a painting series Description Without Place, in honor of Stevens. In this series, windows and boxes hold images of experience (painted objects, that both separate and merge the spaces of the painting. He combines images of crucifixion and blackness, with the vitality of life in both object and color. The breaking of edges and boundaries, merging the spatial and the temporal, continued throughout his life.
In 1965, he was offered a teaching position at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. There he began his series, Homage to Ingres, shown in New York City in 1969, followed by a sports series...
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By Harry Nadler
Located in New York, NY
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Taos Series
By Harry Nadler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Taos Series
Mixed media on handmade paper, 1987
Signed lower right (see photo)
Created while the artist was working in the Santa Fe/Taos area.
Provenance: Peter Marciniak, New Hampsh...
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Taos Series
By Harry Nadler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
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Signed and dated by the artist lower right
Archival framing with Conversation Glass
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An abstract painter who lived in New York City; Amagansett, Long Island, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, Harry Nadler is described as a "formalist abstract painter of t...
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