A pivotal talent and pioneer of the Abstract Expressionist movement while he was still in his 20s, postwar American artist Jack Roth created an immense body of work over the course of several decades. Today original Jack Roth paintings are widely collected all over the world.
After serving in both the U.S. Army and the Air Force, the Pennsylvania-born Roth studied art at the California School of Fine Arts, now known as the San Francisco Art Institute, under American painters Mark Rothko, Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff. Despite his studies on the West Coast, Roth returned to PA and earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry at Penn State University in 1951. He subsequently completed his MFA work at the State University of Iowa and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at Duke University.
Staged in 1954, the “Younger American Painters” exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was a seminal show for Abstract Expressionism in the United States. A young Roth exhibited there as a 27-year-old alongside Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell. The well-established art dealership Knoedler & Co. in New York City added Roth to their star-studded roster, where his work appeared alongside paintings and sculptures by Alexander Calder, Nancy Graves, Adolf Gottlieb, Michael Goldberg and Frank Stella.
Over the course of his career, Roth taught math at several universities. While working on his doctoral thesis, in around 1963, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City purchased several of his artworks for their permanent collection, and he earned accolades in Art in America magazine. In 1979, Roth was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in painting. Today, Roth’s work is held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art and the North Carolina Museum of Art.
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Untitled (Rope Dancer Series)
By Jack Roth
Located in Astoria, NY
Jack Roth (American, 1927-2004), Untitled (Rope Dancer Series), Acrylic on Canvas, 1980, signed and dated verso with "Jack Roth Estate" stamp, unframed. 78" H x 109.75" W x 1" D. P...
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled (Gob Gob Series)
By Jack Roth
Located in Astoria, NY
Jack Roth (American, 1927-2004), Untitled (Gob Gob Series), Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated "Roth '78" verso with "Jack Roth Estate" stamp, unframed. 30.25" H x 38" W x 0.75" D...
Canvas, Acrylic
abstract modern expressionist in Green and Purple
By Jack Roth
Located in New York, NY
A striking and lively work by Roth that would be an exciting addition to any interior and is of high market value. Great frame of high quality - modernist flat panel frame with exceptional 24 karat silvered leafing. Large scale work by a highly collected American abstractionist. Born in Brockway, Pennsylvania in 1927 Jack Roth began his studies in chemistry at Pennsylvania State University in 1943 and, though his tenure there was interrupted by service in World War II, he would go on to earn a Bachelors degree in Chemistry, a Masters in Fine Arts, and a PhD in mathematics. At the California School of Fine Arts he studies under Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park and Elmer Bischoff, mentors who would soon become colleagues. Painting from a studio in New York City’s lower East Side, Roth attracted the attention of James Johnson Sweeney, Director of the Guggenheim Museum of Art, who selected Roth for the museum’s traveling exhibition Younger American Painters, a multi-venue exhibition which included work by Baziotes, Diebenkorn, Gottlieb, Guston, Kline, de Kooning, Motherwell, Pollock among others. In 1963 Museum of Modern Art curators Dorothy Miller and William Lieberman recommended that the periodical Art in America name Roth the new talent graphic artist and had themselves purchased several works for the museum’s permanent collection. He was then selected for a national traveling exhibition at the University of Kentucky, Graphics 63, which was circulated by the Smithsonian Institution. That same year he was included in a New Acquisitions exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. From 1963 to 1966 Roth taught at the University of Southern Florida in Tampa before moving to Montclair, New Jersey, where he was worked as chairman of the Mathematics department at Upsala College and concurrently as a mathematics professor and paintings professor at Ramapo College in 1971 where he was given a large studio, space enough to work with larger canvases developing as an Abstract Expressionist Color field painter. In 1978 the acclaimed gallery, Knoedler & Co. in New York City began their representation of Jack Roth’s work. At this time Knoedler & Co. represented Alexander Calder, Adolf Gottlieb...
Acrylic, Archival Paper
"Rope Dancer #10"
By Jack Roth
Located in Astoria, NY
Jack Roth (American, 1927-2004), "Rope Dancer #10", Acrylic on Canvas, 1980, titled, signed and dated "Roth 80" verso with "Jack Roth Estate" stamps, marked "JR 104-80" verso, accomp...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Rope Dancer # 5"
By Jack Roth
Located in Astoria, NY
Jack Roth (American, 1927-2004), "Rope Dancer #5", Acrylic on Canvas, 1980, titled, signed and dated "Roth 80" verso, with "Jack Roth Estate" stamp and marked "JR 108-80" verso, unfr...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Rope Dancer 7"
By Jack Roth
Located in Astoria, NY
Jack Roth (American, 1927-2004), "Rope Dancer 7", Acrylic on Canvas, 1980, signed, titled, and dated verso, gold-tone frame. Image: 69" H x 90" W; frame: 70.5" H x 91.25" W x 2.25" ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled (Abstraction)
By Jack Roth
Located in Astoria, NY
Jack Roth (American, 1927-2004), Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, 1977, signed and dated "Roth 77" and marked "JR-158-77" verso with "Jack Roth Estate" stamp, unframed. 37.5" H x 40" W ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled (Abstraction)
By Jack Roth
Located in Astoria, NY
Jack Roth (American, 1927-2004), Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, 1978, signed and dated "R 77" lower right edge, signed and dated "Roth 77" and marked "JR-156-77" verso with three "Jack...
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled (Abstraction)
By Jack Roth
Located in Astoria, NY
Jack Roth (American, 1927-2004), Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, 1978, signed and dated "R 77" lower right, signed, stated, and marked "JR-155-77" verso with "Jack Roth Estate" stamp, u...
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled (Abstraction)
By Jack Roth
Located in Astoria, NY
Jack Roth (American, 1927-2004), Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, 1980, signed and dated "R 80" lower right, marked "JR 3912" verso, dated to edge, unframed. 30.5" H x 36" W x 1.75" D. ...
Canvas, Acrylic
$62,400Sale Price|26% Off
New Synthesis #15
By Jack Roth
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract acrylic on canvas executed in bright, primary red, blue and yellow by Post War artist Jack Roth. Signed, dated and titled verso, "ROTH81 "NEW SYNTHESIS - 15".
Acrylic, Canvas
$8,600
Jack Roth, "Untitled"
By Jack Roth
Located in Dallas, TX
Jack Roth, Untitled, acrylic on paper, 1981. Signed lower right "Roth." Measures: Sheet 30" H x 22" W. Framed. Jack Roth (American/New York, 1927-2004). Abstract Expressioni...
Acrylic, Paper
$44,000Sale Price|20% Off
#2
By Jack Roth
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract acrylic on canvas painting executed in deep black, orange and yellow ochre on a white background by Post War artist Jack Roth. Signed verso, "JR-33-76." Jack Roth (192...
Acrylic, Canvas