Victor Thall Figurative Paintings
American, 1902-1983
Born in New York in 1902, Victor Thall first attended the Art Students League in New York City where he studied under Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, John Sloan and Robert Henri. He furthered his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts before leaving for Paris, in 1924, to attend the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Academie Julien. He remained in France for six formative years before returning to the United States in the early 1930's. Back in New York, he became friendly with Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky and was both influenced and inspired by the ferment of ideas that developed around the New York School during the late 1940's and early 1950's. Thall was also an active participant in the WPA New Deal Art Project of New York City between 1935 and 1939 and returned to the Art Students League as a teacher from 1947-9. He exhibited widely and with success including at the Whitney Museum Annuals of 1949 and 1950 and the Leicester Gallery, London, in 1961. Victor Thall's paintings are held in numerous private and public collections including the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Newark Museum and the artist is listed in all relevant reference works including Who Was Who in American Art.
Select Exhibitions: 1968 DePoliolo Gallery, Palm Springs
1965 Studio Gallery, Naples, Florida
1964 L’lnstitute Francais d’Haiti
1964 Summit Gallery, New York City
1964 Southampton Gallery, New York City
1963 Guildhall Gallery, Chicago
1961 Leicester Gallery, London
1950 Whitney Museum , New York City
1949 Whitney Museum, New York City
1947 Binet Gallery, New York City
1946 Chinese Gallery, New York City
1944 Levitt Gallery, New York City
1944 Milch Gallery, New York City
1944 O’Connor Gallery, New York City
1943 Puma Gallery, New York City
Reference: Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 3, p. 3273; Falk, Peter Hastings , ed. The Annual and Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art 1918-1989. (New York): Sound View Press, 1991; Levick, L.E., "A Guide to the Art Galleries," New York Journal American, May 23, 1964. Review of one-man show at Southampton Gallery; 1950 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1950; Coates, Robert M., "The Art Galleries: Paul Klee, The Whitney Annual, and John Marin, The New Yorker, December 31, 1949, pp. 42-43; 1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. New York: Whitney; Museum of American Art, 1949; Lansford, Alonzo, "Thall at Binet," The Art Digest' December 15, 1947, ill; Upton, Melville, "George Binet Gallery," Sun, December 13, 1947; Devree, Howard, "Victor Thall at the Binet Gallery," New York Times, December 10, 1947; "Victor Thall at Binet Gallery," Art News, December 1947, p. 59; Oil Paintings by Victor Thall, New York: George Binet Gallery, 1947; et al.(Biography provided by MGH Discovered Art)
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Artist: Victor Thall
"Couple Holding a Baby" Colorful expressionist painting
By Victor Thall
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Couple Holding a Baby" c 1940 is an oil painting on hardboard by noted American artist Victor Thall, 1902-1983. It is signed at the upper right corner by the artist. The board size is 10.75 x 17.25 inches, framed size is 22.25 x 27,75 inches. Framed in original gold wash frame, with fabric liner. it is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Victor Thall belongs to that unique American brand of rugged individualist. Working closely for a time with such painters as Gorky and de Kooning, Thall wasn't content to join the burgeoning American clique of Abstract Expressionism. Instead, on the eve of its international recognition, he abandoned New York, making a worldwide tour of indigenous cultures attempting to find a solution to the crisis of abstraction.
Thall felt that painting needed to communicate in a way that Abstract Expressionism could not. Using parts of its vocabulary, Thall created work that was modern in spirit but based on fundamental traditions that he believed connected the whole history of art. In this way he resembled his contemporary Max Beckman, and it is fitting that Thall was chosen with Beckman by The New Yorker art critic Robert Coates as the best painter of the 1949 Whitney Annual.
Fiercely uncompromising in his opinions, Thall sadly fell into obscurity in his later years. Yet it was a willful obscurity. But America does eventually honor her difficult individualists, even if sometimes years after their deaths.
Victor Thall was born in New York in 1902. He studied at the Art Students League under Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, George Luks, and John Sloan. Further studies were at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He left for Paris in 1924 continuing his studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Academie Julien. Returning to the United States in the early 1930's, he became friendly with Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky. He participated in the WPA New Deal Art Project of New York City between 1935 and 1939. He taught at the Art Students League in the late forties and was represented in the Whitney Annual of 1949 and 1950. His paintings are in numerous private collections in the United States and Europe. He died in 1983.
Education:
1914 -1927 Art Student's League - Studied with:Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, George Bridgman, George Luks, Von Schlegel, Robert Henri, John Sloan, Frank Vincent du Mond.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts - Studied with:Arthur B. Carles, Henry McCarter
Ecole des Beaux Arts - Paris; Grande Chaumiere - Paris; Academie Julien, Paris
Teaching:
1947 -1949 Art Students League
Selected Bibliography:
Falk, Peter Hastings , ed. The Annual and Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art 1918-1989. (New York): Sound View Press, 1991.
Levick, L.E., "A Guide to the Art Galleries," New York Journal American, May 23, 1964. Review of one-man show at Southampton Gallery.
1950 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1950.
Coates, Robert M., "The Art Galleries: Paul Klee, The Whitney Annual, and John Marin, The New Yorker, December 31, 1949, pp. 42-43.
1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. New York: Whitney
Museum of American Art, 1949.
Lansford, Alonzo, "Thall at Binet," The Art Digest, December 15, 1947, ill.
Upton, Melville, "George Binet Gallery," Sun, December 13, 1947.
Devree, Howard, "Victor Thall at the Binet Gallery," New York Times, December 10, 1947.
"Victor Thall at Binet Gallery," Art News, December 1947, p. 59.
Oil Paintings by Victor Thall, New York: George Binet Gallery, 1947.
Burrows, Carlyle, "Art of the Week," Herald Tribune, 1946. Review of group show at the Chinese Gallery.
Coates, Robert M., "The Art Galleries: Past and Present," The New Yorker,
May 27, 1944, pp. 68-69
Victor Thall at Puma Gallery," Art News, November 1-14, 1943, p. 22.
Devree, Howard, "Victor Thall," New York Times, October 24, 1943.
Burrows, Carlyle, "Victor Thall at the Puma Gallery," Herald-Tribune,
October 24, 1943
Upton, Melville, "Victor Thall at Puma Gallery," Sun, October 23, 1943.
Lansford, Alonzo, "Varied Shows of the Week," The Art Digest, October 1943. Review of Puma Exhibition.
Victor Thall Oil Paintings, New York: Puma Gallery, 1943.
Art News, "Our Own Exhibition Gallery," June-july 1943, ill.
MacLeod, Norman. Thanksgiving Before November. New York, 1936. Book ill.
Selected Public and Private Collections:
Brooklyn Museum
Desmond Child, Los Angeles
Robert Crewe, Los Angeles
Sidney Lumet, New York
Newark Museum
Billy Steinberg, Los Angeles
1968 DePoliolo Gallery, Palm Springs
1965 Studio Gallery, Naples, Florida
1964 L’lnstitute Francais d’Haiti
1964 Summit Gallery, New York City
1964 Southampton Gallery, New York City
1963 Guildhall Gallery, Chicago
1961 Leicester Gallery, London
1950 Whitney Museum , New York City
1949 Whitney Museum, New York City
1947 Binet Gallery, New York City
1946 Chinese...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Victor Thall Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Mother and Child, expressionist painting
By Victor Thall
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Mother and Child" c 1940 is an oil painting on hardboard by noted American artist Victor Thall, 1902-1983. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The board size is 23.5 x 15.5 inches, framed size is 37 x 28.5 inches. Framed in original gold wash frame, with fabric liner. The painting is in excellent condition, the frame has some minor restorations.
About the artist:
Victor Thall belongs to that unique American brand of rugged individualist. Working closely for a time with such painters as Gorky and de Kooning, Thall wasn't content to join the burgeoning American clique of Abstract Expressionism. Instead, on the eve of its international recognition, he abandoned New York, making a worldwide tour of indigenous cultures attempting to find a solution to the crisis of abstraction.
Thall felt that painting needed to communicate in a way that Abstract Expressionism could not. Using parts of its vocabulary, Thall created work that was modern in spirit but based on fundamental traditions that he believed connected the whole history of art. In this way he resembled his contemporary Max Beckman, and it is fitting that Thall was chosen with Beckman by The New Yorker art critic Robert Coates as the best painter of the 1949 Whitney Annual.
Fiercely uncompromising in his opinions, Thall sadly fell into obscurity in his later years. Yet it was a willful obscurity. But America does eventually honor her difficult individualists, even if sometimes years after their deaths.
Victor Thall was born in New York in 1902. He studied at the Art Students League under Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, George Luks, and John Sloan. Further studies were at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He left for Paris in 1924 continuing his studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Academie Julien. Returning to the United States in the early 1930's, he became friendly with Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky. He participated in the WPA New Deal Art Project of New York City between 1935 and 1939. He taught at the Art Students League in the late forties and was represented in the Whitney Annual of 1949 and 1950. His paintings are in numerous private collections in the United States and Europe. He died in 1983.
Education:
1914 -1927 Art Student's League - Studied with:Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, George Bridgman, George Luks, Von Schlegel, Robert Henri, John Sloan, Frank Vincent du Mond.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts - Studied with:Arthur B. Carles, Henry McCarter
Ecole des Beaux Arts - Paris; Grande Chaumiere - Paris; Academie Julien, Paris
Teaching:
1947 -1949 Art Students League
Selected Bibliography:
Falk, Peter Hastings , ed. The Annual and Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art 1918-1989. (New York): Sound View Press, 1991.
Levick, L.E., "A Guide to the Art Galleries," New York Journal American, May 23, 1964. Review of one-man show at Southampton Gallery.
1950 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1950.
Coates, Robert M., "The Art Galleries: Paul Klee, The Whitney Annual, and John Marin, The New Yorker, December 31, 1949, pp. 42-43.
1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. New York: Whitney
Museum of American Art, 1949.
Lansford, Alonzo, "Thall at Binet," The Art Digest, December 15, 1947, ill.
Upton, Melville, "George Binet Gallery," Sun, December 13, 1947.
Devree, Howard, "Victor Thall at the Binet Gallery," New York Times, December 10, 1947.
"Victor Thall at Binet Gallery," Art News, December 1947, p. 59.
Oil Paintings by Victor Thall, New York: George Binet Gallery, 1947.
Burrows, Carlyle, "Art of the Week," Herald Tribune, 1946. Review of group show at the Chinese Gallery.
Coates, Robert M., "The Art Galleries: Past and Present," The New Yorker,
May 27, 1944, pp. 68-69
Victor Thall at Puma Gallery," Art News, November 1-14, 1943, p. 22.
Devree, Howard, "Victor Thall," New York Times, October 24, 1943.
Burrows, Carlyle, "Victor Thall at the Puma Gallery," Herald-Tribune,
October 24, 1943
Upton, Melville, "Victor Thall at Puma Gallery," Sun, October 23, 1943.
Lansford, Alonzo, "Varied Shows of the Week," The Art Digest, October 1943. Review of Puma Exhibition.
Victor Thall Oil Paintings, New York: Puma Gallery, 1943.
Art News, "Our Own Exhibition Gallery," June-july 1943, ill.
MacLeod, Norman. Thanksgiving Before November. New York, 1936. Book ill.
Selected Public and Private Collections:
Brooklyn Museum
Desmond Child, Los Angeles
Robert Crewe, Los Angeles
Sidney Lumet, New York
Newark Museum
Billy Steinberg, Los Angeles
1968 DePoliolo Gallery, Palm Springs
1965 Studio Gallery, Naples, Florida
1964 L’lnstitute Francais d’Haiti
1964 Summit Gallery, New York City
1964 Southampton Gallery, New York City
1963 Guildhall Gallery, Chicago
1961 Leicester Gallery, London
1950 Whitney Museum , New York City
1949 Whitney Museum, New York City
1947 Binet Gallery, New York City
1946 Chinese...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Victor Thall Figurative Paintings
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