Paul Jenkins (painter)
Paul Jenkins ( born July 12, 1923 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, † June 9, 2012 in New York City ) was an American painter. He was one of the representatives of Abstract Expressionism.
Life and work
Paul Jenkins grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1948 he moved to New York City where he studied at the Art Students League of New York, first at Yasuo Kuniyoshi for 4 years, and later with Morris Kantor. In the early 1950s, reached his works and his early abstractions professional recognition, both in New York and in Europe. His first solo exhibition was Jenkins in 1956 in the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York. Jenkins painted in oil and acrylic on canvas and created watercolors on paper. His works have also echoes of the Lyrical Abstraction and Tachism.
His works can be found in international museums and collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, the Hirshhorn Sculpture Museum and Garden, Smithsonian institution, the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Fondation Maeght in Saint -Paul de Vence in France, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Tate Gallery in London.
In 1964, his works at the documenta in Kassel III were shown in the painting department. Other important exhibitions were also 1964 in the Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hannover and in 1971 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston instead. His first American retrospective was in 1972 at the San Francisco Museum of Art
Also, in recent years there have been important solo exhibitions worldwide, including 2005 ' oeuvre majeures " at the Palais des Beaux -Arts in Lille, 2000-2001 " Viaggio in Italia " in Palladio's Basilica in Vicenza or 1999 " Paul Jenkins: The Early Years in Paris 1954-1960 ", Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead instead.
Paul Jenkins was married to the American painter Alice Baber.
Literature and sources
- Documenta III. International Exhibition; Catalogue: Volume 1: Paintings and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand drawings; Volume 3: Industrial design, graphic; Kassel / Cologne 1964
- Paul Jenkins, monograph with text by Albert E. Elsen, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York 1973.
- Paul Jenkins, published in 1971 by Universe Books in cooperation with the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Art at the time of the artist 's retrospective, with text by Gerald Nordland, acknowledgments by Philippe de Montebello.