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Richard Pousette-Dart: Beginnings 23 October 2018 – 6 January 2019 Kettle's Yard Cambridge, United Kingdom
Exhibition
Richard Pousette-Dart: Beginnings
23 Oct 2018 – 6 Jan 2019
Address
- Castle Street
- Cambridge
- CB3 0AQ
- United Kingdom
A Young Abstract Expressionist in New York. Richard Pousette-Dart, working in New York in the 1940s, created beautiful, layered paintings as well as experimenting with drawing, photography and sculpture.
About
Playing a key role in the genesis of Abstract Expressionism and the New York School, which transformed American art in the post-war years, Pousette-Dart’s contemporaries included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Willem de Kooning. Jim Ede, creator of Kettle’s Yard, first met Pousette-Dart in New York in 1940. Research exploring their transatlantic correspondence over subsequent decades has been a catalyst for this first solo exhibition of the work of Pousette-Dart in the UK. The majority of works on display have been borrowed from US museums and collections, and have not previously been seen in this country.
‘With their bold colors, encrusted surfaces and luminous orbs, his paintings don’t so much hang on the wall as float in front of it.’ Roberta Smith, New York Times, 2007
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication reflecting new research into the life and work of Richard Pousette- Dart and his significant contribution to American art in the 20th Century.
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