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Frederick Hammersley : to paint without thinking / edited by James Glisson ; with contributions by Alan Phenix, Kathleen Shields, and Nancy Zastudil.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Seattle : Lucia/Marquand
San Marino, CA : The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2017.
New York, NY : Artbook/D.A.P.
©2017
Description
x, 109 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage (ReCAP): Marquand Library Use Only
ND237.H282 A4 2017
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Hammersley, Frederick 1919-2009
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Hammersley, Frederick 1919-2009
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Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
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New Mexico Museum of Art
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Editor
Glisson, James
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Phenix, Alan
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Shields, Kathleen, 1955-
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Zastudil, Nancy, 1979-
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Summary note
American painter Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009) is best known for his hard-edged geometric abstractions. However, their elegant simplicity belies the complex system behind their creation. Thanks to sketchbooks, notebooks and color swatches reproduced in this catalog, the artist's beautiful documentation of his multistep way of working out compositions is on full view. These artworks and archival materials show that rather than an all-at-once creative act, Hammersley's method was step-by-step and structured by rules. Essays by Alan Phenix, a conservation scientist, as well as by Kathleen Shields and Nancy Zastudil, who manage the artist's foundation, bring to light new scientific findings about his paintings.
Notes
"This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking, at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens from October 21, 2017-January 22, 2018; and the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe from May 26, 2018-September 9, 2018."
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Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Director's foreword / Kevin Salatino
Curators' acknowledgments / James Glisson and Alan Phenix
Introduction / James Glisson
Frederick Hammersley / Kathleen Shields
For the record and straight from the horse's mouth / Alan Phenix
Working area / Nancy Zastudil
Not untitled / James Glisson
Lithography and experimentation / James Glisson.
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ISBN
9780998681719 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
0998681717 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
LCCN
2017025674
OCLC
975487758
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