Research Catalog

Title

Vance Kirkland 1904-1981 / edited by Peter Weiermair ; with texts by Peter Weiermair and Dianne Perry Vanderlip.

Author

Kirkland, Vance, 1904-1981

Publication

Zurich ; New York : Stemmle, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Frankfurter Kunstverein.
• Vanderlip, Dianne Perry.
• Weiermair, Peter.

Description

160 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports.; 26 cm.

Summary

"Vance Kirkland (Ohio, 1904 - Denver, 1981) was a fine, mysterious American painter whose unique abstract methods were not discovered and appreciated until after he died. During the first half of his fifty-four year career, he was nationally famous in America for his masterful realist and surrealist watercolor, gouache and casein paintings and he exhibited with such artists as Dali, Ernst, Margritte and Miro. The abrupt transition to abstraction and oil sent him into a spiral of oblivion but also into increasingly brilliant and distinctive paintings. He had started mixing watercolor and denatured alcohol, and later oil paint and water for a major period of resist abstract expressionism." "Kirkland's paintings have been awakened from their isolation in the middle of America to take a rightful place in global art."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Kirkland, Vance, 1904- > Exhibitions
• Kirkland, Vance, 1904-1981 > Exhibitions
• Watercolor painting > 20th century > United States > Exhibitions
• Watercolor painting > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions

Note

• Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, June 14-July 26, 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-158).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Vance Kirkland: a Painter's Journey / Dianne Perry Vanderlip 11 -- Plates 25.

ISBN

3908161460

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library