Abstract Expressionism: the second wave

Permanent Collection:Act IV
ABSTRACT EPRESSIONISM: the second wave

M a r c a - R e l l i * M o t h e r w e l l * S t a m o s * G u s t o n * C o h e n

8. Summer Suite 1969 A, 1969, #4/50, collage, silkscreen, burlap, paper, aluminum, 28 x 28", 81.2.33a	9. Summer Suite 1969 B, 1969, #40/50, collage, silkscreen, burlap, paper, aluminum, 28 x 28", 81.2.33b
10. Summer Suite 1969 C, 1969, #45/50, collage, silkscreen, burlap, paper, aluminum, 28 x 28, 81.2.33c	11 Summer Suite 1969 D, 1969, #8/50, collage, silkscreen, burlap, paper, aluminum, 28 x 28, 81.2.33d
12. Summer Suite 1974 B, 1974, #41/50, collage, silkscreen, burlap, paper, 34 x 28, 81.2.34b	13. Summer Suite 1974 C, 1974, #49/50, collage, silkscreen, burlap, paper, 34 x 28, 81.2.34c
14. Summer Suite 1974 D, 1974, #2/50, collage, silkscreen, burlap, paper, 34 x 28, 81.2.34d	15. Summer Suite 1974 E, 1974, #32/50, collage, silkscreen, burlap, paper, 28 x 34, 81.2.34e
16. Summer Suite 1974 F, 1974, #43/50, collage, silkscreen, burlap, paper, 28 x 34, 81.2.34f	17. Y (Maquette for Tapestry), matting on poster board with paint, 47 x 34, 91.12.16
18. C (Maquette for Tapestry), matting and paint on canvas, 33 x 31, 91.12.17	19. T (Maquette for Tapestry), canvas, paper on red posterboard, 33 x 31, 91.12.18

CONRAD MARCA-RELLI, 1913-2000
AMERICAN, Born: Boston, MA

EDUCATION: Cooper Union, New York, 1930

TEACHING: Visiting Critic, Yale University, New Haven, 1954-55, 1959-60; University of California at Berkeley, 1958; Artist in Residence, New College, Sarasota, Florida.

AWARDS: Logan Medal for Seated Figure, 1954, Art Institute of Chicago.

EXHIBITIONS: Include one-man and group exhibitions in Italy, Peru, Germany, France, Switzerland, Tokyo, Argentina, Russia, 1947-1975; The Museum of Modern Art, NY 1961; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, 1966.

Conrad Marca-Relli's achievement has been to raise collage to a scale and complexity equal to that of monumental painting. Beginning in 1953, Marca-Relli accepted the potential risks inherent in collage and developed it as a complete pictorial system essentially without precedent in modern art. (Marca-Relli, William C. Agee, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, 1967, p.9)

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Permanent Collection:Act IV
ABSTRACT EPRESSIONISM: the second wave

M a r c a - R e l l i * M o t h e r w e l l * S t a m o s * G u s t o n * C o h e n

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