Jimmy Ernst Shadow To Light Paintings 1942-1982 Art Gallery 1997

Description: This listing is for the following book - If you have any questions please let me know. Book Title - Jimmy Ernst Shadow To Light Paintings 1942-1982 Book Author - Jimmy Ernst, Essays by Donald Kuspit and Stanley I Grand Book Publisher/Year - Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa 1997 // 48 pages Book Condition - Near Fine. Intact soft cover has glossy finish, no chips or tears, top front corner tip bumped. Complete text is clean and undamaged. A sharp, bright and clean copy with binding on the tight side. Content - Hans-Ulrich Ernst (June 24, 1920 – February 6, 1984), known as Jimmy Ernst, was an American painter born in Germany. Ernst became director of The Art of This Century Gallery in 1942. A year later he had his first one-person exhibition.During the late 1940s he became a member of The Irascible Eighteen, a group of abstract painters who protested against the Metropolitan Museum of Art's policy towards American painting of the 1940s, and who posed for a famous picture in 1950. Members of the group included: Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne, Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst, Jackson Pollock, James Brooks, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Theodoros Stamos, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko. These artists are part of the New York School they were referred to as The Irascibles in an article featured in an issue of Life where the infamous Nina Leen photograph was published. 027

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