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200 Grand Cove Way Edgewater, NJ 07020 , United States Call Seller 201.736.2572

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  • Description
    Bernard Schiff, later to become curator of the Smithsonian collection, wrote in The New York Post, "of the mature, seasoned and genuine painters … who have been working in the non objective mode for some considerable years, one who strikes me consistently as being of major size and substance is Sidney Gross."

    "There is a concentration here of what I must call - paying proper respect to the words - a notable beauty; they are works of heroic force. Gross' colors are magnificent. It is not a simple question of how they look but what, in a deeper sense, they do to the mind. They activate sensation and emotion; they stimulate thought and beyond that, connection and feeling. It is senseless to attempt in specific language to describe them, since one cannot really speak of the colors by themselves. They are not to be separated from the force of the shapes, symbols, motion and, indeed events which they describe and in their effect are. Gross' paintings are dramas and sagas of experience and of feeling, descriptions at the moment of the very process of their being."

    "These are extravagant words because they are meant to be. Gross is a superb artist. His soul and mind and heart are in these works. This must be how thought, feeling and sensationare at the instant of their becoming and Gross is able to give form and shape and visual materiality to these mysterious processes of the mind."

    Sidney Gross showed early promise as a painter of significance. He attended the Art Students League on scholarship, and later taught there in the 1960s. He died at the height of his career. Unfortunately, unlike many of his contemporaries whose work became more valuable after their deaths, circumstances combined to obscure his work. He had no children; his first wife died; his wife of a few months donated over 100 paintings to Art Students League, which is not an exhibiting institution; his sister put an equal number in storage; the owner of the long time Rehn Gallery, which had given him almost annual solo exhibits from 1949 to 1969 died leaving no family members to take over the gallery. His assistant kept it going for a few more years.

    PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
    Albright Art Gallery
    Allentown Museum of Art - 1967
    American Academy of Arts & Letters - Childe Hassam Fund - 2 paintings
    Baltimore Museum - 1961
    Brandeis University -1956
    Butler Institute of American Art - 1953, 1961, 2004
    Walter P. Chrysler Museum - 1960
    Colby College - 1958
    Columbia University - 1962
    Cornell University - 1958
    Corcoran Gallery of Art - 1961
    Israel Museum of Art - Jerusalem - 1965
    Lempert Institute - 20 paintings purchased 1948-52
    James Michner Collection - University of Texas - 1967
    Morgan State College - 1961 - reproduction available
    Norfolk Museum of Art - 1962
    Oklahoma Art Center - 1968
    Provincetown Art Museum -1969
    Princeton Museum - before1953
    Mt. Holyhoke University - 1950
    Michigan State University - 1960,1966
    Norfolk Museum 1961
    Riverside Museum - 1959, 1963, 1966
    Standard Financial Corporation 1958, 1959, 1960
    Syracuse University - 1963, 1965
    Washington Gallery of Modern Art - 1962
    Whitney Museum - purchases 1945, 1946, 1955
    University of Georgia - 1949
    University of Illinois - 1959
    University of Omaha - 1951
    University of Maryland 1965
    University of Rochester - 1966
    University of Texas - James Michner Collection
    (date indicates when entered in collection)

    SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITS
    Whitney Museum - multiple exhibits beginning in 1945
    Armory Show - 1945
    Brooklyn Museum - 1945
    Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1950
    Museum of Modern Art, New York - 1949, 1959, 1961
    Carnegie Museum of Art - multiple exhibits beginning 1951
    Corcoran Museum of Art - multiple exhibits
    Pennsylvania Academy of Art - multiple exhibits beginning 1945
    University of Nebraska
    Institute of Contemporary Art - Boston - 1951
    National Academy of Design - 1946, 1948
    Toledo Museum of Art - 1947
    Nelson Gallery - 1951
    Albright Art Gallery - 1947, 49, 1951
    Butler Institute of American Art - several exhibits beginning 1953
    Virginia Museum of Fine Arts - 1949
    Detroit Institute of Art - 1951
    Milwaukee Art Institute - 1946, 1951
    Joslyn Art Museum - 1954
    Jewish Museum, NYC
    Art USA - 1958, 1959
    Hallmark Traveling Exhibit - 1949
    Pepsi Cola Traveling Exhibit - 1945, 1946
    Washington Gallery of MA - 1962, 1966
    Des Moines Art Center - 1951
    Isaac Delgado Museum - 1951
    Federation of Modern Painters & Sculpturors - annually from 1947-67
    Audubon Artists - annually from 1949-67
    American Academy of Arts & Letters - 1950, 1955, 1958
    National Institute of Arts & Letters - 1967
    Riverside Museum - multiple since 1957
    Hallmark - National Tour - 1950-51
    American Federation of Arts - National tour 1958-60
    Hallmark - European tour - 1952
    Brazil - Contemporary Arts - 1956
    Puerto Rico - 1959
    Minneapolis Art Institute - 1946
  • More Information
    Documentation: Signed
    Origin: United States
    Period: 1950-1979
    Materials: Oil on canvas
    Condition: very good condition
    Creation Date: 1963
    Styles / Movements: Abstract Expressionism
    Incollect Reference #: 337485
  • Dimensions
    W. 38 in; H. 40 in;
    W. 96.52 cm; H. 101.6 cm;
Message from Seller:

Nahman Gallery specializes in 20th-century American and European paintings, sculpture, and decorative art, with a focus on the School of Paris and modernist works. We offer a curated selection of fine pieces in various price ranges, ensuring quality and value for every collector. Email: Thenahmangallery@gmail.com Phone: 201.736.2572

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