Vija Celmins creates photorealistic drawings and paintings of the natural world. Her detailed, meditative images of subjects such as ocean waves or stars in the sky are often rendered in gray, black, and white.
Celmins earned her master’s degree in art from the University of California, Los
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles) [fig3] and the Standard Bearer (Allentown Art Museum
Painted in 1960, at the height of Milton Avery’s career, Mountain and Meadow is one of the artist’s finest late works. The initial inspiration to depict this scene occurred in the summer of 1955, when Avery and his family stayed at the Yaddo artists’ colony near Saratoga Springs, New York.
, West Palm Beach; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los
Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los
Bellevue, Washington; The Bronx Museum of the Arts; California Afro-American Museum, Los
Chicago, 04/14/1977–08/15/1977 New Orleans Museum of Art, 09/15/1977–01/15/1978 Los
Jackson Pollock’s mythic reputation rests largely on the artistic breakthrough of his large paintings made from 1947 to 1951, as well as on his dramatic life and death.
Pollock began his art training in Los Angeles at the Manual Arts High School, from
One of the leading artists of the post–Johns/Rauschenberg generation, Terry Winters wields his brush with a knowledge and conviction that make periodic talk of the death of painting seem empty. Bitumen , 1986, is a work from the first decade of his career—when Winters was exploring such basic natural processes as crystal formation, fungal growth, and (as in this canvas) cellular division, and when he was equally immersed in the natural history of painting itself.
Washington, D.C., 1987. 1991 Terry Winters, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
entry on page 17 of Commission Book 4, Knoedler Records, Getty Research Institute, Los
