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Untitled
1953
69 1/2 x 67 in. (176.53 x 170.18 cm)
Ernest Briggs (San Diego, California, 1923 - 1984, New York, New York)
A Culture of Spontaneity: San Francisco Abstract Expressionism From the Permanent Collection, November 8, 2008 - July 5, 2009, New Wing, Second Floor, North Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
A Culture of Spontaneity: San Francisco Abstract Expressionism From the Permanent Collection (2008 –2009)
Ernest Briggs moved to Greenwich Village in 1953, after which art historian Irving Sandler labeled him a second-generation artist of the New York School. This painting shows that he had already achieved the style for which he was best known. Briggs’s solo exhibition that year at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor featured several oils like this worked with a palette knife, suggesting dynamic forces at work and alluding to geological processes through patterns reminiscent of rocky veins and fissures. Reviewing this show, Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote: “It is as if . . . there were a great wind blowing through all his painting.”
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Untitled
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195369 1/2 x 67 in. (176.53 x 170.18 cm)
Ernest Briggs (San Diego, California, 1923 - 1984, New York, New York)
Object Type: Painting
Medium and Support: Oil on canvas
Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds contributed by Tom and Polly Bredt
Accession Number: 2007.11
Exhibition
A Culture of Spontaneity: San Francisco Abstract Expressionism From the Permanent Collection, November 8, 2008 - July 5, 2009, New Wing, Second Floor, North Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
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A Culture of Spontaneity: San Francisco Abstract Expressionism From the Permanent Collection (2008 –2009)
Ernest Briggs moved to Greenwich Village in 1953, after which art historian Irving Sandler labeled him a second-generation artist of the New York School. This painting shows that he had already achieved the style for which he was best known. Briggs’s solo exhibition that year at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor featured several oils like this worked with a palette knife, suggesting dynamic forces at work and alluding to geological processes through patterns reminiscent of rocky veins and fissures. Reviewing this show, Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote: “It is as if . . . there were a great wind blowing through all his painting.”
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions: - Culture of Spontaneity: SF Abstract Expressionism from the Permanent Collection San Jose Museum of Art , 11/8/2008 - 7/5/2009
Dimensions
- Image Dimensions: 69 1/2 x 67 in. (176.53 x 170.18 cm)
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