10ft x 5ft Lyrical Abstract Expressionism Painting 1977 John Adams Griefen 

10ft x 5ft Lyrical Abstract Expressionism Painting 1977 John Adams Griefen Golo's Crime1977 Excellent conditionWalnut band frame with silver foil faceStretcher solid and canvas without issue An important work by an artist whose paintings Clement Greenberg described as "Phenomenally minimal, aesthetically maximal". The photos will show the work is primarily tonal and textural with soft fluid shapes. From Lyrical Abstraction:"Reflections Of Monet has alongside an 1880's Monet landscape examples from the museum's permanent collection that reflect Monet's lasting influence on important contemporary painting. Included are works by Jackson Pollock, Hans Hofmann, Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Richard Pousette-Dart, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Ellsworth Kelly, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Joan Snyder, Fairfield Porter, and others. Frankly I wish there were more inclusions by living artists like Milton Resnick, John Griefen, William Pettet, Dan Christensen, and Ronald Davis' Music Series and I'd like to see the museum do an in depth expansion of this exhibition" John Adams Griefen has been a painter all his life. He studied painting at Bennington College, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Hunter College, and he received his BA in art history at Williams College. Griefen lived and worked in New York City for more than 40 years. He was a friend of the critic Clement Greenberg, an influential friendship that lasted until Greenberg’s death in 1994. Greenberg was a frequent visitor in his TriBeCa studio over the years. In 1969, he had his first one-man exhibition at the Kornblee Gallery and in 1970 he was one of twenty-eight artists represented in the Lyrical Abstraction show, a definitive collection exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He was represented by the Deitcher/O’Reilly Gallery, William Edward O’Reilly, Inc., and Salander/O’Reilly Galleries. Griefen had sixteen solo shows of his work in New York; twenty national and international shows in Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, Beverly Hills; Edmonton, Canada; Sydney, Australia; Monpazier, Cause de Clérans, France; and Berlin. He was in sixty-three group exhibitions in the United States, from New York to Miami, from Washington, D.C., to Santa Barbara and Houston; and eleven international group shows including Lisbon, Paris, Antibes, Berlin, Düsseldorf and Sydney. In 1981, the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired a painting. Other acquisitions followed by the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; Boston Museum of Fine Art; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa.; JPMorgan Chase Bank, New York; Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada; National Gallery of Victoria and the Sydney Museum in Australia; and forty-two other museums, galleries, corporations, universities and libraries. Griefen’s book, VOIR DIRE MALSTROM, is owned by Harvard University, the New York Public Library, New York University, and Dartmouth College.Will ship by freight or can be picked up from 94941.