Albert Mullen was born in 1921 in Ridgefield, New Jersey. He graduated from Cooper Union Art School in 1946 and took advanced work in the Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts in New York and with Fernand Léger in Paris in 1950-51 on the G.I. Bill of Rights. He taught at Goddard College, Columbia University, Brown University, Cooper Union, Yale Summer Art School, the Brooklyn Museum Art School and the University of Michigan (1956-). He is represented in numerous permanent collections, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Isaac Delgado Museum, the Library of Congress, Brown University, the Brooklyn Museum, and others.
Inscription
Numbered and signed in pencil, l.m.: 22/35 A Mullen Watermark: BFK RIVES
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Albert Mullen was born in 1921 in Ridgefield, New Jersey. He graduated from Cooper Union Art School in 1946 and took advanced work in the Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts in New York and with Fernand Léger in Paris in 1950-51 on the G.I. Bill of Rights. He taught at Goddard College, Columbia University, Brown University, Cooper Union, Yale Summer Art School, the Brooklyn Museum Art School and the University of Michigan (1956-). He is represented in numerous permanent collections, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Isaac Delgado Museum, the Library of Congress, Brown University, the Brooklyn Museum, and others.
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Numbered and signed in pencil, l.m.: 22/35 A Mullen Watermark: BFK RIVES
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Albert Mullen was born in 1921 in Ridgefield, New Jersey. He graduated from Cooper Union Art School in 1946 and took advanced work in the Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts in New York and with Fernand Léger in Paris in 1950-51 on the G.I. Bill of Rights. He taught at Goddard College, Columbia University, Brown University, Cooper Union, Yale Summer Art School, the Brooklyn Museum Art School and the University of Michigan (1956-). He is represented in numerous permanent collections, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Isaac Delgado Museum, the Library of Congress, Brown University, the Brooklyn Museum, and others.
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Numbered and signed in pencil, l.m.: 22/35 A Mullen Watermark: BFK RIVES
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If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please fax a request to the attention of Orian Neumann, Assistant Registrar, at 734-474-7643. For other queries, email orian@umich.edu.edu.
If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please fax a request to the attention of Orian Neumann, Assistant Registrar, at 734-474-7643. For other queries, email orian@umich.edu.edu.
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Born in Kaiserwerth, Germany, Hann Trier studied at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. During this time he became a friend of both Joseph Fassbender and Hans Hartung, important figures in Trier’s artistic development. After finishing his studies, he was drafted into the German military and did part of his service in Berlin as a technical draughtsman. Inspired by American Abstract Expressionism, he began to produce his first abstracted paintings in 1949. Trier was also an important teacher, counting Georg Baselitz and Elvira Bach among his students.
Study for Sewing Machine is one side of a double-sided work. Both conceived as studies, these works nonetheless give a good idea of the power of Trier’s abstracted works. Study for Sewing Machine shows not only the basic form of the machine but also a sense of its dynamic energy. The power of Trier’s lines expresses the movement and operation of the machine. Many of Trier’s strokes are almost calligraphic and express more than just the surface appearance of the object and its parts.
Sean M. Ulmer, University Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, for "A Matter of Degree: Abstraction in Twentieth-Century Art," November 10, 2001 - January 27, 2002
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Recto: Signed and dated in blue ink, l.r.: HT 51
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, l.r.: Kaf. 1/16.; inscribed in graphite, l.l.: 50x60
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Recto: inscribed in graphite, l.l.: C-4884; below, inscribed in blue ball-point pen: 249
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, l.l.: $ 400; inscribed in blue ball-point pen, l.l.: Work of my late hausband David Park c. 1955-59/Lydia Park Moore/8-29-66
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Feng Chaoran was one of the leading practitioners and teachers of classical paintings styles in Shanghai in the first half of the twentiety century. His pupils include his nephew and adopted heir, Zhang Gunian (Chang Ku-nien, also represented in UMMA's collections) and Lu Yanshao (1909–1993), among others.
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Feng Chaoran was one of the leading practitioners and teachers of classical paintings styles in Shanghai in the first half of the twentiety century. His pupils include his nephew and adopted heir, Zhang Gunian (Chang Ku-nien, also represented in UMMA's collections) and Lu Yanshao (1909–1993), among others.
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A native of Shanghai, Zhang Gunian (Chang Ku-nien) first studied painting at the age of nine under the tutelage of his uncle. His work clearly embraces the free brushwork that flourished in Shanghai painting circles in the early part of the twentieth century. After his move to Taiwan, he frequently did scenes that reflected the accomplishments of the Nationalist Government in creating a modern China. He organized a group of like-minded colleagues as the "Seven Friends of Painting and Calligraphy," and together they often did collaborative works. His paintings and calligraphy were much admired in Taiwan and Japan in the second half of the twentieth century, although less known in the West. A major donation to UMMA of nearly forty paintings by Zhang Gunian, given by his son and daughter, will allow for serious study of this artist's work in North America.
A rock dominates the image, with orchids and grasses growing next to it. Calligraphic text accompanies the image, places above the rock, with three seals.
Subject Matter
Creating cooperative works with peer artists has been a fashion closely connected to the literati’s painting concept and practice. As modes of personal expressions, according to literati theory, paintings are created for private occasions and are shared and appreciated among circles of friends. The cooperative work celebrates respectful mutual relationships and reinforce affections among the painters participated.
Chang collaborated with two friends from the Seven Friends Painting Club, Liu Yantao and Gao Yihong. Naturally, in a cooperative work, each artist often takes on a subject best representing his/her talents. Appealing to scholar-artist, the elegance and subtle fragrance of orchids have long been regarded as the emblem of righteous gentlemen, thus a suitable subject for scholars alike.
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