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oil paint canvas
Currently on view at Mint Museum--UPTOWN
Museum Purchase in honor of Phil Kline: Funds provided by Welborn E. Alexander, David M. Carroll, Alfred Brand, James J. Hardy, Henry C. Landon, Janet LeClair, Earlene J. Stacks, William H. Williamson, David L. Conlan, Thomas M. Young, Alan T. Dickson, Jay Everette, Jo Ann Peer, Mary Lou Babb, Jon Simon, John S. Arrowood, J.M. Gaither, A. Zachary Smith, Patti Tracey, Keva Walton, Beverly S. Hance, Kellie D. Scott, William C. Grubb, Thomas E. Norman, Sandi O. Thorman, Robert G. Wilhelm, Richard T. "Stick" Williams, Pamela L. Davies, William H. Fuller, Susan C. McKeithen, Pat and B.D. Rodgers and exchange funds from the gifts of various donors
Born in 1928 and raised in Newport News, Virginia, Lynn Drexler moved to New York in 1956 to pursue a career as an artist. She learned the basic principles of modern art from two of twentieth century’s leading painters: Hans Hoffman and Robert Motherwell, both of whom were impressed by her early efforts. Hoffman’s ideas about the visual sensation of the push and pull of different colors and shapes, as well as his use of large areas of pure color, were particularly important to her as she sought her own unique style and artistic vocabulary. "Untitled" brings together many of the ideas that Drexler was processing during the formative years of her career. The entire composition is created out of patches of intense color. The energy of the natural world is suggested by not only the vibrancy of these colors but also by the wide variety of graphic marks that Drexler employed, which range from squares and rectangles to thick lines and small dots. "Untitled" was completed after the artist’s first summer on Monhegan Island, a remote island ten miles off the coast of Maine that had long been a favorite destination for artists due to its combination of hushed woodlands and crashing surf.
Accession Number: 2010.74
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