Ray Parker American, 1922-1990
Untitled, 1964
Oil on canvas
49 x 31 in.
124.5 x 78.7 cm.
124.5 x 78.7 cm.
Signed "Parker" lower right, signed and dated "Parker 1964" verso
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“[Parker's] use of color really added something to New York painting with its sharpness, clarity and power. His color comes out of Matisse, but he extends and intensifies it. He'll...
“[Parker's] use of color really added something to New York painting with its sharpness, clarity and power. His color comes out of Matisse, but he extends and intensifies it. He'll take a red and play it out into a pink in a way that comes out of Matisse's 'Jazz.' The aura of color in his late work is unrelenting.” – William C. Agee, historian of American art
This painting from 1964 is exemplary of Raymond Parker's signature works: outsized square canvases filled with large, colourful shapes on a neutral ground. Parker was a celebrated American painter and long-standing faculty member at New York’s Hunter College. Throughout the 1960s, his compositions developed a unique geometry of rough, almost organic forms that float together in playful harmony (much like jazz, which he enjoyed). Parker’s paintings of the 1960s are seemingly improvisational in their layering and clustering of forms with varied tones, relationships, and sizes. Over the course of his career, his works were shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States.
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