FREDERICK HAMMERSLEY

Oct 21, 2017 - Jan 22, 2018

Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art, Susan and Stephen Chandler Wing

Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking

Frederick Hammersley (1919–2009), See saw, #3, 1966, oil on linen, 44 x 44 in. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, anonymous gift in memory of Robert Shapazian. © Frederick Hammersley Foundation

Frederick Hammersley (1919–2009), See saw, #3, 1966, oil on linen, 44 x 44 in. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, anonymous gift in memory of Robert Shapazian. © Frederick Hammersley Foundation

This exhibition on American abstract artist Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009) showcases his sketchbooks, notebooks, inventories, and vibrant color swatches to illuminate the painstaking process the artist used to create his hard-edge geometric paintings. It features about 50 objects, pairing items from Hammersley’s archives (a recent gift to the Getty Research Institute) with five paintings, including The Huntington’s See saw (1966), and dozens of other works, including lithographs, silkscreens, and works of digital art from the collections of The Huntington, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, Palm Springs Art Museum, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art. To accompany the exhibition, The Huntington is publishing a fully illustrated catalog with several scholarly essays revealing new research on the topic.

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