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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Guston, Philip Creator Dates/Places: American, 1913 - 1980 Creator Name-CRT: Philip Guston Title: Pink Summer View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1975 Creation End Date: 1975 Creation Date: 1975 Object Type: Paintings Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas Dimensions: Overall: 69 x 78 1/2 in. (175.26 x 199.39 cm.) AMICA Contributor: Dallas Museum of Art Owner Location: Dallas, Texas, USA ID Number: 1992.512 Credit Line: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the Estate of Musa Guston Rights: http://www.DallasMuseumofArt.org Context: John Wilcox, a native of Denison, Texas (b. 1954 Denison, Texas), has been drawing since childhood. He became interested in painting while attending St. Stephens (1969-73), an experimental boarding school near Austin. Although he received a B.A. degree from Colorado College (1977), John Wilcox is largely self-tutored as an artist. Early on, numerous geometric shapes inhabited his works, which sport titles with references to popular culture such as 'Atomic Thunderbird' and 'Accurate TV.' Titles such as 'Make Time, Kill Time,' 'Same,' and 'Don't Worry' seem to reflect an internalizatin of the 'pointillist' painting process he was using. After moving to New York in 1985, John Wilcox gradually abandoned imagery for abstraction. In 1987, he painted four large canvases representing the seasons. Within these canvases there remains only a suggestion of a shape; short black and white brushstrokes, alternately covering each other, evoke the grays of winter, while two converging lines hint at a structure. However, Wilcox's visual vocabulary became still more reduced when he sanded his 'pointillist' canvases into sensuous monochrome paintings. Although these paintings have their antecedents in the work of Ad Reinhardt, John Wilcox feels a more personal connection to the geometric abstractionist Myron Stout, who was born and raised in Denison. Wilcox credits the reductiveness of his paintings and their spiritual quality to his native Texas, to which he returned in 1990.'Third Prayer' is the third and last of a series entitled 'Prayer.' The first work consists of five white squares covered with a pencil grid (inspired by the work of Agnes Martin); the second is made up of two gray canvases; and the third, a black painting with the dimensions 70 x 30 in., is intended to evoke both a mirror and coffin. The painting is an attempt to see beyond death into the furture. The process of its creation, the process of alternately applying and sanding down more than 35 layers of black paint, in the pattern of an informal grid was itself a kind of search or medtitaion in which the viewer is called upon to participate. The mysterious sheen created by this meticulous and exacting process seems to impart the painting with a supernatural glow. AMICA ID: DMA_.1992.512 AMICA Library Year: 2003 Media Metadata Rights: AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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