Paul Jenkins
(American, 1923–2012)
Biography
Paul Jenkins was an American abstract artist and member of the New York School. Jenkins’s innovative practice was characterized by his choice to avoid the paintbrush altogether, instead allowing pigment to pool, bloom, or roll across the surface of his canvases, guiding the paint with a knife to create fluid fields of color, as seen his work Phenomena Anderson (1972). “With the smooth organic surface of the ivory, I could use great pressure against the sensitive tooth of the canvas,” the artist said of his process. Born William Paul Jenkins on July 12, 1923 in Kansas City, MO, Jenkins worked at a ceramics factory in his youth, an experience that heavily influenced his tactile methods of painting. He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Students League in New York with Yasuo Kuniyoshi. A close friend of Mark Rothko, Jenkins remained tied to the city even during his move to Paris during the 1950s. The painter died on June 9, 2012 in New York, NY at the age of 88. Today, his works are included in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others.
Paul Jenkins Artworks
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Paul Jenkins
Senza titolo (fine anni Settanta, primi , 1975–1985
Sale Date: October 24, 2017
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Paul Jenkins
Cyril Hodges, Seeing Voice Welsh Heart,..., 1965
Sale Date: October 21, 2017
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Paul Jenkins
YORK SUMMER SOLSTICE; CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, 1981, 1981
Sale Date: September 21, 2017
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