Pousette-Dart, Richard
Pousette-Dart, Richard,
1916–92, American painter, b. St. Paul, Minn. The son of an artist and a poet and largely self-taught, he was a member of the first generation of abstract expressionismabstract expressionism,movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action painting and the New York school.
..... Click the link for more information. . He lived (1937–51) in New York City, where he was one of the younger members of the so-called New York School, then moved upstate and thereafter maintained a distance from city's art world. Beginning in the early 1940s, his boldly colored abstract paintings, heavily layered and densely encrusted, were filled with iconic symbols, and many have a transcendent air. His paintings of the 1960s and 70s were generally all-over fields of shimmering color dotted with luminous, tactile orbs, dots, and jots. Pousette-Dart was also a talented draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and photographer.
Bibliography
See studies by J. Gordon (1963), R. C. Hobbs and J. M. Knebler, ed. (1991), L. S. Sims (1997), and R. Mattison et al. (2006).