JENKINS, PAUL (1923-2012)

"Paul Jenkins: Galerie Karl Flinker" (1973)
exhibition lithograph
106 x 71cm (unframed)
unsigned
*private collection, Sydney
 
Jenkins is a famous American Abstract Painter & Printmaker, and Andy Warhol collaborator & muse. As a child, Jenkins met Frank Lloyd Wright and Thomas Hart Benton, who inspired him to pursue a career as an artist. After serving in the American Navy during WW2, he studied at the Art Students League of New York with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor. During that time, he met Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and  Barnett Newman.His first solo exhibition in NYC was held in 1956 at the Martha Jackson Gallery, a leading gallery of the time. The Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC purchased the painting "Divining Rod" from this exhibition. In the '50s, Jenkins achieved prominence both in New York and Europe for his early abstractions. In 1959, Peggy Guggenheim purchased "Osage," a work on canvas, and continued to later purchase the artist's work.Throughout the 60s, his work was shown worldwide, at major galleries and museums in Tokyo, London, New York, Paris, Amsterdam and elsewhere, and he befriended the legendary Andy Warhol, who painted his portrait. In 1971-1972 a retrospective of works on canvas took place at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Art. The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. held an exhibition of his watercolors which traveled across the US for two years. His works are represented in the world's biggest Modern Art galleries, including MOMA, Whitney Museum Of Art, Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum, The Guggenheim & the Smithsonian.