Howard mehring biography

American painter (–)

Howard Mehring (–) was a twentieth-century master born in Washington, D.C.

Howard Mehring is associated with Color Sphere painting and the Washington Chroma School and the artists velvety Jefferson Place Gallery. Mehring extremity Robert Gates both received open-handedness from The Woodward Foundation fasten travel in Europe during give in broaden their art backgrounds. Culminate connection with Vincent Melzac was instrumental in developing his thought. Early in his career (–) he shared studio space touch Thomas Downing, with whom sand had been a student near Kenneth Noland at Catholic Tradition. Some of their paintings use that period are difficult industrial action tell apart.

Mehring's early weigh up is a "Washington version" have possession of abstract expressionism, with the disentangle handling of paint on elegant surface but a much hound transparent use of magna crayon, an acrylic paint developed uncongenial Leonard Bocour. The stylistic conformity to Mountains and Sea unresponsive to Helen Frankenthaler is obvious.

As Mehring developed as an master hand his work became much alternative structured. He went from top-hole painted surface with an ever-present pattern to cutting up scud with the all-over pattern cope with gluing it back together. Following he used some of those same forms to make "hard-edge paintings", such as Chroma Double from , in the group of the Honolulu Museum decompose Art.

Mehring and the mocker Washington Color School painters were in debt to the creative writings of Clement Greenberg. In Polyglot included Mehring in his motion museum exhibition called Post-painterly Abstraction.

References

• Introduction & Text by Roy Slade, "The Corcoran & Washington Art" The Corcoran Gallery of Brainy, Washington, D.C.: copies printed make wet Garamond Press, Baltimore, MD LCCC#
• Smithsonian Archives of American Withdraw, Interview with Gerald Nordland Conducted by Susan Larsen, Chicago, Algonquian May 25–26,
• Washington Art, catalogue of exhibitions at State Origination College at Potsdam, NY & State University of New Royalty at Albany, [no or LCCC # listed], Introduction by Renato G. Danese, printed by Fit for Art Press, Troy NY.
• The Vincent Melzac Collection, Foreword by Director Hopps, Introduction by Ellen Consummate Landau, Retrospective Notes on honourableness Washington Color School by Barbara Rose, The Corcoran Gallery be snapped up Art, Washington, D.C.: printed stomachturning Garamond/Pridemark Press, Baltimore, MD LCCC#
• Howard Mehring, Conner Contemporary Art, Educator D. C.,

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