Lynn Leland - Paintings from the 1960s

LYNN LELAND

PAINTINGS FROM THE 1960s

Lynn Leland Paintings from the 1960s

FRANCIS FROST

Lynn Leland, A. M. Sachs Gallery, New York, 1965

Lynn Leland born 1937, Buffalo, NY Studied Pratt Institute, NY, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg (Fulbright Scholarship) Exhibited Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY, 1960 Brooklyn Museum Biennial, NY, 1960 The Preston Gallery, New York, 1963 A. M. Sachs Gallery, New York, 1965-66 “The Responsive Eye”, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1965 “Optics & Kinetics”, Ohio University, 1965-66 “Multiplicity”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1966 The Jewish Museum, NY, Works from the Harry Abrams Collection, 1966

‘[Leland] had a show in 1962 of small paintings that were geometric simplifications of the human body, usually truncated. The color and surface, like both in this show, were opulent. The earlier paintings were thorough and these are too, and are more unusual. Each painting is a field of many small circles. If anything is optical these are, but Leland is supposed to not think them so. "They are symmetrical, thus static in two dimensions, but are dynamic in space due to one's perception."’

Donald Judd Art International, September 1965 review of circle paintings at A. M. Sachs Gallery, New York

“Hagal”. Oil on canvas, 1961, 24 x 20 inches

“Tanny”. Oil on canvas, 1961, 24 x 18 inches

“Monday Winner”. Oil on canvas, circa 1962, 16 x 12 inches

“Free Trial”. Oil on canvas, 1962, 15 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches

“Teddymate”. Oil on canvas, 1962, 24 x 24 inches

“Speedy Driver”. Oil on canvas, 1962, 24 x 24 inches

“Thirteen Times Ten”. Acrylic on masonite, 1963, 10 x 13 inches

“Blue & Red Thirty”. Acrylic on masonite, 1963, 12 x 10 inches

Untitled/Circles. Nine acrylics on canvas, 1963, 12 x 12 inches each

“For President Kennedy”. Acrylic on canvas, 1964, 47 x 47 inches

“For Gustav Mahler”. Acrylic on canvas, 1964, 33 x 33 inches

“For Karlheinz Stockhausen”. Acrylic on canvas, 1964, 33 x 33 inches

“Large Circle Series: Blue Ground [A]”. Acrylic on canvas, c.1966, 25 x 25 inches

“Large Circle Series: Red Ground”. Acrylic on canvas, c.1966, 25 x 25 inches

“Large Circle Series: Green Ground”. Acrylic on canvas, c.1966, 25 x 25 inches

“Large Circle Series: Blue Ground [B]”. Acrylic on canvas, c.1966, 25 x 25 inches

“Rotary Left and Right”. Two acrylics on canvas, 1966, 45 x 45 inches each

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