Jack Youngerman, Untitled Spectrum 356, 2015

Jack Youngerman - Untitled Spectrum 356

Dazzling unique watercolor painting on Dieu Donne handmade paper with one deckled edge
Pencil signed and dated on the front
Provenance: The artist and Washburn Gallery for the benefit of Longhouse Reserve
Acquired from Longhouse Reserve
This work is elegantly framed in a museum quality wood frame under UV plexiglass with a die-cut window in the back to reveal additional writing:
verso has the artist's name, title inventory number, date and medium in graphite
Measurements:
Frame:
20.5 x 19.25 x 2 inches
Artwork:
16.5 x 15 inches

Jack Youngerman Biography
American artist Jack Youngerman, whose six-decade output ranged from Constructivist-inflected geometries and shaped canvases to elliptically organic forms, died on Wednesday in Stony Brook, New York, reports the New York Times. He was ninety-three years old.

Youngerman was born in Missouri in 1926, and studied at the University of Missouri for a year before being drafted to the Navy in 1944. After being discharged, he completed his studies in journalism in 1947, then enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris on the GI Bill. He remained in France until 1956, when he returned to New York with the encouragement of gallerist Betty Parsons. He held his first New York exhibition in 1958. The next year, he was included alongside Frank Stella, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ellsworth Kelly in the pivotal exhibition “Sixteen Americans” at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1966, his works appeared with that of Jo Baer, Agnes Martin, and Kenneth Noland in the group exhibition “Systemic Painting” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, curated by Lawrence Alloway. A series of solo exhibitions at Betty Parsons, Pace, and Washburn Gallery followed, then a 1986 retrospective at the Guggenheim.