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"Nell Blaine, artist in the world: works from the 1950s" at Tibor de Nagy Gallery. March 22, 2003-April 26, 2003. (Exhibition notes).
Nell Blaine (1922-1996) can tell a story through a remarkable economy of language. Her best work is lyrical, self-aware, in control, and inviting without the hints of self-indulgence that befell many in the New York School.
A native of Richmond, Virginia, Blaine began her career in New York as an abstract painter and the precocious student of Hans Hofmann. In 1944, at the age of twenty-one, she became the youngest member of the American Abstract Artists Group; her Mondrian-inspired, purely abstract paintings from the period remain well known and collected. She formed fast friendships with many artists on the scene, in particular those who were associated with the figurative, second generation of the New York School--Leland Bell, Robert De Niro, Albert Kresch, and Louisa Matthiasdottir (whose work was also exhibited in New York in April, at Salander-O'Reilly Galleries). Blaine was everywhere, even teaching painting to a young Larry Rivers, with whom she lived in France in 1950. A visit to the painter Jean Helion in Paris that same year proved to be fateful to her artistic development, and she attributed her travels in France to inspiring a reawakening of paintings possibilities.
It was through Blaine's return to representation and the figure, as seen through the eyes of an artist trained in abstraction, that she arrived at a new personal style in the 1950S. The latest exhibition at Tibor de Nagy followed Blaine from the rigid structures of Leger-type cubism in 1950 to a rapid loosening of line and color that, in its balance of freedom and control, approached a high style around 1959, the year she contracted a crippling case of polio while on tour in Greece; the ...
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