Frederick Hammersley
Subtitle: to paint without thinking
By: edited by James Glisson ; with contributions by Alan Phenix, Kathleen Shields, and Nancy Zastudil
Contributors: Glisson, James, editor; Phenix, Alan, author; Shields, Kathleen, 1955- author; Zastudil, Nancy, 1979- author; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery; New Mexico Museum of Art
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9780998681719
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Notebooks, sketchbooks; Exhibitions
Description: American painter Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009) is best known for his hard-edged geometric abstractions. However, their elegant simplicity belies the complex system behind their creation. Thanks to sketchbooks, notebooks and color swatches reproduced in this catalog, the artist's beautiful documentation of his multistep way of working out compositions is on full view. These artworks and archival materials show that rather than an all-at-once creative act, Hammersley's method was step-by-step and structured by rules. Essays by Alan Phenix, a conservation scientist, as well as by Kathleen Shields and Nancy Zastudil, who manage the artist's foundation, bring to light new scientific findings about his paintings.
Notes: "This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking, at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens from October 21, 2017-January 22, 2018; and the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe from May 26, 2018-September 9, 2018."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Director's foreword / Kevin Salatino; title: Curators' acknowledgments / James Glisson and Alan Phenix; title: Introduction / James Glisson; title: Frederick Hammersley / Kathleen Shields; title: For the record and straight from the horse's mouth / Alan Phenix; title: Working area / Nancy Zastudil; title: Not untitled / James Glisson; title: Lithography and experimentation / James Glisson.