Stephen Pace, New York (1918 - 2010)
Stephen S. Pace was active/lived in New York, Maine, Missouri / Mexico. Stephen Pace is known for abstract expression and figurative painting.
Untitled
Signed lower right
Oil on Board
Painting Size: 18 x 24 in.
Frame Size: 25 x 29 1/2 in.
Created in 1959
Biography from the Archives of askART
Stephen Pace was born on December 12, 1918 in Deventer, a small town in southeast Missouri near the Mississippi River. When Pace was six, his parents moved to Indiana where they ran a small grocery store. Ten years later they moved to a farm near New Harmony, Indiana.
But Pace's destiny was in New York. He returned and was drawn into the heady atmosphere of New York in the late forties and early fifties, the orbit of Abstract Expressionism, and the Hofmann School. Hans Hofmann's precepts crop up repeatedly in Pace's work. The importance of the space outside the rectangle, the need for drawing from life because "painting has to come from somewhere," the dynamic of the push and pull, the structuring with color and the spatial tensions set up between the jostling areas of bright primary colors.
During the 1950s Pace was immersed in the world of the New York School, showing at most of the Whitney annuals and at the artist-run invitations at the Stable Galley. He frequented local artist's taverns and became good friends with leading Abstract Expressionist Franz Kline. Pace and other younger abstract expressionists, most of whom were World War II veterans, knew little about the Surrealist phase of Abstract Expressionism with its emphasis on the search for myth and veiling the subjects.
Source:
Karlie Corporation
CONDITION
Excellent
PROVENANCE
Private Collection from New York
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