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Nicholas Krushenick signed silkscreen lithograph

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40 X 30 inches pencil signed small tear in edge. NICHOLAS KRUSHENICK

Abstract Expressionism. avant-garde

Signed hard edged geometric Abstract Silkscreen
Nicholas Krushenick (1929 - 1999) Nicholas Krushenick was born in 1929 in New York City. Following World War II army service, he studied at the Art Students League from 1948-1950 and the Hans Hofmann Art School in 1950-1951.

Krushenick went from Cubism to Abstract-Expressionism, dropping the use of oil paints around 1960 for acrylics, and arriving at a style emphasizing fluorescent colors and black outlines of hard-edged, geometric shapes. While Krushenick was a contemporary of the Pop art, and his work has the look of their simplistic, mass-media forms, no recognizable objects are depicted.


NICHOLAS KRUSHENICK (1929 -1999) One of America's premier Pop artists began his career exhibiting art in uptown galleries such as Pace, and by the early sixties, had become a leading artist of the Pop Art movement. At this time he began to experiment in the graphic media of both lithography and silkscreen and produced many famous works in these fields, such as, James Bond Meets Pussy Galore (1965). His art began to center upon simple abstract motifs whose shapes were outlined in heavy black lines. Although compared to Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, unlike these masters Krushenick avoided any imagery from commercial art and focused more on "Abstract Pop."

Clement Greenberg probably came closest when he classified Krushenick amongst the "Post-Painterly Abstractionist Painters." One of the original group of POP Artists.
Krushenick's work is in the permanent collections of such museums as the Museum of Modern Art, MOMA, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Chrysler Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth TX), Fisher Gallery (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), the Denver Art Museum, Lowe Art Museum (University Of Miami), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum (The University of Minnesota), the Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma WA), the University of Illinois Art Museum, the Museum of Art & Archaeology (University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia MO), The Empire State Collection (Empire State Building, NY NY), Brigham Young University Museum (Provo UT), The Michael C Carlos Museum (Emory University, Atlanta GA), Wright Museum of Art (Beloit College). European Collections include the Folkwang Museum, Essen and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hirshhorn Museum at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York City


Selected Bibliography: Galerie Beyeler, Nicholas Krushenick (Basel: Galerie Beyeler, 1971); Nicholas Krushenick, Nicholas Krushenick (Hannover: Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1972); Nicholas Krushenick, Krushenick: April 26 - May 21, 1969 (NY : Pace 1969); Robert Rosenblum, Krushenick (Paris: Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, 1966); Robert Rosenblum, Krushenick (Paris: Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, 1967); Dean Swanson, Nicholas Krushenick (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1968).

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