Abstract painting by Walter Darby Bannard 1969.20 inches x 30 inches.(for further provenance information see the condition report below).////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(From Wiki):"Walter Darby Bannard was born in New Haven, Connecticut and attended Phillips Exeter Academy (class of 1952)[1] and Princeton University, where he struck up a friendship and working relationship with Frank Stella, who was also interested in minimalist abstraction. He was associated with Modernism, Lyrical Abstraction, Minimalism, Formalism (art), Post-painterly Abstraction and Color Field painting.Bannard was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968.Bannard had close to a hundred solo exhibitions, was included in several hundred group shows, and is represented in the collections of all the major New York museums and many others around the world. He was a prolific writer on art with over a hundred published essays and reviews; Bannard has taught, lectured and participated in panel discussions, and has been a Co-chair of the International Exhibitions Committee of the National Endowment for the Arts.Bannard was Professor and Head of Painting of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Miami. Bannard died in Miami, Florida on October 2, 2016 at the age of 82.[2]WorkArtBannard's paintings from 1959 to 1965 contained few forms, as little as a single band painted around a field of color, and then developed into somewhat more complex geometric forms by the mid-1960s. The critic Phyllis Tuchman wrote about these works, "These colors are still radiant. And the artist’s pale palette is as uniquely personal today as it was fifty years ago. You can’t even apply a name to his hues."[3]In the late 1960s the forms dissolved into pale, atmospheric fields of color applied with rollers and paint-soaked rags. He began using the new acrylic mediums in 1970 and his paintings evolved into colorful expanses of richly colored gels and polymers applied with squeegees and commercial floor brooms.[4]WritingBannard's numerous essays appeared in Artforum, Art in America, and many other publications, including museum catalogs. He curated and wrote the catalog for the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of the paintings of Hans Hofmann, at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Bannard's writings are collected at the Walter Darby Bannard Archive.[5]Selected solo exhibitionsTibor de Nagy Gallery, New York 1965-1970Kasmin Gallery, London 1965, 1968, 1970, 1972Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago 1965Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, 1967Bennington College 1969David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto 1969, 1970, 1975, 1978Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York 1970, 1972, 1973Joseph Helman Gallery, St. Louis 1970Neuendorf Gallery, Cologne, Germany 1971Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, 1972Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA, 1973Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York 1974-1984Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH 1977Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis 1977Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 1979Ulrich Art Museum, Wichita State University 1980Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC 1983Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 1983Salander-O'Reilly Gallery, New York, 1986Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University 1987Richard Love Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1988Greenberg Wilson Gallery, New York 1989, 1990Knoedler Gallery, London, England, 1991Farah Damji Gallery, New York City, New York, 1993Dorsch Gallery, Miami Florida, 1996Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2006Jacobson/Howard Gallery, New York, 2007Walter Darby Bannard: Dragon Water, Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, 2014Walter Darby Bannard: Recent Paintings, Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, 2016Painting After Postmodernism | Belgium - USA, curated by Barbara Rose, and organised by Roberto Polo Gallery in collaboration with the city of Brussels, 2016Walter Darby Bannard: 1959-1962, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, 2018Walter Darby Bannard: Paintings From 1969 to 1975, Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, 2018Selected group exhibitions1964"Post Painterly Abstraction" (Los Angeles County Museum, Walker Art Center, and Toronto Art Museum)1965"The Responsive Eye" (Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., and tour of U.S. Museums) 1965Chicago Art MuseumUniversity of Pennsylvania1966"American Painters" Smithsonian InstitutionMuseum of Modern Art Embassies Program1967Whitney Museum Annual, New York"Color, Image and Form," Detroit Institute of Arts1968"Art of the Real," Museum of Modern Art and tour of European and American museums1969Corcoran Biannual, Washington, D.C."The Development of Modernist Painting: Jackson Pollock to the Present," Washington University Gallery of Art, St. LouisWhitney Museum Annual, N.Y."One Tendency of Contemporary Art," Kunstmarkt, Cologne1970Venice Biennale, “American Artists”"Two Generations of Color Painting," University of Pennsylvania"Color and Field, 1890 - 1970," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Dayton Art Institute, and Cleveland Museum of Art"The Form of Color," Toledo Museum of Art1971"The Structure of Color," Whitney MuseumFogg Art Museum"Six Painters," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Milwaukee Art Center"Toward Color and Field," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas1972Whitney Museum Annual, N.Y."Abstract Painting in the '70s," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston"Painting and Sculpture Today - 1972," Indianapolis Museum of Art"Masters of the Sixties," Edmonton Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery"Acquisitions," Museum of Modern Art, N.Y."Bannard, Goodnough, Noland, Olitski, Poons, Stella," Galerie and Edition Merian, Krefeld, Germany"American Art," Cornell University, 1972"9 American Painters," Dayton Art Institute, Ohio1973"Curator's Choice," New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Morris Museum, Morristown, N.J."11 American Artists," Musee D'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada"The Michener Collection, American Paintings of the 20th Century," U. of Texas, Austin1974"The Great Decade of American Abstraction: Modernist Art 1960 to 1970," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas"Contemporary American Artists," the Cleveland Museum of Art"Continuing Abstraction in American Art," Whitney Museum1975"American Art Since 1945, from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art," travelling to various U.S. Museums1976Gallerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria, February"Cronaca," Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy, March1977"Private Images: Photographs by Painters," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January1978"Painting and Sculpture Today 1978," Indianapolis Museum of Art, June"15 Sculptors in Steel Around Bennington 1963 - 1978," Park-McCullough House, Bennington, VT, August - October1979"Art in America After World War II" Guggenheim Museum, January - FebruaryKnoedler Galleries1981International Communications Agency, Washington, D.C.Sheldon Memorial Gallery, Kansas City MO,1982"Recent Trends in Collecting: 20th Century Painting from the National Museum of Art", National Collection of American Art, Washington DC1983"National Midyear Exhibition," Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio,"Twentieth Century Art from the Metropolitan Museum: Selected Recent Acquisitions," The Queens Museum, Flushing, NY1984"Directions in Contemporary American Ceramics," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston1986"Definitive Statements - American Art: 1964 - 1966," List Art Center, Brown University1990"Free Market," Galerie 1900/2000, Paris, France,"The Moffett Collection," Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Fall1992"Stars in Florida," Fort Lauderdale Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, FL"Abstractions and Monochromes", Galeria de Poche, Paris, France1993"The Denver Art Museum, 1883-1993", Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado1995Award of Merit, Hortt 37 Juried Exhibition, Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art1996Award of Merit, Hortt 38 Juried Exhibition, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art1997“Masters of the Masters” Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown. Ohio,1998Masters of the Masters” Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio1999“The Rowan Collection: Passion and Patronage - Painting in Los Angeles and New York”, Mills College Art Museum, Mills College, Oakland, Cal.2001"Clement Greenberg: A Critics Collection", Portland Art Museum, Portland Oregon2004"Color field Revisited: Paintings from the Albright Knox Art Gallery". Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University , Milwaukee Wisc"Minimalist Painting", installation, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., Fall2005"Modernism and Abstraction" Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA:"Hans Hofmann: The Legacy", The Painting Center, New York2006"Meaning and Metaphor", Syracuse University Art Gallery2007"Born in the USA" National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 2007"Color as Field", Denver Art Museum, 20072008"Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art", Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill"Color into Light", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston2009"Circa 1959: Transitions in the Work of Nine Abstract Painters", Jacobson-Howard Gallery, New YorkMcNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, "Art Since 1945: In a New Light"2010"Darby Bannard and the Miami School", Center for Visual Communication, Miami FL, Oct. 9 2010 - Jan 22, 2011"Abstract USA '58 - '68", Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sept 11, 2010 - Feb 20, 2011 (YELLOW ROSE 1959, THE HOURS 1958)2011MONO, POLY, CONCRETE, Galerie Konzette, Vienna, Austria, October 23 -November 21, 2011NATURE AND THE NON-OBJECTIVE REALM, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, Visginia, March 10, 2011 – November 27, 2011COLOR FIELD REVISED, Loretta Howard Gallery, NYC, Jume 4 – August 5 20112012List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge MA, “Selections from the Collection”Daum Museum. Sedalia Missouri, “The First Decade”Loretta Howard Gallery NYC, “January White Sale”Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CAlart Los Angeles Contemporary”,2013"20 Shades of Grey", Zadok Gallery, Miami, Florida, May 11 - July 26, 2013. FIREWALKER 2011, SOCKO 2012"Paintings and Prints by Contemporary Notables", Watson Macrae Gallery, Sanibel, Florida, Dec 10, 2013 -Selected public collectionsAlbright-Knox Art GalleryAllen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OhioBaltimore MuseumBeaubourg, ParisBlanton Museum of Art, The University at Texas, AustinBoston Museum of Fine ArtsBrooklyn MuseumCleveland MuseumDallas Museum of Fine ArtDayton Art InstituteEdmonton Art GalleryFogg Art MuseumGuggenheim MuseumHonolulu MuseumHouston Museum of Fine ArtsIndianapolis Museum of ArtKenyon College Art GalleryLarry Aldrich MuseumLowe Art MuseumMarion Koogler McNay Art InstituteMetropolitan Museum of ArtThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TexasMontclair Art MuseumMuseum of Modern ArtNational Gallery of Victoria, AustraliaNational Museum of American ArtNew Jersey State MuseumNewark MuseumOberlin CollegePortland (Oregon) Art MuseumPrinceton UniversityRose Art MuseumSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC;Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New YorkStorm King Art CenterToledo MuseumUniversity of TexasWhitney MuseumWilliams College Art Museum

In good overall condition, with labels on the reverse from Doyle auction house, and the Salander-O'Reilly Gallery stating that the title is Mandragora # 3 and the measurements are 20" x 30".