Alan Uglow
British, 1941-2011
Untitled (White Rectangle #2)
Oil on canvas
Signed, titled and dated 1978/79 to stretcher. Unframed, with Mary Boone Gallery label to verso.

Alan Uglow was born in 1941 in Luton, England, relocating from London to New York in 1969. In 1975, his work was included in the Whitney Biennial. After being approached by Mary Boone Gallery to participate in a group show in 1978, Uglow had his first one-person painting show with Boone, later that year 1978. After a second one-person painting show at Boone, in 1979, Uglow left Mary Boone Gallery. He subsequently joined Lorence-Monk Gallery, (1985?1991), and Stark Gallery (1993?2002). Beyond paintings, Uglow also made objects, sound-and-visual installations, photographs and prints. Uglow's work is in private and public collection internationally, including the Cincinnati Art Museum; Gemeentemuseum, the Hague; High Museum, Atlanta; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Mus?e des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland; Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany; Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany; National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany; Sammlung Lafrenz, Hamburg, Germany; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL.
85 x 73 in. (215.9 x 185.4 cm.)

Purchased by the current owner at the Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY, 1979

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