Knox Martin

Knox Martin

Knox Martin (born February 12, 1923 in Barranquilla , Colombia ) is an American sculptor and painter .

Life

Knox Martin was born in Colombia as the eldest son of military and test pilots William Knox Martin and Isabelle Vieko. His father was an artist, poet and pioneer in being the first to venture over the Andes . In 1927 he was killed in a car accident in Watertown, near New York. His widow and three sons moved from Salem , Virginia to New York after his death .

After serving as a soldier in World War II , Knox Martin studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1946 to 1950 . There Harry Sternberg, Vaclav Vytlacil, Will Barnet, and Morris Kantor were among his fellow students. In 1954, Knox Martin's friend Franz Kline brought a painting of his to the Stable Gallery. Gallery owner Charles Egan saw it there and asked Martin if he would like to show his work in a show for the tenth anniversary of the Egan Gallery.

Martin lives and works in New York and is assigned to Abstract Expressionism . He is primarily a muralist in the style and content of muralism . His work can be seen on the walls of buildings in New York. Paintings and sculptures by him can be found in the Whitney Museum of American Art , the Brooklyn Museum , the Portland Art Museum , the Baltimore Museum of Art , the Denver Art Museum , the Museum of Art Oklahoma City , the Berkeley Art Museum .

Knox Martin is a Master of Arts at the Art Students League in New York and was Professor at Yale University in 2002 . He has also taught at New York University , the University of Minnesota and the International School of Art in Umbria . In 2002 Knox Martin was inducted into the National Academy of Design . Martin won an award from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation .

In the fall of 2010, Knox Martin designed a solo exhibition of his black and white paintings in New York City.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ William Knox Martin earlyaviators.com
2. ↑ Knox Martin . Janosgatgallery.com. September 12, 2003. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 18, 2012. 
3. ↑ Harry Sternberg-IFPDA ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ The Art Students League: About Vaclav Vytlacil ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ France Honors Will Barnet with the Order of Arts and Letters ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Lawrence Fine Art: Morris Kantor ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ `` New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, '' . Worldcatlibraries.org. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
8. ^ About Art and Artists; Knox Martin Impresses in First One-Man Show . In: The New York Times , September 16, 1954. Retrieved April 28, 2010. 
9. ^ National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts . Nationalacademy.org. Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 18, 2012. 
10. ^ Robert Shuster: Knox Martin at Woodward Gallery, Best in Show by Robert Shuster, Village Voice, October 20, 2010 . Villagevoice.com. October 20, 2010. Retrieved April 18, 2012.

literature

• Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6
• Irving Sandler, From Avant-Garde to Pluralism: An On-The-Spot History, (Hard Press Editions, 2006.) ISBN 1889097683

Web links

• Knox Martin website
• artnet.com
• artslant.com
• The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
• Smithsonian Archives of American Art