Collection Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Kriesberg, Irving (American, 1919-2009) |
Title |
Signal Dance |
Date |
1997 |
Medium |
Oil Paint |
Material |
Canvas |
Technique |
Oil on canvas |
Height (in) |
64.000 |
Width (in) |
68.000 |
Credit line |
Gift of an anonymous donor |
Notes |
During a career that spanned almost 70 years, Irving Kriesberg gave voice to a wide range of cultural and aesthetic practices. His unique brand of figurative expressionism blended the lessons of the European avant garde with the experience of living and studying abroad in Mexico, India, and Japan. He combined spiritual themes with contemporary messages and produced haunting images of human and animal forms. Irving Kriesberg was born in Chicago in 1919. He received a BFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA from New York University. His work was featured in the ground-breaking exhibition "15 Americans," which was held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1952, and included work by Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Kriesberg has exhibited his work widely since then, including showings at the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University, and Washington University. His work is in leading institutions nationwide, among them the Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. He was the recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships and taught variously at Columbia, Yale, and the Pratt Institute. |
Object ID |
2005.22.02 |
Object Type |
Painting |