Fritz Bultman “The Missing Irascible”

Edelman Arts

poster for Fritz Bultman “The Missing Irascible”

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Edelman Arts presents The Missing Irascible, a comprehensive exhibition of recently re-discovered work by historic American Abstract Expressionist Fritz Bultman (1919 - 1985). Exploring a multi-faceted body of work that spanned more than four decades, from the heyday of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s and 1950s to the close of his career in the mid 1980s, the exhibition includes painting, sculpture and large-scale collage.

Among the highlights are a number of significant works unseen in several years, including the monumental triptych Gravity of Nightfall (1961) and the bronze sculpture Garden at Nightfall II (1976). The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalogue with an essay by cultural historian and journalist Charles A. Riley II, PhD.

One of the epoch-defining artists in the group known as The Irascibles, Fritz Bultman’s place in art history was secured by 1950 thanks to a series of one-man exhibitions at some of the most prominent Manhattan and Provincetown galleries, as well as his inclusion in the blockbuster Black or White group show at the Samuel Kootz Gallery in 1950.

Bultman’s powerful works were admired by friends and rivals including Franz Kline, Hans Hofmann (his teacher), Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Willem de Kooning. Hofmann wrote, “I consider him the most brilliant of all the many students I have had… He must be considered today the most outstanding, the most sincere and the most disciplined young artist of the entire younger generation and this is in the international sense.”

[Image: Fritz Bultman (1919-1985) “Red Rope” (1967) Collage of painted papers. 36 x 32 in.]

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Schedule

from April 03, 2013 to May 18, 2013

Opening Reception on 2013-04-03 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Fritz Bultman

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