Richard Pousette-Dart: East River Studio at LUHRING AUGUSTINE

Organized by Christopher Wool and the artist's daughter painter Joanna Pousette-Dart, this selection of pieces were fabricated while the artist worked in a studio that had been a former brewery on East 56th street. As one of the youngest and most ambitious of the Abstract Expressionists, Pousette-Dart's decision to go big in the early 40's set the standards for the massive scale of "American Type Painting". "The sizes of my paintings in the early days were often determined by the largest roll of canvas I could afford to buy and the largest wall I could tack it on", stated the artist. Seeing these works in context exemplifies the seminal role Pousette-Dart played in the New York painting world from the early 1940s till his death in the early 1990s.

[@jameskalmroughcut]

I still think he's one of the most underrated Ab-Exers out there. He started young, worked hard, and painted a long time. What more could any artist ask for? (And he was good.)

[@sigalitbutterflybenjamin6655]

Giant, huge painter, thank you so much that I did not know him and he is great

[@jameskalmroughcut]

One of the most important and yet under-recognized painters of the New York School.

[@sigalitbutterflybenjamin6655]

It's true, I have a few books on the Ab Ex and he is mentioned there only by the way, without a photograph of his works, it's amazing that I've never heard of him and his works are so deep, thorough, serious, and meaningful. It only shows how good painters get ahead of us, and it takes us generations to understand them. Pollack is the most famous in the group, but I think many are better than him there, especially Mark Tobey, Adolph Gottlieb, even Lee his wife, and for sure Pousette-Dart. Actually I think Ab Ex in general is not appreciated enough, and will be written about it in the future, when it connection will be understood to describe the spiritual human mind, in terms of aspects that only psychics around the world are revealing to us today. Thanks SO much that you bring the art in New York to the artists and people around the world, that's so important, to me and I'm sure for others, Thanks

[@malcolmnicoll1165]

Love this painter. Thanks for posting.

[@robertspies4695]

Thanks James. I love this work.

[@unbroken1010]

Thinking about him this morning his daughter is kind of interesting too. I love old school hammered on frames.

[@1kokkola1]

I think his paintings are amazing really. Jean Paul Riopelle , so underrated, who use to live with Joan Mitchell was great even though Joan use to throw plates at his head. But then again Lee Krasner threw plates at Jackson and Elaine at Bill - man those were the days when drunks ruled the painting world!!

[@chezceleste]

Thank you Kate.

[@chezceleste]

Brilliant...I love these paintings...feel a great yearning to touch them and smell them and feel their magnetic force...but the next best thing are your videos, for which I am eternally grateful.

[@jeffreyturner4438]

Been a fan of his work since 1980. Also love Conrad Marca Relli and Stanley Twardowicz.

[@claureic]

I remember seeing a show of his paintings paired with Wols. Owls really knocked him out, despite the difference in size.

[@張非凡-p4z]

以黑，灰，白三原色呈現画面，焦點和線條重疊交錯，解構現代抽象元素，有時間與嵗月的痕跡，作品很平凡，不矯情，我喜歡!

[@petertarsio7168]

I happened to be a visitor at his house here in Rockland.

[@MikeWdamn]

What's up with the music?

[@claureic]

Seminal maybe, but I think his paintings are dated, a bit like the school of Paris of the fifties.

[@chezceleste]

And the 17th Century Dutch school...all terribly of their time.

[@stangss1]

I saw these exact images on some wallmart art, but the wallmart art had a better color palette...

[@claureic]

I don't think he holds his own against Gorky and De Kooning. Lacks power IMO.