John Hubbard 1931-2017
Still life with Chair, 1958
oil on canvas
38 x 36 in
96.5 x 91.4 cm
96.5 x 91.4 cm
signed and dated "John E Hubbard/'58" lower left; further signed and inscribed "John E. Hubbard 1958/301 W. 57 St., N.Y.C./Kantor Class" verso; titled on gallery label attached verso
This work was produced while Hubbard was studying at the Art Students League of New York, NYC, a school at the centre of the Abstract expressionist movement that counted Jackson...
This work was produced while Hubbard was studying at the Art Students League of New York, NYC, a school at the centre of the Abstract expressionist movement that counted Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Helen Frankenthaler and many other avant-garde artists as students. Hubbard's work from this period aligns to the painting theory associated with this group, notably Clement Greenberg's notion of modernism with its focus on the physical qualities of paint, sensuous action and the picture surface.
