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Dorothy Heller
1962 Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting "Little Sun"
1962

Name: 1962 Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting "Little Sun"
Brand: Dorothy Heller
Rating: 5 (14 reviews)

Price:$600

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Dorothy Heller "Little Sun" 1962 Oil on Canvas 22 1/2" x 17 3/4", Framed 24 1/2"x 19 1/2" Signed in paint lower right and on reverse Abstract expressionist painting by "the finest woman painter in America", Dorothy Heller (1916-2003). Signed in paint on lower right, she was a student of Hans Hoffman. Signed, dated 1962 and entitled, "Little Sun" on reverse. Canvas measures, 22 1/2" x 17 3/4", overall, 24 1/2" x 2" x 19 1/2". Light wood frame. This piece was acquired in the San Francisco Bay Area. Excellent Condition - Minor wear consistent with age and history. Could benefit from professional cleaning. Dorothy Heller Bio Dorothy Heller’s career as an artist spanned over five decades, from 1942 to the mid-1990s. By 1950, her works were abstract expressionist, many with urban or untamed nature themes. The work evolved into a humanistic period, beginning in the early 1960s, during which she explored human sensibility and intellect: the roles of literature and poets, life and death cycles, world religions, and symbols. Heller (1916-2003) lived and worked in New York City. She studied at the National Academy of Design and, later, with Hans Hofmann. She was active in the New York art world in the 1950s through 1970s and her solo exhibitions and works in group exhibitions were well-received. Her work appeared in numerous group exhibitions including the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Wadsworth Athenaeum, the Whitney Museum Annual, and Piccadilly Gallery, London. David Hass of northwest London, notes that the reviewer’s rundown of women painters in New York in the 1950s omits a certain Dorothy Heller, who, according to Hass (I wonder what his source is), was once named by Clement Greenberg as “the finest woman painter in America,” adding that she exhibited with the Tibor de Nagy, Poindexter, and Betty Parsons Galleries. Walter Wickiser Gallery Dorothy Heller studied at the Art Students League and later with Hans Hofmann. Her Abstract Expressionist Art Works were well received by the "Art World" during the 1950s through the 1970s; she was ranked along with the best of the Abstract Expressionists at that time. Her Abstract Expressionist work has not had much exposure since then. In the 80s and 90s she evolved a more mystical/symbolic style which was championed and shown by Betty Parsons; she died in 2003. A large selection of her work, approximately 200 paintings and 1,000 drawings are being put up for distribution to the public, either through selected lots to galleries, direct sales from the "Heller Studio" or to museums. Photographs and some drawings can be viewed by appointment; most of the art work is in the Heller Studio located in New York City. SOLO EXHIBITIONS The Donnell Library – New York, NY 1979 St. Peters Church - New York, NY 1979 Betty Parsons Gallery - New York, NY 1978 Transcendental Art Center - New York, NY 1977 Betty Parsons Gallery - New York, NY 1976 University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA 1976 Cathedral of St. John the Divine - New York, NY 1976 Fair Lawn Library - Fair Lawn, NJ 1975 Betty Parsons Gallery - New York, NY 1972 East Hampton Gallery - New York, NY 1963 Poindexter Gallery - New York, NY 1957 Poindexter Gallery - New York, NY 1956 Galerie Facchetti - Paris France 1955 Tibor de Nagy - New York, NY 1953 SELECTED GROUP SHOWS Betty Stoller - New York, NY 1980 The Otis Art Institute - Los Angeles, CA 1979 Betty Parsons Gallery - New York, NY 1972 thru 1979 Drew University - Madison, NJ 1977 C. W. Post College - Long Island, NY 1975 Albright-Knox Art Gallery - Buffalo, NY 1974 University of California Art Museum - Berkeley, CA 1974 New York Cultural Center “Women Choose Women” - New York, NY 1973 Piccadilly Gallery - London, England 1967 Wadsworth Atheneum - Hartford, CT 1964 Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) Traveling Exhibition 1963 Carnegie International - Pittsburgh, PA 1959 Carnegie Endowment Center - New York, NY 1958 Whitney Museum Annual - New York, NY 1956 Walker Art Center - Minneapolis, MN 1955 Galerie Prismes - Paris, France 1955 Stable Gallery Annual - New York, NY 1953 Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO 1953 PUBLIC MUSEUM COLLECTIONS Smithsonian Archives of American Art - Washington, DC 1977, 1981, 2012 Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York, NY 1990 Zimmerli Museum - Paris, France 1954, 1990 Channel 13 Collection - New York, NY 1964, 1972, 1977 Donnell Library Collection - New York, NY 1976 Johnson Museum at Cornell University 1970 University of California Art Museum - Berkeley, CA 1961 Chicago Art Institute - Chicago, IL 1957 Greenville County Museum of Art - Greenville, NC 1956 Allen Memorial Art Museum - Oberlin, OH 1956 Museum of Modern Art - Haifa, Israel 1956 Whitney Museum - New York, NY 1955 Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO 1953 SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Lenny Lipka Private Collection 1963-1966 Waldamar Hansen Private Collection 1964-1995 Russell Bush Private Collection 1964-1995 Arthur Minters Private Collection 1957-1965 Michelle Oka Frederick Doner Private Collection 1964-1981 Andrew Heller Private Collection 1948-1983 Boris Deborah Ostrovsky Private Collection 1963-1989 Arthur &Anita Kahn Private Collection 1974-1989 Barbara Nylund et al Private Collection 1993-2001 Charles Poncé Private Collection 1970-1999 William Thompson Julie Jones Private Collection 2012 ARTICLES LECTURES Christian Science Monitor, article author Theo Wolff 05/22/79 Meditation Today, cover and article 09/76 Smithsonian Institution, Lecture by Betty Parsons 04/76 Christian Science Monitor, article author Diana Loercher 10/22/76 Arts Magazine, article author Noel Frackman 04/76 Art News, article author James Mellow 11/72 Arts Magazine, article author Cindy Nemser 10/72 Carnegie Endowment Center, Lecture by Charles Poncé 02/71 La Presse, Montreal, article author Simone Auger 03/63 Art News, article author Irving Sandler 03/63 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Who’s Who in American Women 1977/1978 Who’s Who in the East 1977 International Women’s Year Award 1976 Who’s Who in American Art 1973 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution 1973 GENERAL INFORMATION Dorothy Heller was born in New York City on June 15, 1916 and died in New York City on November 26, 2003. Paintings on Linen: Approximately 450, of which approximately 100 sold or distributed Works on Paper: Approximately 3,000, of which approximately 400 sold or distributed Genres: (approximate dates) Early period 1940s Abstract Expressionist period 1949 to 1964 Mystical images 1965 to 1974 Symbolic images 1975 to 2003 Locations where works were created: 1940-1945 Various shared studios in New York City 1941-1942 Classes with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, MA 1945-1948 TB sanatorium Denver, CO 1949-1950 Studio in Denver, CO 1951-2003 Permanent studio at 8 West 13th St, New York City 1954 Studio in Paris, France

Creator:
Dorothy Heller (1946)
Creation Year:
1962
Dimensions:
Height: 24.5 in (62.23 cm)Width: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil
Movement Style:
Abstract Expressionist
Period:
Mid-20th Century
Condition:
Very Good Condition - Minor wear consistent with age and history.
Gallery Location:
Arp, TX
Reference Number:
Seller: DH1-11stDibs: LU1533214615522

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