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Frank VavruskaThe Humming Bird: Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
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About the Item
Frank Vavruska
(American, 1917-1974)
Title: The Humming Bird
Materials: Oil on Canvas
Size: 67 ¾ x 20 ½ inches
Markings: Signed lower right and titled on reverse
Frank Vavruska was born in Antigo, Wisconsin, to Czech parents. He studied art at University of Wisconsin (1935-38) and the Art Institute of Chicago (1938-41), where he took a BFA and was awarded the Ryerson Traveling Fellowship, which enabled him to paint and travel in Mexico (1941-42, again 1945-46). While hospitalized in England in the US Army during WWII, Vavruska produced many paintings which were the basis for a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1945. In 1948, a painting of his was selected for the important Abstraction
Surrealism in American Art exhibition at the Art Institute, and the painting was reproduced in the show’s catalog. Vavruska worked for two years in the Yucatan Peninsula, was commissioned to make a mural for the Archeological Museum in Campeche, and developed an avid interest in the archeological richness of the region. The artist lived in Europe for six years, mainly in southern France, and he traveled in North Africa, Italy, Paris, and spent a year in London.
In the late ’40s, his work began to shift from the expressionist figurative basis it initially had towards a purer form of abstraction, and his work from the early ’50s bears some resemblance to the work of COBRA artists of Northern Europe, some of which he may have seen at the time. These rough abstract paintings were part of exhibitions at the Metropolitan (American Painting Today, 1950), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1957), Madison Square Garden (Art U.S.A., 1958), and elsewhere.
- Creator:Frank Vavruska (1917 - 1974, American, Czech)
- Dimensions:Height: 67.75 in (172.09 cm)Width: 20.5 in (52.07 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1637217103872
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