Walter Darby Bannard

Walter Darby Bannard
Born (1934-09-23)September 23, 1934
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Died October 2, 2016(2016-10-02) (aged 82)
Miami, Florida, U.S.
Nationality American
Education Phillips Exeter Academy, Princeton University
Known for Abstract painting
Movement Modernism, Lyrical Abstraction, Minimalism, Formalism (art), Post-painterly Abstraction

Walter Darby Bannard (September 23, 1934 – October 2, 2016) was an American abstract painter.

Biography

Bannard was born in New Haven, Connecticut and attended Phillips Exeter Academy (class of 1952)[1] and Princeton University, where he struck up a friendship and working relationship with Frank Stella, who was also interested in minimalist abstraction. He was associated with Modernism, Lyrical Abstraction, Minimalism, Formalism (art), Post-painterly Abstraction and Color Field painting.

Bannard was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968.

Bannard’s first solo show was at the Tibor de Nagy gallery in January, 1965 and he had exhibitions there until 1970. He began showing at the Lawrence Rubin Gallery, and then in 1974 at the Knoedler Contemporary Gallery, where he showed for the next 15 years. Currently he shows at the Loretta Howard Gallery and the Berry Campbell Gallery in New York City, the Daniel Weinberg Gallery in Los Angeles and the Center for Visual Communication in Miami, Florida. He has exhibited in numerous museums and galleries nationally and internationally. In Europe, he is exclusively represented by Roberto Polo Gallery in Brussels. Bannard's last solo exhibition was within the context of Painting After Postmodernism | Belgium - USA, curated by Barbara Rose, and organised by Roberto Polo Gallery in collaboration with the city of Brussels. This venue opened at the historic Vanderborght building in Brussels on September 14th, 2016. Bannard had close to a hundred solo exhibitions, was included in several hundred group shows, and is represented in the collections of all the major New York museums and many others around the world. He was a prolific writer on art with over a hundred published essays and reviews; Bannard has taught, lectured and participated in panel discussions, and has been a Co-chair of the International Exhibitions Committee of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Bannard was Professor and Head of Painting of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Miami. Bannard died in Miami, Florida on October 2, 2016 at the age of 82.[2]

Work

Art

Bannard's paintings from 1959 to 1965 contained few forms, as little as a single band painted around a field of color, and then developed into somewhat more complex geometric forms by the mid-1960s. The critic Phyllis Tuchman wrote about these works, "These colors are still radiant. And the artist’s pale palette is as uniquely personal today as it was fifty years ago. You can’t even apply a name to his hues."[3]

In the late 1960s the forms dissolved into pale, atmospheric fields of color applied with rollers and paint-soaked rags. He began using the new acrylic mediums in 1970 and his paintings evolved into colorful expanses of richly colored gels and polymers applied with squeegees and commercial floor brooms.[4]

Writing

Bannard's numerous essays appeared in Artforum, Art in America, and many other publications, including museum catalogs. He curated and wrote the catalog for the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of the paintings of Hans Hofmann, at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Bannard's writings are collected at the Walter Darby Bannard Archive.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Walter Darby Bannard '52", Exeter Bulletin, New Hampshire: Phillips Exeter Academy, 2009
  2. ↑ "Walter Darby Bannard (1934–2016)". artforum.com. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  3. ↑ Tuchman, Phyllis. "Walter Darby Bannard". Artforum. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  4. ↑ Grimes, William. "Walter Darby Bannard, Artist of the Color Field Movement, Dies at 82". New York Times. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "Walter Darby Bannard Archive". Retrieved 8 October 2016.

Selection public collections

Bibliography

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