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October 12, 2002 - January 5, 2003
CLEMENT GREENBERG: A Critic's Collection
This exhibition is organized by the Portland Art Museum and made possible with funds provided by Tom and Gretchen Holce with additional project support from Carol and John Hampton.
Recently acquired by the Portland Art Museum and debuting at The Dayton Art Institute, CLEMENT GREENBERG: A Critic's Collection is a survey of 20th century American art. Featuring more than 60 paintings and sculptures by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, David Smith, Friedel Dzubas, Anthony Caro, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Larry Poons, these works trace not only Greenberg's involvement with an international community of artists, but also visually represent the seminal ideas and strategies of art-making from 1940 onwards.
The collection begins with early works, such as a Pollock drawing, and continues through the movement Greenberg titled "post-painterly abstraction," represented by works by Walter Darby Bannard, Darryl Hughto, Poons and others. Next, the exhibition moves into Abstract Expressionism with works by Pollock, Frankenthaler, Hofmann and Dzubas. Notable works by Noland, Olitski and others represent the Color Field movement of the 1960s.
"The works in this collection reflect Greenberg's ideas and his passions, his friendships and his associations with American and European artists," said Bruce Guenther, the Portland Art Museum's curator of Modern and Contemporary art. "These are the objects he chose to live with and to keep. They are a vibrant connection to his role not only as a critic, reviewer and intellectual, but also to his relationships with the artists themselves."
The exhibition on view at The Dayton Art Institute is only a portion of the entire Clement Greenberg Collection, which features 155 works. The collection was purchased by the Portland Art Museum from Greenberg's widow, Janice Van Horne of New York City. Her decision to sell the works to the Portland Art Museum was motivated by her desire to make the collection available to the public.
A fully illustrated catalog accompanies the exhibition and discusses Greenberg's ideas and influences in relation to the artwork, as well as his special friendships with artists. United States.