Book Description
This definitive monograph presents the work of the artist Leonard Nelson. Most of his life was spent in Philadelphia, but he was also based in New York, where he was exhibited at the famed Betty Parsons and Peridot Galleries, as well as at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century. He worked in a variety of media including oil paintings, printmaking and welded sculptures. At its start, he was an important member of the Abstract Expressionist Movement.
Over 60 color illustrations and an introduction by the art historian Sam Hunter Illuminate this important contemporary artist's life and works.
About the Author
Sam Hunter is a professor Emeritus of art history at Princeton University and a leading critic and historian of modern and contemporary art. His numerous publications include Modern French Painting; Modern American Painting and Sculpture; Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture Architecture (Third Edition), with John Jacobus; and recent monographs on Arnold Pomodoro, Isamu Noguchi, Marino Marini, Hans Hoffman, George Segal, Alex Katz, Tom Wesselmann and Robert Rauschenberg. Before his academic appointment at Princeton, he was successively Director of three important American museums: The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, and The Jewish Museum in New York.
