Larry Poons
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Biography
Larry Poons is an abstract painter, originally born in Tokyo, Japan. From 1955 to 1957, the artist studied music at the New England Conservatory of Music and later enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He taught at the Art Students League of New York from 1966 until 1970 and returned to teach there in 1997. Poons is best known for his lyrical colour paintings first exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the mid-1960s. His paintings are currently in the collections of many major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Chicago Art Institute; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Tate in London. During the last thirty years, his art has been included in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions, including many contemporary exhibitions at major museums and galleries around the world.
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Timeline
1937 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1955-1957 Studies music at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston
1958 Briefly studied at the Boston Museum Art School
1959 Views an exhibition by Barnett Newman that inspires Poons to shift his artistic practice toward painting, and he enrolls in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1963 Showcases his first solo exhibition
1966-70 Teaches at the Art Students League of New York
1967 Begins experimenting with drip painting techniques and looser abstract compositions, a shift away from his previous Op-Art focus
Early 1970s Begins pouring, throwing, and splashing paint onto the surface of his paintings
Late 1970s Begins building the surface of his paintings from foam, rubber, rope, and typewriter paper, causing the resulting compositions to protrude three dimensionally
1997 Teaches at the Art Students League in New York
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Works
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Larry Poons01AS-2, 2001Acrylic on canvas
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Larry PoonsFalling Thru States 95A-1, 1995Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
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Larry PoonsSpring Field, 1989Acrylic on canvas
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Larry PoonsBo Jangle , 1968Acrylic on canvas
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Larry PoonsJack of Sparks, 2007Acrylic on canvas
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Larry PoonsLooks like Li-Po, 2007Acrylic on canvas
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Exhibitions
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Some of the artists I have worked for
10 September - 5 October 2019To end the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the gallery, we are delighted to introduce a selection of works by the artists that helped shaping its success. -
Larry Poons: New Paintings
12 September - 10 October 2007Larry Poons' current works are large canvases covered with an incredible armoury of different small brush marks. Although abstract, they bring to mind associations with Post-Impressionist painters such as Édouard...
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Art Fairs
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Publications
