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Artist: Sean Scully (1945 - )
Nationality: Irish
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Irish born, Sean Scully was raised in England and studied at the Croydon College of and Newcastle University. He then studied at Harvard University and settled in the United States in 1975. His work combines his varied influences in a conglomeration of Minimalism, Conceptual Art, and Abstract Expressionism. At first glance, his paintings seem Minimalist because of their simple patterns of contrasting colors. However a closer look reveals Scully’s attention to detail and layering, incorporating interesting textures and colors

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Sasol Art Museum, University of Stellenbosch: Larry Scully 80
His extensive curriculum vitae reflects his achievements over the years. Critics have, over the years, always been excited about what this larger than life artist could accomplish on canvas. The name of Larry Scully has over the past few ...
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: Sean Scully: Paintings, Pastels, Watercolors and Photographs
During the last decade the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased two large-format paintings of Scully's Durango (1990) and Wall of Light Light (1999) which are now among the central pieces of a comprehensive exhibition of the works of Sean...
Haus der Kunst: Sean Scully: The Nineties - Paintings, Pastels, Watercolors, Photographs
Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko and Henri Matisse are the most important influences on the painting of Sean Scully. Since the 1970s, the artist has restricted himself to a severely reduced form repertoire of lines, stripes and blocks for his pictures. ...
Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Sixth Gem Artists of North America Exhibit
The items in this special exhibition were loaned by 13 members of the Gem Artist of North America (GANA), an organization of about 100 people committed to the advancement of gemstone lapidary art. Showcasing some of the top lapidary artists in t...
Texas Fine Arts Association at Jones Center for Contemporary Art: New American Talent: The Sixteenth Exhibition
Other states represented include Arkansas, California, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington. Texas and California lead the selection with nine artists respectively. Due to the generous support of Philip Morris Companies Inc., TFAA was...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: A Vision of Modern Art in Memory of Dorothy Walker
The exhibition is, fittingly, curated by a fellow writer and art critic Ciarán Bennett, who has made Dorothy Walker’s time as an outstanding art critic, from 1968 to 1982, the focal point of the show. This period was associated not only with the ...
Parsons Exhition Center: Drawing in the Present Tense
This show is based on a series of simple observations about the drawing process. The creative process itself often has its origins in drawing. In this view, drawing comes about from a succession of traces, impulses and sensations that form an end...
Rebecca Ibel Gallery: Summertime 99
Katherine Bradford and Matt Magee are New York based artists represented here with a group of recent paintings. Magees colors and forms dance on the surface in rhythm, exuberating life. While Mageeís abstract paintings are about surface patte...
Ohio Art League: Wet and Dry: 4x5
The artists have been asked to address the 4x5 format and theme, even though they most likely do not generally work this way. Work can be black and white or color, digital or traditional. Exhibiting artists are: Steven Elbert, Mary Fahy, Dan Grose...
Arlington Museum of Art: New American Talent 16: Organized by the Texas Fine Arts Association (TFAA)
Umland states that far from a comprehensive picture of a particular moment in 21st century art…what is captured here are a series of distinctive instances of artistic expression in the making, as represented by 32 different artists working in the...
Yale School of Architecture Galleries: 2 Views of Eero Saarinen: The Architectural Photography of Balthazar Korab and Ezra Stoller
This exhibition celebrates the work of two great architectural photographers who were closely associated with a great architect, Eero Saarinen, Robert A.M. Stern, dean of Yale School of Architecture, commented. Through the interpretive photograph...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: The Rowan Collection: Contemporary British and Irish Art
The exhibition, in the New Galleries, includes paintings, photographs, sculpture, installations and graphic works. The subject matter is equally diverse embracing abstraction, figure ...
Williamsburg Art and Historical Center: Sun Pictures to MegaPixels: Archaic Processes to Alternative Realities (Pre-and Post-Modernist Photography)
This makes archaic process photography as a kind of expressionism: the visibility of the chemical medium imparts an emotional perspective to the subject. Digital process photographers, on the other hand, drawing their inspiration from the imaginat...

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