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Walter Plate
American
1925 - 1972
Abstract Composition
Oil on board
18 x 24 in.
Signed on the lower right …
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Walter Plate
American
1925 - 1972
Abstract Composition
Oil on board
18 x 24 in.
Signed on the lower right
Rudolph Galleries. Woodstock, stamps on verso
Frame 23 x 29 in.
Artist biography according to Levis Fine Arts:
Walter Plate’s ascent in the early Post War movement was remarkable. One of the youngest artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement to achieve major exhibition status along side Guston, Gottlieb, Rothko and other modernist masters, Walter Plate’s works were eagerly purchased by the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Gallery and other museums early in his career.
Born in Woodhaven New York in 1925, he studied at the Grand Central School of Art in New York before enlisting in the Marines in 1943. Following the war he attended L’Ecole des Beaux Arts, La Grande Chaumiere and the atelier of Fernand Leger. In 1950 he came to Woodstock, New York and attended classes of Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the Art Students league.
In each work, Plate’s flat planes and gestural brushstrokes compete with one another creating various chaotic energies within a thoughtful, functional order. The opaque and lucid quality of his surface and palette, somewhat reminiscent of stained glass windows, highlight his superiority as a master colorist. In Plate’s early 1960s compositions, he transitions from a linear to more concentrated and complex composition, perhaps a testament to his influential friendship with Philip Guston.
His early one-man shows are those of Ganso Gallery, New York City, 1954 and the Stable Gallery, 1958 and 1960, where Plate’s works were presented at the annual “Salon” of the most advanced and vital members of the New York avant-garde.
His early group shows were global, including The Whitney Museum annuals, 1957-61, PAFA, 1955, 1960; the 26th, and 27th Carnegie International biennial exhibitions, The Tate Gallery, London, 1959; The International Exhibition of Abstract Artists, Tokyo, Japan, 1959; the Corcoran Gallery Biennials, Washington D.C.
He was not a prolific artist, but when he painted, he received great reviews from the likes of Stuart Preston and Dore Ashton of the New York Times, and Lawrence Campbell of Art News. Yet, longer-term, Plate’s conviction to stay out of the New York City mainstream and avoid publicity would take its toll. He never wavered in his commitment to abstraction, a position that rendered him a “figure from the past” during the last 12 years of his life from 1960-72.
His painting career abruptly ended with his death at age 46 in 1972. Rarely, do Plate’s works come to market, being even scarcer than other short-lived modern masters like David Park. l
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- Dimensions
- 24ʺW × 1ʺD × 18ʺH
- Styles
- Abstract
- Art Subjects
- Abstract
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- 1950s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Oil Paint
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Blue
- Condition Notes
- Perfect Perfect less
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