Large American Nw Abstract Expressionist Painting Circus "Wire Performance" by Fredrick Heidel, 1993

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A large American Abstract Expressionist acyrilic on canvas painting by Pacific Northwest artist Frederick Heidel ( 1915-2000), titled "Wire Performance", … Read more A large American Abstract Expressionist acyrilic on canvas painting by Pacific Northwest artist Frederick Heidel ( 1915-2000), titled "Wire Performance", Oregon, 1993.
This is a large & later work by the artist, with various hues of blue with warmer inflections of orange, green, and pink. It depicts a circus high wire act, with a tall ladder to the high wire and figures in gymnastic poses.
This large painting is housed in the original simple wooden frame, it is signed lower right "Heidel", to the verso are two old gallery labels, one from the Foster White Gallery in Seattle and the other from the Laura Russo Gallery, Portland.
Frederick Heidel is featured in the book, "Oregon Painters: the First Hundred Years (1859-1959)", the painting is in excellent condition and is ready to grace your wall.

At sight without frame 50" x 42"

Frederick Heidel was born in Corvallis, Oregon, he received his Master's degree in fine art from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1956, he began teaching art (and did so for over 35 years) at Biarritz American University, Biarritz, France in 1945. Later he taught at Long Beach City College in California and became professor of art at University of Oregon in 1949. In 1951 Heidel began his long association with Portland State University where he was both professor and chairman of the department of art and architecture until 1980.
Heidel's subjects were mostly landscapes, painted with a warm palette. His paintings were interpretive of, and inspired by, the visual world; subject matter was secondary to patterning. His later works were characterized by intense color and expressive form. Heidel has stated that he felt most akin to the Expressionists; he painted to express ideas and feelings relating to people and things, in time and place. Although Heidel began his career as a painter he started working in glass in the 1960s after receiving a grant to work in the glass factories in Holland. He traveled to Amsterdam the rest of his professional life to create the laminated and fused glass for his sculpture. He has had one person exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Smith Anderson Gallery in Palo Alto, and the Glasgalene Kuhler in Amsterdam.
Heidel exhibited nationally and internationally and was featured in numerous one-person shows. His work can be found in Oregon in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, Portland State University, the Coos Art Museum, and the University of Oregon. There is a mural by Frederick Heidel at the Lane County Courthouse in Eugene. Also works are in the collections of; Washington Arts Commission, Saward Art Collection, Portland Community College Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art New York.

With thanks to the authors of; Oregon Painters: the First Hundred Years (1859-1959), Ginny Allen and Jody Klevit. See less