Feeley belonged to the same generation as Morris Louis and, like Louis, continued to strip his art of inessential expression until his early death brought an end to his career. For many years he taught at Bennington College.
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Title:Rijo
Artist:Paul Feeley (American, Des Moines, Iowa 1910–1966 New York)
Date:1963
Medium:Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:66 1/4 × 51 1/4 in. (168.3 × 130.2 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2006
[Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1963; sold on October 14, 1963 to Newman]; Muriel Kallis Newman, Chicago (1963–2006; her gift to MMA)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Post Painterly Abstraction," April 23–June 7, 1964, no. 27.
Minneapolis. Walker Art Center. "Post Painterly Abstraction," July 13–August 16, 1964, no. 27.
Art Gallery of Toronto. "Post Painterly Abstraction," November 20–December 20, 1964, no. 27.
New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Paul Feeley (1910-1966): A Memorial Exhibition," April–May 1968, unnumbered cat. (p. 43).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "An American Choice: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection," May 21–September 27, 1981, unnumbered cat. (p. 107).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 17, 2007–February 3, 2008, extended to March 2, 2008, no. 61.
Columbus Museum of Art. "Imperfections by Chance: Paul Feeley Retrospective, 1954-1966," October 25, 2015–January 10, 2016, no. 45 (as "Rijo (February 6)").
Lawrence Alloway. "Profile of Paul Feeley." Living Arts 3 (1964), p. 26, pl. 10.
E.C. Goosen. "Paul Feeley." Art International 8 (December 1964), pp. 31–33, ill.
Hilton Kramer. "The Pressure of a Style." New York Times (April 14, 1968), p. D29.
William Agee. "Muriel Kallis Newman–Life Among the Moderns." Architectural Digest 43 (December 1986), p. 70.
David Anfam inAbstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Gary Tinterow, Lisa Mintz Messinger, and Nan Rosenthal. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2007, pp. 197–99, no. 61, ill. (color).
Douglas Dreishpoon inImperfections by Chance: Paul Feeley Retrospective, 1954–1966. Exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Buffalo, 2015, pp. 27, 229, no. 45, ill. p. 151 (color).
Mark Rothko (American (born Russia, now Latvia), Dvinsk 1903–1970 New York)
1958
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