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Paul Jenkins American, 1923-2012

Paul Jenkins was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1923. As a teenager he worked in a ceramics factory which inspired him to explore his studies in drawing and painting at the city Art Institute. An artist of the Abstract Expressionism. Paul Jenkins, an artist originally associated with abstract expressionism, which exhibits in his works redefining color, light and space. He later moved to New York City, to pursue his passion for art and studied at the Art Students Lounge. Morris Kantor & Yasuo Kuniyoshi became his influential instructors. A year later after moving to Paris, he had his first solo show. Jenkins explored with different techniques with flowing paints, pigments and thicknesses and linear overlays.  In 1958, Jenkins titled each canvas Phenomena, with additional identifying words. He believed the work should be descriptive of the process in each painting.  Jenkin’s paintings have undergone subtle but definite changes. In the 1960’s a shift of color saturation and exposure of the white areas gav

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Biography

1923 Born in Kansas City Joined up with the US Naval Air Corps during World War II Studied at the Art Students League 1953 Moved to Paris after a period of travel 1956 Co-edited 'Observations of Michel Tapié' First solo American show, at the Martha Jackson Gallery 1958 Began his 'Eyes of the Dove' series 1971 Retrospective at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts 1977 Received the Life Achievement Award from the Butler Institute of American Art, and the medal of the City of Paris 1980 Made Officer of Arts and Letters 1982 Received the Humanitarian Award from the National Committee of Arts for the Handicapped 1983 Made Commander of Arts and Letters 2012 Died

Selected solo exhibitions

1954 Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris 1957 Galerie Stadler, Paris 1958 Arthur Tooth and Sons, London 1964 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo 1969 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York 1973 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara 1977 Sears Bank and Trust Company,
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Paul Jenkins (painter)

American painter (1923–2012)

Paul Jenkins (July 12, 1923 – June 9, 2012) was an American abstract expressionist painter.

Biography

Early years

William Paul Jenkins (known as Paul Jenkins) was born in 1923 in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was raised. He met Frank Lloyd Wright who was commissioned by the artist's great-uncle, the Rev. Burris Jenkins (whose own motto was to "live dangerously") to rebuild his church in Kansas City, Missouri after a fire.[1][2] (Wright suggested that Jenkins should think about a career in agriculture rather than art.) The young Jenkins also visited Thomas Hart Benton and confided his intention to become a painter. The Eastern art collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum (then, the William Rockhill Nelson Art Gallery) had an early influence on him.[3]

In his teenage years, Jenkins moved to Struthers, Ohio to live with his mother, Nadyne Herrick, and stepfather, who both ran the local newspaper, the Hometown Journal (then the Struthers Journal). After graduating from Struther

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