🔥 Important Vintage Modernist Hard Edge Abstract Oil Painting WALTER BALL 1950s

Description: This is a RARE and Important Vintage Modernist Hard Edge Abstract Oil Painting on canvas, by esteemed Sacramento, California - East Coast Modernist painter and educator, Walter N. Ball (1930 - 2005.) This artwork depicts an ethereal lyrical abstraction of various forms, hard edged shapes, and otherworldly configurations throughout. Signed on the verso of the top stretcher bar: "W.N. BALL." Walter Ball's unique rendering of Abstract Expressionism borrowed from his years living in Northern California, and by being exposed to the Bay Area Figural Abstraction Movement, featuring luminaries such as Richard Diebenkorn (1922 - 1993.) This artwork likely dates to the 1950's, based on the frame, canvas, and early style of the artist's work. Approximately 27 1/2 x 37 1/2 inches (including frame.) Actual artwork is approximately 23 7/8 x 34 inches. Good condition for nearly 80 years of age and storage, with moderate scuffing, edge wear, chipping, soiling and paint loss to the original period vintage painted frame. Additionally, there are several scuffs, and areas of craquelure across the surface of the painted canvas (please see photos.) Ball has been exhibited in more than 200 art galleries and museums across the United States, and according to my research, this is the first original artwork by the artist to ever be offered for sale since the invention of the Internet, and without a doubt his earliest. Priced to Sell. Acquired in Los Angeles County, California. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About the Artist: The Way We See (2005) Artist and professor Walter N. Ball ’57 had his artwork shown in more than 200 museums and art galleries throughout the United States. He joined the faculty of Northern Illinois University in 1968, after teaching at Wisconsin State University, California State University Sacramento and Ohio State University. Recognized for his abstract artwork, which combines geometrics with human and other motifs, Ball’s paintings and drawings can be found in public and private collections worldwide. He commonly used bold colors in conjunction with simple pattern. The Noho Gallery of New York described his work as “visual metaphors reflecting the provisional aspects of existence which parallel the shifting and changing nature of everyday experiences.” His lifelong commitment to painting fostered in him an ongoing curiosity about how visual perception takes place and how depth cues and other phenomena influence the way we see. A dedicated teacher, he was often a visiting artist and guest lecturer at universities across the Midwest and in California. Walter Ball died Jan. 3 in Dekalb, Ill. William J. Hughes and Walter N. Ball Sacramento State College (April 1964) By Elizabeth M. Polley "...Walter Ball shows work covering several years. He has selected carefully. Cubism has obviously given him his greatest impetus in developing style, although his more recent work, more emotional in expression, suggests a particularly individual form of popism distilled from West Coast figurativism. His latest canvas, which concerns red and white stripes, denim blue and summer green is a bit of Americana called Transit. It is not only his best work, but is also something of an announcement: he is at the crossroads. E.M.P." The Art Box Presents 'The Art of Walter Ball' June 9, 2016 "The Art of Walter Ball,” color studies and dry pigment pastel color compositions, will be on display at The Art Box, 308 E. Lincoln Highway in DeKalb, from June 13 through July 7. An opening reception will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 12. Walter N. Ball (1930-2005) dedicated his life to the production of works of art and teaching art. He earned a Ph.D. in Studio Art with Hoyt Sherman at the Ohio State University, taught for many years in schools of art, and devoted most of his teaching career to the students at the School of Art at Northern Illinois University. Ball is known for his crisp, flat, non-textural abstract paintings and drawings that subtly integrate figurative elements with multiple readings of each work where the viewer may experience edges of forms and shapes where none are explicit. The transitory nature of the relationships of forms and images within the work reflects evolution and change, just as ideas often emerge and transform as life experiences and environments change. Ball was raised in the vast rural plains of Kansas, which seems to be metaphorically echoed in the experience one has with the scale and visually dynamic ever-changing form and color in these two-dimensional works. Ball has been affiliated with galleries throughout the U.S. and has shown in many venues including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Nelson Gallery in Kansas City, the Colorado Institute of the Arts in Denver, The E.B. Crocker Art Gallery in Sacramento, and many others. Ball’s work is represented in public and private collections worldwide including the Alex Bernstein Collection, London; the Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana; the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; and Kishwaukee College, Malta. Retired faculty dies at age 74 By Laurel Marselle (January 20, 2005 - Northern Illinois University) Dr. Walter Ball, retired from the NIU school of art, died Jan. 3 at the DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center. He was 74.Walter earned a bachelor of arts degree from Baker University in Baldwin City, Kan.; a master of fine arts degree from the University of Wichita in Wichita, Kan.; and a doctorate from the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.Walter joined the faculty at NIU in 1968 where he taught painting and drawing in the department of visual and performing arts until his retirement in 1996.“He was a relatively quiet individual, but very intelligent and could speak very well about his concept of art,” said Dr. Jerry Meyer, former assistant art department chair. “If you knew him, you would know he had a wonderful, dry sense of humor.”At the time he entered NIU, Walter was one of only two professors who held a doctorate of fine arts, Meyer said.“His degree was very rare,” Meyer said. “For only a few years, Ohio State was the only institution in the country to offer a doctorate in painting and drawing.”Walter was hired to strengthen the graduate program in art and was remembered as being demanding, but patient with students, Meyer said.His wife, Corintha Ball, remembers him as being a steadfast friend.“He took great pleasure in seeing his students succeed in the visual arts,” Ball said. “He had a great sense of dedication to whatever he did.”Ball had a particular approach to painting in his aspects of color.“He would deal with color in a semi-abstract form and didn’t paint in a realistic manner; he would take an abstract of nature like a person or a still life and have carefully rendered color, form and line,” Meyers said.Walter suffered a stroke in the fall of 2002 and one year later found out he had inoperable cancer. He also suffered two falls, one in which he broke his hip and never returned home from the Rehab & Nursing center.Walter’s other interests included space science, carpentry and gardening, Ball said.

Price: 3500 USD

Location: Orange, California

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