Paul Jenkins

First Tuesday ArtWalk:
*March 8, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Exhibition Dates:
* January–March 2024

Robert Green Fine Arts is presenting an exhibition of paintings from the 1960’s & 70’s by noted Abstract Expressionist, Paul Jenkins (1923-2012).

In 1953 Jenkins was pouring paint on canvas and achieved prominence in New York and Europe for these early abstractions.

The work by Paul Jenkins have been widely exhibited throughout the world since his first solo exhibitions in 1950’s with Martha Jackson Gallery, New York; Arthur Tooth & Sons, London and Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris.

The paintings of Paul Jenkins have come to represent the spirit, vitality, and invention of post World War II American abstraction.

Employing an unorthodox approach to paint application, Jenkins is as much identified with the process of controlled paint-pouring and canvas manipulation as with the gem-like veils of transparent and luminous color which have characterize his work since the late 1950’s.

His first American retrospective, organized by Philippe de Montebello and Gerald Nordland, was held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1971), and traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Art (1972).

Major retrospectives were held at the Palm Springs Desert Museum; Musée Picasso, Antibes; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi; Kunstverein, Cologne; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover.

His works are found in international museum and private collections including the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum in New York; the National Museum of American Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; the Tate Gallery in London; Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.