Sentences with phrase «first abstract murals»
His constructions integrating found objects into paintings were the first such works created in the United States and he painted two of the five Williamsburg murals, the first abstract murals in the United States.
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In June 1958, just after he agreed to paint a mural for the Washington State Library in Olympia — the mural, featuring abstract forms, was dedicated June 7, 1959 — Tobey was awarded First Prize in the XXIX Venice Biennale, the art world's most prestigious recognition.
Together with original paintings from the late 1940's and early 1950's will be large - scale abstract silver gelatin works, and the first in a series of monumental painted Mural Projects, all conceived between 1950 and 1953, and only now realised at full scale.
The mural combines his typographically inclined abstract stylings with figurative elements — somewhat of a first for him.
During the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration hired him as a mural painter, and he was one of the first artists to create completely abstract designs for the project.