Roy Newell
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Roy Newell was an American abstract painter
. He was born in Manhattan's
Lower East side on May 10, 1914 and died of cancer
on November 22, 2006 in Manhattan. His paintings show great colour
ed rectangle
s in chromatic harmony. He took part in the Group of American Abstract Expressionists
and was also a founding member of 8th Street Artist Club, which also included Willem de Kooning
, Arshile Gorky
, Franz Kline
and Philip Pavia.
Newell was self-taught. Newell was not a very prolific painter; the number of his works is less than 100, because he constantly repainted the coloured areas with new colours, until he was satisfied with the result, which seldom happened. Due to his continued reworkings of his art, some of his paintings became up to an inch thick. He sold very few of his paintings. However, his works are part of the collections of museums such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
, Seymour Hacker, the New York University Art Collection, the de Kooning Estate and Edvard Leiber among others. His influences include Cezanne and Kasimir Malevich.
Edvard Lieber (author of Willem DeKooning Reflections in the Studio) introduced Roy Newell to John Woodward of Woodward Gallery, NYC in 1995. Director John Woodward photographed and inventoried all Newell’s paintings. From January 18th- March 9th 1996 Woodward Gallery hosted Newell’s largest exhibition to date. “Roy Newell: Lifelines: 1955- 1995” was a 40 year retrospective and his first one-man show in a decade. It featured 23 paintings. The critical review of that exhibition was written by Nick Paumgarten “Grumpy Old Artist Gets His Due”, NY Observer, February 24, 1996. Press photos of the opening reception documented the large turnout of guests to celebrate this talented artist.
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
. He was born in Manhattan's
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
Lower East side on May 10, 1914 and died of cancer
Cancer
Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
on November 22, 2006 in Manhattan. His paintings show great colour
Color
Color or colour is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others. Color derives from the spectrum of light interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors...
ed rectangle
Rectangle
In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is any quadrilateral with four right angles. The term "oblong" is occasionally used to refer to a non-square rectangle...
s in chromatic harmony. He took part in the Group of American Abstract Expressionists
Abstract expressionism
Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris...
and was also a founding member of 8th Street Artist Club, which also included Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands....
, Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-born American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. As such, his works were often speculated to have been informed by the suffering and loss he experienced of the Armenian genocide.-Early life:...
, Franz Kline
Franz Kline
Franz Jozef Kline was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement centered around New York in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and attended Girard College, an academy in Philadelphia for fatherless boys...
and Philip Pavia.
Newell was self-taught. Newell was not a very prolific painter; the number of his works is less than 100, because he constantly repainted the coloured areas with new colours, until he was satisfied with the result, which seldom happened. Due to his continued reworkings of his art, some of his paintings became up to an inch thick. He sold very few of his paintings. However, his works are part of the collections of museums such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a well-known museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions...
, Seymour Hacker, the New York University Art Collection, the de Kooning Estate and Edvard Leiber among others. His influences include Cezanne and Kasimir Malevich.
Edvard Lieber (author of Willem DeKooning Reflections in the Studio) introduced Roy Newell to John Woodward of Woodward Gallery, NYC in 1995. Director John Woodward photographed and inventoried all Newell’s paintings. From January 18th- March 9th 1996 Woodward Gallery hosted Newell’s largest exhibition to date. “Roy Newell: Lifelines: 1955- 1995” was a 40 year retrospective and his first one-man show in a decade. It featured 23 paintings. The critical review of that exhibition was written by Nick Paumgarten “Grumpy Old Artist Gets His Due”, NY Observer, February 24, 1996. Press photos of the opening reception documented the large turnout of guests to celebrate this talented artist.
External links
- Earl McGrath Gallery: Roy Newell. Retrieved on June 19, 2007.
- Obituaries El País (Spain; in Spanish): Roy Newell. Retrieved on June 19, 2007.
- Roy Newell at Earl McGrath - New York, New York - Review of Exhibitions. Retrieved on June 19, 2007.
- Woodward Gallery, Roy Newell-Lifelines 1955-1995. Retrieved on March 4, 2010.