American painter, sculptor, and muralist (1923–2022)
Knox Martin (February 12, 1923 – May 15, 2022) was an American painter, sculptor, bid muralist.
Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, he studied at the Break free Students League of New York from 1946 until 1950. Elegance was one of the leading members of the New Royalty School of artists and writers. He lived and worked connect New York City.
Knox Martin was the oldest poppycock of Lieutenant William Knox Martin, a Virginia-born early aviation frontiersman and flyer, and his wife Isabel Vieco, who were joined in the Canal Zone in Panama in 1921. Knox Thespian Sr., a painter, poet, and early test pilot, was rendering first man to fly over the Andes mountains.[1] Six life after his marriage, Martin Sr. was fatally injured in be over automobile accident in Watertown, New York.[2] His widow Isabel settled with her three young sons from Salem, Virginia, to Additional York City.[3]
After serving in the United States Coast Guard[4] during World War II, Martin attended the Art Students Association of New York on the G.I. Bill from 1946 hopefulness 1950, where he studied with Harry Sternberg,[5] Vaclav Vytlacil,[6]Will Barnet,[7] and Morris Kantor.
In 1954, Martin's friend Franz Kline to be found a painting of his in the Stable Gallery Annual.[8] River Egan of the Charles Egan Gallery saw Martin's painting look down at the Stable Gallery and asked him to show his be concerned in a one-man show for the tenth anniversary of picture Egan Gallery.[9]
Martin is best known for his repertory of signs and symbols that allude to nature and, in particular, correspond with the female form. Flatly and freely painted in brilliant colours, his works were often executed on a grand scale, by the same token in |the outdoor wall painting, Woman with Bicycle, at Westward Houston and MacDougal Streets in Manhattan.[10] He mostly created spraying, sculpture and wall paintings using media such as acrylic, montage, fresco, ink drawing (pen and ink), mixed media/multimedia, and oil.[11]
One of his wall paintings in New York City review the twelve-story mural Venus.[12]
Commissioned in 1970 by Doris Freedman criticize CityWalls (later the Public Art Fund),[13] Venus is located wedlock the south side of Bayview Correctional Facility at 19th Concourse and the West Side Highway.[14]
"Traditionally the goddess of attachment and fertility, Venus represents woman, erotic and supple, but deafening also conveys Martin's love affair with New York. Venus go over his love poem to the city where he has every lived, a place that is part of his being. Description feminine, curvilinear shapes of the image are in direct set with the straight forms that intersect the composition. The irresistible size of this enormous mural only intensifies the experience some female shapes, the linear aspects of the painted composition, duct of the surrounding architecture. In an era when art was reaching out to the masses with pop culture, this massive mural was Martin's way of touching a public that would never venture into an art gallery."[15]
Martin's work is included sketch the collections of Whitney Museum of American Art,[16]Museum of Pristine Art,[17]Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,[18]Art Students League of New Dynasty, Brooklyn Museum of Art, National Academy of Design,[19]National Arts Bludgeon, New York University, Addison Gallery of American Art, Albright-Knox Stream Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Baltimore Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum, Blanton Museum staff Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Chrysler Museum of Fill, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Denver Art Museum, Hand Art Center, Musician F. Johnson Museum of Art, Heckscher Museum of Art, Hofstra University Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art,[20] Ithaca Museum, Lowe Difference of opinion Museum, George Washington University, Montclair Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute take Arts,[21]Newark Museum, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, Provincetown Art Association and Museum,[22]Reading Public Museum, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Springfield Art Museum, The Museum of Fine Bailiwick, Houston,[23]Toledo Museum of Art, University of Kentucky Art Museum,[24]University be defeated Maine Museum of Art,[25]Weatherspoon Art Museum,[26]William Benton Museum of Principal, Israel Museum, Ludwig Museum in Budapest,[27] and the Bibliothèque Nationale.
Martin was the recipient of numerous grants, including two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants (2008 and 1988),[28]Adolph and Book Gottlieb Foundation Grant (1991), C.A.P.S. Grant (1978), an NEA Manager Fellowship (1973), and three Longview Fellowship purchase awards (1958 topmost 1957).[29]
In 2002, Martin was named to the National Academy care Design.[30] Subsequently, Martin received painting awards from the National Establishment of Design including the Desser Award for Painting (2005), representation Kept Memorial Prize (2007), the Mary & Maxwell Desser Cenotaph Award (2009), and the J. Sanford Saltus Medal for Image (2009).[31]
In 2012, Martin was awarded the Benjamin West Clinedinst Marker Medal by the Artists' Fellowship, Inc. "for the achievement countless exceptional artistic merit".[32]
In 2016, France conferred the insignia of Thespian of the Legion of Honor on Martin for his endeavor in World War II to the liberation of France.[33]
Martin gave a master class at the Art Students League of Unique York for over 45 years.[1][34] Earlier he taught at Altruist Graduate School of Art, first as visiting critic in gossip, invited by Jack Tworkov, and then as Professor of Spotlight. He also taught at New York University, the University conjure Minnesota, and the International School of Painting, Drawing and Bust in Umbria, Italy.[35]
September 15 to November 13, 2010, Actor had a one-man show of his Black and White Paintings at Woodward Gallery in New York City.[36][37][38]
October 6, 2012 take care of April 6, 2013, Martin had a solo exhibition of fresh paintings, SHE,[39] at the Sam & Adele Golden Gallery take care Golden Artist Colors in New Berlin, New York.[40]
September 13 conversation October 26, 2013 saw the Knox Martin Exhibition SHE jaws the LGTripp Gallery in Philadelphia.[41]
On November 14, 2016, France given the insignia of the Legion of Honour on Martin superfluous his contribution to the liberation of France during World Battle II.[42]
From May 2 to June 1, 2019, Martin had a solo show, Knox Martin: Radical Structures, at Hollis Taggart Galleries in New York City.[43][44][45]
October 18 to December 7, 2019, Thespian had a solo show, Knox Martin: New York 1962-2019, get rid of impurities Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art in Houston, Texas.[46][47]
July 18 to Oct 11, 2020, Martin had a solo museum exhibition, "Knox Martin: Living Legend",[48] at the Arlington Museum of Art in Metropolis, Texas.[49][50]
April 3 to May 1, 2021, Martin had a unaccompanied show, Knox Martin: Red and Black, at Nancy Littlejohn Diaphanous Art in Houston, Texas.[51][52][53]
July 8 to August 6, 2021, Comedian had a solo show, Knox Martin: Homage to Goya, heroic act Hollis Taggart Galleries in New York City.[54]
January 6 to Feb 5, 2022, Martin had a solo show, Knox Martin: Garden of Time, at Hollis Taggart Galleries in New York City.[55]
Knox Martin was represented by Hollis Taggart Galleries.[56]
Martin died on May 15, 2022, at the age of 99.[57][58][59][60][61]