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George Stillman, 1948, Untitled, Oil on Canvas, 48" x 38"
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George Stillman, Painter 1921 -1997
George Stillman was an American Abstract Expressionist artist and member of the San Francisco Bay Area group known as the "Sausalito Six". His work ranged from pure abstraction to figurative subjects treated
expressionistically; one writer refers to it as hailing from the
"quietest branch of Abstract Expressionism, which preferred to transport
the imagination rather than jolt the senses". During this period, he collaborated with other members of the Sausalito Six to create a portfolio of 17 lithographs entitled Drawings (1948) that is considered a landmark in the history of Abstract Expressionist printmaking. In 1949, the San Francisco Museum of Art honored him with the Ann Bremer Award. However, in the 1950s, when he went to Mexico to study and later take
up a teaching job at the University of Guadalajara, he hauled most of
his work to the dump. As a consequence, only a few dozen works survive
from this phase of his career. Stillman's work is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York),
the Oakland Museum (California), the British Museum (London), and
numerous other art institutions.
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