A Winter Showcase:
Gene Hutner's Watercolors

January 10 - January 31

Although Gene Hutner worked in a variety of media including oils and acrylics, his primary love was watercolors. Influenced by artists of the New York School, Hunter turned to Abstract Expressionism several decades after the movement first appeared. Most of the work in Winter Showcase: Gene Hutner Watercolors, opening at the Mishkin Gallery on Wednesday, January 10, dates from the 1980s, the last decade of the artist's career, when abstract forms dominated his painting.

Hutner, whose work received only modest recognition during his lifetime (1921-1990), was a strong and vital colorist who used the translucent, luminous quality of watercolors to create images of movement, rhythm, and spatial tension. Inspired both by nature and by urban landscapes, he began late in his life, to experiment with unusually large pieces of paper, striving to expand the boundaries of his medium while maintaining control of his compositions and evanescent colors.

A retrospective of Gene Hutner's work was held in 1990. A review of that exhibition in Artspeak, described him as an "American Master . . .whose work is destined to endure and take its rightful place in the art history of this century." The 28 pictures in this exhibition are all in the collection of the artist's widow, Eleanor Hutner.

During his lifetime, Hutner exhibited his work primarily through Gallery 84, an artist's cooperative in New York, which he helped found. A graduate of CCNY '42, and a teacher in the New York City high schools for 25 years, he studied with the artist Hans Hofinann during the 1940s and '50s. After retiring from the public schools, Hutner was Artist-in-Residence at Randolph Macon College in Virginia, and the Montalvo Center for the Arts in California.

Winter Showcase: Gene Hutner Watercolors will be at the Mishkin Gallery from Wednesday, January 10 - Wednesday, January 31, 2001.

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