A Winter Showcase:
Gene Hutner, An American Master

Gene Hutner has been called an American Master "whose work is destined to endure and take its rightful place in the art history of this country", said Ed McCormack in reviewing a 1990 retrospective exhibition of Gene Hunter's watercolors in Artspeak magazine.

After receiving a Bachelors of Arts from The City College of New York and a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Teachers College of Columbia University, Hutner taught art in New York City High Schools while pursuing an independent painting career. His studies with Hans Hofmann led him to the medium of watercolor and involvement with the American Abstract Expressionist movement.

The challenge of working on large wet surfaces creating a luminosity and a sense of light coming through dark areas was achieved through great technical virtuosity. The artist developed the technique of applying brilliant colors to uniquely large expanses of paper. "I think very few people recognize how difficult watercolor is. It requires, first of all, a very solid background in composition. It requires an intuitive understanding of space, form and absolute security in what you are stating... In an oil painting you can paint out very easily, but here you really can't paint out..", Hutner explained.

"Hutner's large watercolors in his mature abstract style are masterpieces that can stand beside the best aquarelles of artists such as Winslow Homer and John Marin, for they take the medium further than any artist who preceded him into the realm of advanced esthetics." - Gene Hutner, an American Master, Ed McCormick, Artspeak, New York, October, 1990.

For information about Gene Hutner artworks, Contact: Lenore Segan or Barbara Fischman at (212) 463 8530 or visit www.hutner.com

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