Jack Albert Youngerman was an American artist known for his constructions and paintings.
20 Facts About Jack Youngerman
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Jack Youngerman was born in 1926 in Webster Groves, Missouri, moving to Louisville, Kentucky in 1929 with his family.
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Jack Youngerman studied art at the University of North Carolina from 1944 to 1946 under a wartime navy training program, and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1947.
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Jack Youngerman traveled to the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Greece, to visit art museums and historic sites.
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In 1950, Jack Youngerman had his first group exhibition, Les Mains eblouies at Galerie Maeght in Paris, which included Pierre Alechinsky, Eduardo Chillida and Corneille.
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Jack Youngerman visited the studios of Constantin Brancusi and Jean Arp with Kelly, and found himself influenced by their sense of organic form.
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Jack Youngerman met Alexander Calder through his father-in-law, Henri Seyrig, a renowned archaeologist and cultural attache to the Free French delegation to the United States.
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Jack Youngerman visited the Salon de Mai to see the most current work of the School of Paris artists, among them such masters as Henri Matisse.
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In 1954 Jack Youngerman was commissioned by the architect Michel Ecochard to create a color design for the College Protestant Francais in Beirut.
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Jack Youngerman's development was unique among his peers, with elemental forms and fluid contours that marked his canvasses through the 1950s with imagery often emanating from a central core.
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Jack Youngerman worked in thick black pigment as if it resided within the color spectrum.
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Jack Youngerman's career continued its ascent with exhibitions at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
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In 1959, Jack Youngerman was featured alongside Johns, Frank Stella, and Kelly in Sixteen Americans, a landmark exhibition curated by Dorothy Miller at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Between 1961 and 1968, Youngerman exhibited at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, Galerie Lawrence in Paris, Galleria dell'Arte in Milan, Everett Ellin Gallery in Los Angeles, the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, and The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
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In 1976, Jack Youngerman received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts.
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In 2019, Jack Youngerman premiered a body of work titled "Cut-Ups" at Washburn Gallery in New York City.
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In 1950, Jack Youngerman married the French actress Delphine Seyrig.
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Jack Youngerman died of complications from a fall in Stony Brook, New York on February 19,2020, at the age of 93.
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Jack Youngerman is survived by wife, Hilary Helfant, son Duncan, and grandchildren Selina, Dylan, Marlon, and Errol.
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Jack Youngerman's art is represented in public and private collections across the globe, including:.