Abe Ajay correspondence with Ad Reinhardt

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Abe Ajay correspondence with Ad Reinhardt

1963-1967

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Thirty-six postcards from Reinhardt to Ajay, 1963-1966, and 7 letters between the two concerning a thousand dollar cash prize won by Reinhardt at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1963. Also included are typescript copies of the letters assembled by Ajay and titled: One Picture is Worth a Thousand Dollars?, an article published in Art in America describing and reproducing their correspondence regarding the prize; and a political cartoon, 1967, sent to Ajay from Reinhardt.

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Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967

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An abstract painter considered influential in the development of Minimalism. Though a contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists, he rejected biomorphism and developed paintings based on geometry, specifically grids, often using a single color in gradations. His last works were a series of all-black canvases. From the Getty's Union List of Artist Names record...

Ajay, Abe

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Abe Ajay, painter and sculptor. Born 1919. Ad Reinhardt, painter. From the description of Abe Ajay correspondence with Ad Reinhardt, 1963-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502742 d. 1998. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122447838 B. 1919. From the description of Abe Ajay artist file. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 22843213...

Art Institute of Chicago.

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