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Article: Robert Richenburg at MB modern. (New York).(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Art in America
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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Robert Richenburg's dark, Abstract-Expressionist paintings of the 1950s--first seen in the legendary Ninth Street Show (1951) when the New York School, of which Richenburg was a member, made its appearance as a group--not only hold their own today, some 50 years later, but excite new perceptions. Dominated by 19 large canvases made between 1949 and 1963, this recent exhibition offered a mini-survey of Richenburg's changing outlook over those years. A selection of his oils on paper, closely related to his canvases, rounded out the presentation. A constant in all the works is the freshness and intensity of the glow, the radiance from inside the dense surfaces.
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