Walter Stomps Abstract Pastel Drawing, Mid-20th Century

Item Details

Walter Stomps, Jr. (Kentucky/Ohio, 1929 – 2020)
Untitled (abstract), mid-20th century
Pastel drawing on paper
Signed to lower left

Provenance
From the estate of the artist, Walter Stomps, Jr.

Walter Stomps was a modern formalist artist who specialized in large-scale Abstract Expressionist and geometric Color Field paintings. He received his BFA and MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago, during which he developed a method of layering acrylic paint and applying large dabs of paint with industrial paper towels and paint-soaked linen. Throughout his career, Stomps also taught at the Middletown Fine Arts Center, the Dayton Arts Institute, and Western Kentucky University for over four decades. Similar to other Modernists of the 20th century, he began working in a more representational style, then progressed into gestural Abstract Expressionism before developing his mature monumental Color Field style. His work has been exhibited at multiple institutions including the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Dayton Art Institute, the Owensboro Museum of Art, and the J.B. Speed Museum of Art.

Condition

- minor wear to sheet; minor smudging throughout; minor water staining to lower margin; pinholes to corners; minor wear and staining to verso.

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Item #

ITMG774872