Walter Stomps Acrylic Painting "April Hues," 1978

Item Details

Walter Stomps, Jr. (Kentucky/Ohio, 1929 – 2020)
April Hues, 1978
Acrylic painting on canvas
Signed to lower right
Attributes inscribed to verso
Attributes labeled to verso

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.

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Condition

- abrasions, staining and handling smudges to edges of composition; tear to upper right of canvas; stretcher marks to margins; minor wear and loosening to frame; wear, abrasions and water staining to verso.

Dimensions

- measures frame; sight measures 36.0" W x 40.0" H.

Item #

ITMGB80440