Lucy Baker Acrylic Painting on Canvas "Red Hot!"
Item Details
Lucy Baker (American, b. 1955)
Red Hot!, 1980
acrylic on canvas
inscribed to the verso; Lucy Baker 1980/ ‘Red Hot!’
20′ × 38′
Provenance
The Lucy Baker and Kenworth Moffett Collection of New New Group Painters
Included with the painting is an exhibition catalog for Lucy Baker, 2002.
An acrylic painting on canvas titled Red Hot! by Lucy Baker, executed in 1980. An abstract expressionist composition of black and grey splatters drip across a ground of deep red. The darkness and rawness inspired by Pollock’s early semi-figural works.
Lucy was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1955. She received her B.A Fine Arts at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, 1975 and her Certificate of Welding at Platt Tech. in Milford, Connecticut, 1977. She attended the Emma Lake workshop in 1980 as a guest of Kenworth Moffett. Member of the New New Painters, a group of artists brought together by the first curator of modern and contemporary art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Dr. Kenworth Moffett in 1978. Lucy has been the key figure for an entire movement of brilliant artists, the New New Painters, whom she has led both stylistically and in the use of the new acrylic paints and gels.
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Item #
17DCC195-434