Lucy Baker Acrylic Painting on Oval Canvas

Item Details

Provenance
The Lucy Baker and Kenworth Moffett Collection of New New Group Painters

An acrylic painting on canvas titled Red Hot! by Lucy Baker (American, b.1955), executed in 1979-80. An abstract expressionist composition of red and green color spread across a plain ground. The rawness is inspired by Pollock’s early semi-figural works. Inscribed to the verso and mentioned that it was signed in 2012, yet completed in 1980. The work remains unframed.

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.

Condition

- some soiling to the gessoed canvas.

Dimensions

Item #

17DCC306-206