Mr. Youngerman, who had a house and studio in Bridgehampton since 1968, majored in journalism at the University of Missouri. Jack Youngerman, a significant American artist for more than six decades, died on Feb. 19 at Stony Brook University Hospital of complications from a fall. Jack Youngerman is an American artist known for his abstract paintings of simplified organic forms. Sign up as a RoGallery Insider for new art arrivals, auctions, and deals. He struck me, first and foremost, as a rationalist, sensitive but unsentimental. Jack Youngerman was born in St. Louis, Missouri on March 25, 1926.
The marriage ended in divorce.
His most recent work—the paintings hanging on the walls of his studio when I saw him last—were quite different from those that covered the walls on my first visit. But he became restless and, as his time in Paris wore on, increasingly alienated from contemporary French art. Jack Youngerman was born in 1926 in Webster Groves, Missouri, moving to Louisville, Kentucky in 1929 with his family.
He then received a series of solo shows at the Betty Parsons Gallery. Mr. Youngerman moved to Bridgehampton, N.Y., in 1995 and maintained a house and studio there since the late 1960s. The family moved to Louisville, Kentucky, when he was 3. 1951 First one-man exhibition at Galerie Arnaud, Paris. Copyright © 1996-2020 The East Hampton Star.
He then enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. As a kid, I passed his house and the adjacent studio—a small red barn nestled on the edge of a meadow—every day on my walk home from the school bus. One of the prints from this era—a celebration of red, white, and blue—appears on the cover of the Summer 1966 issue of The Paris Review. Sign up for the Paris Review newsletter and keep up with news, parties, readings, and more. Warns Iraq It Is Preparing to Shut Down Baghdad Embassy, A Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy Was Caught On Video Repeatedly Striking A Protester With A Riot Shield, Joe Montana and wife thwart kidnapping of 9-month-old grandchild from their home, Global coronavirus death toll passes one million, retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Times’ Trump Tax Returns Investigation: 18 Revelations, Ransomware Attacks Take On New Urgency Ahead of Vote, Trump pushes back on NYT report that he paid $750 in federal income tax for 2016, Trump paid just $750 in income taxes in 2016, per NYT bombshell, Trump calls NYT report on tax avoidance ‘totally fake news’. At the same time, he began producing geometric works that he called triads and quadrants, whose dazzling, kaleidoscopic colors verged on Op Art.