During the 1940s, there was a creative zeitgeist between two proponents of Expressionist painting, Irving Kriesberg and Jackson Pollock. Pollock's circular painting, aptly titled Circle (c. 1938-41), and Kriesberg's series of 'wheel' paintings (c. 1946-1948) share specific affinities that speak to each artist's interests connecting Expressionism with non-European modes of art.
Read moreFeatured work: "Blue Stockings" 1975
Irving Kriesberg, “Blue Stockings,” 1975, Oil on canvas, 53 5/8 x 67 1/4 in. (136.2 x 170.8 cm) Collection of the Estate of Irving Kriesberg, New York
Painted in 1975, this work features “one of the most insistent of Kriesberg’s images: a striding creature, an anthropomorphized animal or an animalesque man,” wrote historian Dore Ashton on the occasion of Kriesberg’s solo exhibition at Terry Dintenfass Gallery in 1978.
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