RARE! Catalog 1956 1st MAJOR New York Show PAUL JENKINS Start Price USD 79.99 Current Price USD 79.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, November 03, 2008 End Time Friday, December 26, 2008 Location Los Angeles, CA See more about 'RARE! Catalog 1956 1st MAJOR New York Show PAUL JENKINS' Description E N T H U S I A S T ART BOOKS & FINE ART We purchase Artist Estates as well as art libraries and our goal is to provide, through eBay, a constantly replenished veritable "candystore" of rare and out-of-print books, catalogs and fine art for the lover of American & European prints and paintings... The item you are bidding on is: Oils by Paul Jenkins, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1956. 8vo size softcover, Very Good condition, 8 pages, First Edition. A lovely copy of this extremely scarce exhibition catalog. Five b/w illustrations. 16 oil paintings and 6 drawings catalogued. 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It is possible that in some cases a similar courtesy can be extended for international shipments, but, because of the Post Office limitations on package size, weight, content etc., an international buyer must contact us in ADVANCE to confirm whether any such courtesy may be extended for the particular items desired. WE THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR PATRONAGE OVER THE PAST MANY YEARS! About this well listed artist : Biography from AskART: Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Paul Jenkins was early associated with Abstract Expressionism and noted for his experimentation with pouring paint onto canvases and for heavily impastoed, illuminated oil and watercolor paintings with spiritual, metaphysical qualities that set him apart from many of his peers. Zen Buddhism and the writing of Carl Jung much influenced the spiritual direction of his painting. As a teenager Paul Jenkins worked in a ceramics factory where he learned about color variations and form. Precocious in his art abilities, he became a student at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1937 to 1942, when he was ages 14 to 18. His interest in and talent for theater earned him a fellowship to the Cleveland Playhouse, and then he went to the Drama School of the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. From 1943 to 1945, he served in the U.S. Naval Air Corps during World War II. Then determining to be an artist, he went to New York City where he studied at the Art Students League from 1948 to 1952 and was influenced the most by instructors Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor. Later, becoming a teacher he was at the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts in 1986. In 1953, he went to Paris where he has lived for long periods of time alternating with New York City. He first studied at the American Artists Center where he began his experiments with pouring paint on canvas in various thicknesses to create a sense of dynamism in the process itself. For him, each work became a spiritual journey of discovery, and his exposure of white canvas combined with color saturations gave a sense of illumination about his work. A 1966 film, "The Ivory Knife: Paul Jenkins at Work," focused on his life and his working techniques. Jenkins also became a lithographer, and many of these works as well as his early paintings reflected his interest in mysticism and his belief that his work was god inspired. In 1963, influenced by Wolfgang Wols and Mark Tobey, he began to layer pigment by pouring it in various thicknesses and designs. Fluidity and flow of paint inspired by mood characterized these paintings suggesting that the earth and its inhabitants are in a constant state of change. Place a Bid!