Interactive Timeline of Ary's Artwork

Representational

Palestine Watercolors

Morocco Drawings

Early Abstracts

New York Folio

Drawings

Prints

Early Mexican

Gouaches

Houston-
Cuernavaca

Leyendas

Leyendas (1963-1965)

Private Collection

It was in the summer of 1963 that Ary gave up gouaches for the most part and embarked on a series of exciting canvases, which he called "Leyendas" (Legends). They had marvelous movement and each represented a world of fantasy —a pagan world, but permeated with glimpses of Egyptian, Byzantine, Coptic, Italian — every kind of culture, which had intrigued him during his lifetime. Manny Greer of the Greer Galleries in New York came down to Mexico that summer and paid a visit to Ary and his wife, Frances. He was wildly enthusiastic about the new canvases. He said he had been combing the studios of Mexican painters and here, in the studio of a veteran American painter, he found the essence of pre-Columbian Mexico that the others lacked. But Ary was adamant about not exhibiting. He had strength only to paint, he said. To be involved in exhibiting would drain too much of the precious store of energy.

Group with Little Prince
Group with
Little Prince

c. 1963-1965,
acrylic on canvas,
15 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.,
[Private Collection]
Incantation
Incantation
1963,
acrylic on canvas,
18 1/4 x 24 in.,
[Private Collection]
Mediaeval Symbols
Mediaeval Symbols,
Musical Manuscript

c. 1963-1965,
acrylic on canvas,
18 x 22 in.,
[Private Collection]
Moving Figures, Procession
Moving Figures #1,
Procession

1963,
acrylic on canvas,
15 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.,
[Private Collection]

 

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Ary Stillman: From Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism

From Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism Edited by James Wechsler Foreword by Donald Kuspit

Upcoming Exhibition

Ary Stillman
(1891-1967):
Spirits of the Underworld

Spirits of Underworld

Van Deren Coke Gallery
at the University of
New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque

October 7-December 2, 2008

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