Walter Feldman,
American b.1925 -2017-
 
Untitled Abstract, 1967;
 
oil on...

Walter Feldman,
American b.1925 -2017-

Untitled Abstract, 1967;

oil on paper, signed and dated 1967 lower left; inscribed with best wishes and good fortune Walter Feldman on the reverse, 76x56.5cm (unframed)

Provenance: Acquired from the artist

Note: Walter Feldman was a twentieth-century American artist who was known for his paintings, woodcuts, and larger-scale public installations of stained glass and mosaics. Feldman studied at the Yale School of Art in the 1940s under artists such as Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers. After graduating from Yale University School of Design he began teaching art at Brown University, where he became Professor of Art in 1961.

Feldmans output was informed by trips to Europe, encountering the arts of France and Italy as part of the Alice Kimball English Travelling Fellowship, which he was awarded in 1950, and working in Rome upon receiving a Senior Fulbright Scholarship in 1957. This was followed by travels to Spain, Turkey, and Israel, where he studied the production of mosaics. Feldman has won a number of prestigious awards for his artworks, including a gold medal for a self-portrait which he exhibited at Milans Mostra International, and a print prize from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Feldmans works have been exhibited extensively since his first solo exhibition, which was held at the Artists Gallery in New York in 1953. His artworks are held in a number of significant collections across the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.