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Brice Marden (1938) 
Professions: Painter
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Brice Marden , b. 1938 Glyphs oil on canvas
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Brice Marden (B. 1938)
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Brice Marden (b. 1938)
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Brice Marden b. 1938 Diagrammed Couplet II signed, titled and dated 1988-89 on the reverse oil on li...
Biography: Marden
(b Bronxville, NY, 15 Oct 1938). American painter and printmaker. He studied at Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts, receiving his BFA in 1961, and from 1961 to 1963 at Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, CT. Settling in New York in 1963, in the following year he produced his first single-panel monochromatic paintings, such as Decorative Painting (1964; priv. col., see 1975 exh. cat., pl. 1), through which he contributed to the emerging aesthetic of MINIMALISM. In such works he reacted against the dominance of gestural techniques in second generation Abstract Expressionism by emphasizing the subtlety of surface and colour within the spatial and structural limits of the rectangle. Bringing together the painterly quality of Abstract Expressionism with the intellectual rigours of Minimalism, Marden achieved a balance between emotional intensity and formal simplicity.
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