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Charles Cajori

Charles Cajori

American, 1921–2013
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Mixed MediaAbstract ExpressionismExpressionismColor Field
Representation
None documented
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Institutional Exhibitions
2
Works in Collection
6
Assets Indexed
7
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
80%
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Movements
  • • Abstract Expressionism
  • • Expressionism
  • • Color Field
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About

Why this artist matters now

Charles Cajori was an American painter and printmaker whose postwar abstractions employed gestural mark-making and bold color fields. Working primarily in oil and lithography, he developed a vocabulary of energetic brushwork and layered compositional planes that engaged with the formal innovations of abstract expressionism without adhering to its dominant heroic rhetoric. His work occupied a distinctive middle position between lyrical abstraction and structured geometric intervention.

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Movement
Abstract Expressionism
Medium
Mixed Media
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Canonical record

Artworks (2)

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Images

It Rocks but is Not Sunk (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
It Rocks but is Not Sunk (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
Artsy artist portrait
Artsy
It Rocks but is Not Sunk (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Movements and affiliations

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Abstract Expressionism
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Expressionism
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Color Field
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Representation & Collections

In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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