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Artists›Gregory Amenoff

Gregory Amenoff

1948

Saint Charles, IL, United States

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Gregory Amenoff is an American painter working in organic abstraction, a mode he has pursued since the early 1980s alongside contemporaries Bill Jensen, Katherine Porter, and Terry Winters. His formal lineage traces to early American modernists Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Burchfield, Milton Avery, Arthur Dove, and Marsden Hartley, painters who derived abstraction from natural observation and biomorphic form. Amenoff's canvases emphasize the gestural and chromatic possibilities of landscape-derived imagery, working without literal representation.

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Earthworm (plate, folio 65 verso) from A Bestiary

1990 · Linoleum cut from an illustrated book with twenty-nine linoleum cuts (two with pochoir and two with letterpress) and seven woodcuts

composition: 8 7/8 × 4 5/16" (22.5 × 10.9 cm); page: 14 13/16 × 10 13/16" (37.6 × 27.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Elephant (plate, folio 11 verso) from A Bestiary

1990 · Linoleum cut from an illustrated book with twenty-nine linoleum cuts (two with pochoir and two with letterpress) and seven woodcuts

composition (irreg.): 5 13/16 × 6 11/16" (14.8 × 17 cm); page: 14 13/16 × 10 13/16" (37.6 × 27.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Celadon

1985 · Oil on canvas

8' 4 1/8" x 8' 4 1/8" (254.3 x 254.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Medanales Group II

1985 · Synthetic polymer paint, ink, oilstick, pastel, and pencil on paper

31 x 30" (78.5 x 76.2 cm)

Composition: 36 3/8 x 32 1/16" (92.4 x 81.4 cm)

88 x 100 in. (223.5 x 254 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Study for "Unrest II"

1981 · Oilstick, pastel, chalk, colored pencil, ink, graphite, and metallic paint on paper

34 × 25 in. (86.4 × 63.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Beloit College

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