FRIEDEL DZUBAS "BLACK TONDO" MONOTYPE, 1982Friedel Dzubas (1915 1994) was a Berlin born, American abstract painter and a key artist associated with both the New York School and the Color Field movement. Dzubas studied art in Germany before fleeing the Nazis in 1939 and settling in New York City. During the 1940s, Dzubas circulated with some of the leading abstract painters in the city's vital art scene, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Katherine Dreier. Dzubas

Embodying nature's vitality

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

see another example from over 20 years later here

going over each letter with a heavy hand

Bold and accessible

but was most memorably depicted by Robert Mapplethorpe who created a series of over 200 images of the model

and the Princeton University Art Museum (New Jersey)

Diagonal bands were a frequently employed motif of his

Scherman has created a striking body of work that often portrays the female form

as evident here

flirting with the absurd

71"H 15"W (framed)