Lorser feitelson biography of donald
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Lorser Feitelson
The Artist
The Feitelson / Lundeberg Art Foundation
Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles
Jack and Sandra Terner, Los Angeles (acquired from the above on January 21, 1994)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Los Angeles Art Association, Portable Murals, May 4–30, 1951
Pasadena Art Institute, Lorser Feitelson, A Retrospective, March 21–April 27, 1952, no. 36
Claremont, Scripps College Art Galleries, Paintings by Lorser Feitelson, March 1958, no. 1
Los Angeles, Paul Rivas Gallery, Anna Mahler/Lorser Feitelson, June 8–July 3, 1959, no. 2
Los Angeles, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Lorser Feitelson, A Retrospective Exhibition, August 16–September 17, 1972, no. 26, n.p.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles, The Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg: Retrospective Exhibition, October 2, 1980–May 3, 1981, no. 38, pp. 18, 68
Los Angeles Art Association Galleries and Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Lundeberg and Feitelson Together Again, February 13–March 13, 1993, no. 5
Jennifer Lee, "Six Artists Introduce Portable Murals as Contribution to Modern Living," Pasadena Star-News, May 1951 (illustrated)
Jarvis Barlow, "Art Matters," Pasadena Independent, May 27, 1951
Diane Moran, "
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I don’t see or think about it nearly enough, but I’ve been fascinated by Lorser Feitelson’s 1936 collaged photo/painting Life Begins for years. 1936! LACMA acquired it in 1996.
Feitelson’s later, post-war, hard-edge abstraction gets much more attention than the 1930s “Post-surrealist” works, which generally makes sense. Something like Life Begins is just so unusual is almost doesn’t fit into that bucket, either. But seeing images of it again recently made me wonder just what is going on here. I can’t find almost anything written about it, except Steve Roden’s discussion of it in the LA Times a few years ago: “On some days it feels as hermetic as ‘outsider art,’ and on others it seems the most experimental painting he ever made. I’ve been visiting this work for 25 years, and I still don’t understand it. I really love that.”
Which, it’s nice to know it’s not just me who loves it, and who’s baffled by it.
The basics:Life Begins is oil and collage on a shaped masonite panel around two feet square. The painted elements are the blue space, which often gets called a sky, and a half peach and pit on a small plate. The collage elements are two black&white photogra