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Frederick Hammersley

American
(1919–2009)

Up In
1961

Oil on canvas
17.125 x 12.375 x 1.5 in.
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
2002.29

Up in #2 consists of two white circles on gold and black rectangles. Tension is created where the black and gold squares meet. Hammersley had a similar work in the Four Abstract Classicists exhibition titled Unlike (1959). The use of the two circles and rectangles was a theme he explored consistently throughout his career.

While serving as an Army sergeant in World War II from 1942-45, Hammersley was stationed in Paris; after he was discharged in 1945, he took the opportunity to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. During this time, he began experimenting with abstract imagery. By the late 1940s, he had systematically reduced traditional imagery into simple, flat, colored, and patterned shapes. In 1959, curator Jules Langsner selected Hammersley to be one of the artists in the Four Abstract Classicists exhibition.

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Up in #2 se compone de dos círculos blancos sobre rectángulos dorados y negros. La tensión se crea donde se unen los cuadrados negro y dorado. Hammersley tenía una obra similar en la exposición Four Abstract Classicists titulada Unlike (1959). El uso de los dos círculos y rectángulos fue un tema que exploró constantemente a lo largo de su carrera.

Mientras servía como sargento del Ejército en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, entre 1942 y 1945, Hammersley fue destinado a París; después de ser dado de baja en 1945, aprovechó la oportunidad para estudiar en la École des Beaux-Arts. También visitó los estudios de Picasso, Brancusi y Cezanne. Durante este tiempo, empezó a experimentar con la imaginería abstracta. A finales de la década de 1940, había reducido sistemáticamente la imaginería tradicional a formas simples, planas, coloreadas y estampadas. A su regreso al sur de California, comenzó a dar clases por toda la región, incluso en el Pomona College de Claremont entre 1953 y 1962. Mientras enseñaba allí, Hammersley conoció a Karl Benjamin, estudiante de la Claremont Graduate School, así como a John McLaughlin y Lorser Feitelson. En 1959, el curador Jules Langsner seleccionó a Hammersley como uno de los artistas de la exposición Four Abstract Classicists.

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