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Victor Thall

Victor Thall (1902 - 1983) was active/lived in New York, California.  Victor Thall is known for Expressionist, abstract Expressionist painting.

VICTOR THALL

Victor Thall belongs to that unique American brand of rugged individualist. Working closely for a time with such painters as Gorky and de Kooning, Thall wasn't content to join the burgeoning American clique of Abstract Expressionism. Instead, on the eve of its international recognition, he abandoned New York, making a worldwide tour of indigenous cultures attempting to find a solution to the crisis of abstraction.
 
Thall felt that painting needed to communicate in a way that Abstract Expressionism could not.  Using parts of its vocabulary, Thall created work that was modern in spirit but based on fundamental traditions that he believed connected the whole history of art.  In this way he resembled his contemporary Max Beckman, and it is fitting that Thall was chosen with Beckman by The New Yorker art critic Robert Coates as the best painter of the 1949 Whitney Annual.

Fiercely uncompromising in his opinions, Thall sadly fell into   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5364 characters.]  Artist bio

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