595:"The "Return of the Figure" means many things. Back it comes in William Clutz' strangely moving paintings at the David Herbert Gallery ... " This revival is characterized by three major exhibitions: "The Emerging Figure", Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas, 1961; "Recent Painting USA: The Figure", Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1962; and "The Figure in Contemporary American Painting", American Federation of Arts (travelling), 1960-61,"The Figure-International", American Federation of Arts (travelling),1965-66 which all include works by Clutz.
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Bloomfield's review, "Somber Artist Gets on Whimsy Wagon", San Francisco Sun, 1967, and also Thomas Albright's review, "Recent Openings: William Clutz", S.F. Chronicle, Apr. 13, 1967, he writes: "Charcoal drawings of exceptional accomplishment and force, Triangle Gallery, 576 Sutter Street".
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proponent of abstract figuration. His paintings focus on human figures within the urban environment, often exposing the transfiguration of his subjects as they travel through the complex light of city streets or summer parks, as shown in two of his early works, "Figures, 1960" and "Summer Park, 1960".
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Alfred H. Barr Jr. writes: "It is therefore not surprising to discover young painters concerned once more with "the figure" as an organizing principle. The sudden prominence, in the work of the children of the de
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Doorway ca. 1962, in the Lois Orswell Coll. at the Fogg Museum, Harvard University; Clutz, Drawing, 1964 Coll. at the Guggenheim Museum; Clutz, Drawing, Coll. at the Museum of Modern Art; Clutz, Light on a Dark Street, Francis Lehman Loeb Museum, Vassar College; and
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His participation in this local artistic community was displayed by his inclusion of "Tompkins Square" (ca. 1956) in "The
Gathering of the Avant-Garde: The Lower East Side 1950-1970", at the Kenkeleba House, 1984. For images of Tompkins Square, see his paintings in the Hirshhorn Museum, such as
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Alexander, a young contemporary print publisher and dealer, asked Clutz to create a colored print. After Clutz produced a series of large pastels, Alexander agreed to show them in his gallery. . He continued to sell Clutz's pastels throughout the 1970s. Clutz produced some hand
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America, Feb 1998. "… Clutz is nothing short of brilliant in the way he manages with exactness to capture New York light …". Bloomfield, Arthur, Review, San Francisco Sun, 1967. " draws with a free but meaningful hand, catching the Manhattan winter scene in an
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Since the late 1950s, Mr. Clutz has been painting the street life of New York, simplifying its complexity to the brink of abstraction. The canvasses in this five-decade survey call to mind Edward Hopper's romantic nostalgia and Alex Katz's suave
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between Avenues B and C near Tompkins Square Park, the subject of several of his early works. He supported his painting career by working a number of part-time jobs. In 1957, he briefly took classes at the Art Students League in Manhattan.
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revolutionary impulse of contemporary American painting has run its course." See also: The Emerging Figure: Contemporary Arts Museum, May–June, 1961. Houston, Texas: The Museum, 1961.
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