Edvins Strautmanis (1933-1992)
Strautmanis's art developed from the gestural, emotionally charged style of the Abstract Expressionists and was particularly influence by Franz Kline. Strautmanis, known for his slashing, oversized calligraphic imagery, worked as often with paint-laden brooms applied to canvas on the floor as much as he did with paintbrushes. He created brushwork of enormous, almost engulfing scale, whose intimations of violence were often softened by the artist's rich and complex sense of color.
Though Strautmanis was born in Latvia, he immigrated to Chicago in the 1950s. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and began exhibiting his work in 1965. He moved to New York in 1970 and was represented by LoGiudice Gallery, the Allan Stone Gallery and Rosenberg+Kaufman Fine Art.
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Paintings
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North of South 1985
Acrylic on Canvas
55 5/8 x 48 inches |
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Why Not 1987 Acrylic on Canvas
86 x 77 inches |
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Untitled (Abstraction) 1982
Acrylic on Canvas
27 x 22 inches
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Works on Paper
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Before 1990
Ink and Acrylic on Monotype
36 x 24 inches
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Rooster and Sirena V 1990
Ink and Acrylic on Monotype
36 x 48 inches (diptych)
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Girl Playing with Rooster 1989
Ink and Acrylic on Monotype
24 x 36 inches |
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Rooster Black 1989
Ink and Acrylic on Monotype
36 x 24 inches |
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Grand Rooster 1989
Ink and Acrylic on Monotype
36 x 24 inches
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Sea Blue Green 1990
Ink and Acrylic on Monotype
36 x 24 inches |
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Orpheo 1990
Ink and Acrylic on Monotype
36 x 24 inches |
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Untitled 1990
Ink and Acrylic on Monotype
36 x 24 1/2 inches |
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