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Raymond Parker

American, (1922–1990)
Raymond Parker was an Abstract expressionist painter who also is associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. Parker was an influential art teacher and an important Color Field painter and an instrumental figure in the movement coined by art critic Clement Greenberg called Post-Painterly Abstraction. During the 1940s his paintings were heavily influenced by cubism. In the early 1950s, however, Parker became associated with the leading abstract expressionists of the day, including Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Parker soon began to simplify and refine his works realizing that through abstraction, and color his paintings could convey and express emotion. By the late 1950s, he taught at Hunter College in New York City and he developed a singular style of painting that focused on intense color and simple geometric shapes. He is best known by his work of the late 1950s early 1960s called his Simple Paintings. These paintings are characterized by discreet cloudlike forms of clear, and intense color set against a white or an off-white background. Parker’s paintings utilizing this method of stacked, clearly colored lozenges and floating forms are straightforward and basically geometric in shape.


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