Theodore Halkin, Untitled, from Screen Prints 1970
Theodore Halkin
1924-
American
Alternative Name
Ted Halkin
Date
1970
Medium Specific
Color screenprint on coated off-white wove paper
Classification
Print
Dimensions
15 x 15 in. (38.1 x 38.1 cm)
Accession Number
2004.45.20.07
Biography
Chicago native Theodore Halkin received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute in 1949, and an MS from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 1952. His early paintings, inspired by cave paintings he saw while traveling in Europe, were often exhibited with the group of Chicago artists who were nicknamed the “Monster Roster” because of their fascination with morbid or mythological imagery.
Since the 1960s, as part of the initial group referred to as the Imagists, Halkin has pursued his own ideas wherever they’ve taken him, vehemently avoiding stagnation, hungry for new experiences. He has worked in many different ways, with different means. Painting, drawing, sculpting; figurative, abstract; flat, relief, 3-D; narrative, non-objective, observational.
Halkin’s most recent paintings share with his earliest work a fascination with hieroglyph-like shapes and mottled fields of muted color, though the palette is overall less subdued and the forms less abstract.
(http://www.corbettvsdempsey.com/artists/ted-halkin/, 2020)
Since the 1960s, as part of the initial group referred to as the Imagists, Halkin has pursued his own ideas wherever they’ve taken him, vehemently avoiding stagnation, hungry for new experiences. He has worked in many different ways, with different means. Painting, drawing, sculpting; figurative, abstract; flat, relief, 3-D; narrative, non-objective, observational.
Halkin’s most recent paintings share with his earliest work a fascination with hieroglyph-like shapes and mottled fields of muted color, though the palette is overall less subdued and the forms less abstract.
(http://www.corbettvsdempsey.com/artists/ted-halkin/, 2020)
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