Howard Mehring Original Abstract Expressionism Hard-edge Washinton Color School Magna Acrylic 2 Painting Set 1968
Original abstract expressionist magna acrylic on canvas, geometric abstraction paintings, (a set of two), by American artist Howard Mehring (1931-1978). Howard Mehring was associated with the Washington Color School, Colorfield Painting, Hard-edge, as well as his affiliation with other artists at the Jefferson Place Gallery. The paintings are the same measurements, (24" X 24" square), and are current without a frame. The paintings are signed by the artist in several places, verso, as well as engraved into the canvas. The year of creation as estimated to be 1968, and there are one to two notations verso that bear this year. Both paintings in the set are in good condition, with very minor flaws, if any. All paint is original to the paintings.
Howard Mehring was twentieth century expressionism artist born in Washington, DC. In 1971, Robert Gates and Howard Mehring both received grants from The Woodward Foundation to travel to Europe in 1971 to broaden their background in art. Mehring's connection with Vincent Melzac was instrumental on developing his work. Early in Mehring's career, (1956-1958), he shared studio space with Thomas Downing, with whom he had been a student of Kenneth Noland at Catholic University. Some of their paintings from that era bear a very similar style.
Mehring's early work is a "Washington version" of abstract expressionism. Mehring used magna paint, an acrylic paint developed by Leonard Boccour.
As Mehring matured as an arrist, his work became more structured. He used some of these same forms later to nake Hard-edge paintings such as Chroma Double from 1965, in the art collection of The Honolulu Museum of Art.
Mehring and other Washington School painters were prominently featured in the writings of Clement Greenberg. Greenberg included Mehring in his traveling museum exhibition titled Post-painterly Abstraction, in 1964.
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