Henry Pearson Hand Signed Publisher Proof Lithograph:"Lagonda"

Artist: Henry Pearson
Title: Lagonda
Size: " x "
Edition : Publisher Proof
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1980
Artist Biography: Henry Pearson (b. 1914) is perhaps best known for a mildly optical manner of painting, featuring a mutable labyrinth of undulating parallel lines, which somewhat inadvertently linked him to the Op Art movement of the 1960s. Although included in the Museum of Modern Art's landmark exhibition The Responsive Eye in 1965, his work displays an intuitive rhythm and poetic elegance that falls well outside of the calculated, often hard-edged quality normally associated with the Op group of artists. Pearson came late to the visual arts. His first career, in theatre design, was cut short by the Second World War. He entered the U.S. Army in 1942, and at war's end requested duty in occupied Japan, where a prolonged contact with Japanese culture nurtured a passion for painting. Upon his discharge from the army, in 1953, he enrolled in the Art Students League in New York City, where he studied with, among others, Reginald Marsh and Will Barnet. Inspired by Malevich, he turned to rectilinear abstraction, and employed it as the dominant means of expression in his painting between 1954 and 1961. As early as 1959, however, sensing an incipient decadence in his geometric canvases, Pearson began to develop a new direction in his work. During the war, he served for a year in Culver City, California, where his interpretive drawings of secret imperial maps were employed to construct three-dimensional scale models of the Japanese islands. Recalling the hypnotic movement of those earlier efforts, he produced a series of exploratory sketches, first in pencil and then in ink, which over a period of several years gradually transformed illusionary mountains and valleys into purely non-objective exercises. By 1961 these drawings, reflecting a personal vision now well removed from any topographical transcription, heralded a new era of linear abstraction in Pearson's work. Quickly celebrated as well on canvas and in print, the idea became central to his oeuvre for the next fifteen years, a period which coincided with his rise to some prominence in the New York art world.
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