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Ray Parker was an American artist known for his Lyrical-Abstractionist paintings. View Ray Parker’s 355 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
Ray Parker's works relate to and predict the minimalist and Color Field paintings of the 1960s, made popular by American artists such as Morris Louis, Friedel Dzubas, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, and Ellsworth Kelly.
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Since 1997, the Estate of Ray Parker has been represented by the Washburn Gallery, which has organized many Parker exhibitions from different periods throughout his life.
Raymond Parker (1922-1990) was an Abstract expressionist painter who also is associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. Ray Parker was an influential art teacher and an important Color Field painter and an instrumental figure in the movement coined by Clement Greenberg called Post-Painterly Abstraction.
Ray Parker. Featured Works. Biography. Cv. Exhibitions. Press. Back. Born: August 22, 1922, Beresford, South Dakota. Died: April 14, 1990, New York, New York. Education: BA, 1946 University of Iowa; MFA, 1948, University of Iowa. SOLO EXHIBITIONS. 1949 Rochester Art Center, Rochester.
Originally from South Dakota, Ray Parker entered the University of Iowa in Iowa City in 1940; he earned his MFA in 1948. From 1948 to 1951 he taught painting at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. During the 1940s his paintings were heavily influenced by cubism. In the early 1950s,...
