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Jay DeFeo (31 March 1929 – 11 November 1989) was a visual artist who became celebrated in the 1950s as part of the spirited community of Beat artists, musicians, and poets in San Francisco. Best known for her monumental work The Rose , DeFeo produced courageously experimental works throughout her career, exhibiting what art critic Kenneth ...
- Painting
- The Rose
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- Mary Joan DeFeo, March 31, 1929, Hanover, New Hampshire
Jay DeFeo: Photographic Work. A new monograph published by DelMonico Books • D.A.P. A revelatory trove of innovative photographs, photo collages, photograms, and photocopies, with over 150 images, most reproduced at the size Jay DeFeo printed them. Edited and with an introduction by Leah Levy. Essays by Hilton Als, Judith Delfiner, Corey ...
An Overview of Jay DeFeo’s Life and Art. Jay DeFeo was born in 1929 in Hanover, New Hampshire, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received a bachelor’s degree in 1950 and a master’s degree in 1951, both in studio art, from the University of California, Berkeley. Upon graduation, she was awarded a fellowship and traveled from ...
Jay DeFeo (31 March 1929 – 11 November 1989) was a visual artist who became celebrated in the 1950s as part of the spirited community of Beat artists, musicians, and poets in San Francisco. Best known for her monumental work The Rose, DeFeo produced courageously experimental works throughout her career, exhibiting what art critic Kenneth ...
Mar 27, 2024 · Jay DeFeo (born March 31, 1929, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.—died November 11, 1989, Oakland, California) American painter, sculptor, and jewelry maker associated with Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. She is best known for her masterpiece titled The Rose, a work that took her eight years to complete. DeFeo grew up in the San Francisco ...
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Jan 23, 1976 · The Rose. The Rose, 1958-66. oil on canvas with wood and mica. 128 7/8 x 92 1/4 x 11 inches (327.3 x 234.3 x 27.9 cm) JDF no. E1000. Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Rarely is an artist so closely associated with a single work as is Jay DeFeo with her monumental painting The Rose. Begun in the late 1950s, when DeFeo, a central ...
Jun 8, 2015 · Jay DeFeo began this monumental work simply as an “idea that had a center to it.” Initially, the painting measured approximately 9 x 7 feet and was called Deathrose, but in 1959, the artist transferred the work onto a larger canvas with the help of friends. She continued to work on The Rose for the next seven years, applying thick paint, then chiseling it away, inserting wooden dowels to ...
