This Figurative Expressionist lived the Bay Area for two decades before settling in Greenwich Village in 1957. He was a regular at the Cedar Bar with his AbEx friends and exhibited at several New York galleries. He even taught at MoMA but soon became a reclusive painter living what he called “a...
Finally revealed is this extraordinary double life: Walk into any drugstore and you’ll see his commercial packaging designs that have become iconic in American culture. But for more than 60 years he was also pushing the boundaries of abstract expressionist painting.
This master of collage obsessively changes his compositions, as revealed by layers of canvas fragments and a variety of mediums. The resulting lyrical abstract shorescapes subtly suggest those places that have evoked in him particular moods. Jack Welch, the legendary former CEO of General Electric,...
The dean of American art historians, Dr. William Innes Homer, concluded that the discovery of the Pinajian collection presents one of the most compelling discoveries in the history of twentieth century American art: “Even though Pinajian was a creative force to be reckoned with, during his...
