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A book launch for the late American painter Hassel Smith, who exhibited at Gimpel Fils in 1960 and 1963. Smith was active as a painter from the late 1930's to the late 1990's. The principal phases of Smith´s output form a sequence of six progressions, having a recurring pattern of overlapping influence: plein-air and representational paintings of the 1940´s; abstract-expressionism of the early 50´s to mid-60´s; return to figuration and representation, 1964-70; development of hard-edge abstraction, the "measured" series, early 70´s to mid-80´s; gestural abstraction, mid-80´s to early 90´s; late abstraction, early to late 90´s.
Hassel Smith was born 1915 in Sturgis, Michigan. In 1966 he accepted a teaching position at the West of England College of Art in Bristol, where he taught until 1978. Although making frequent trips back to America, Hassel Smith based his home in England, where he died in 2007.
The survival of his reputation, is attested by this publication of a full monograph: "Hassel Smith: Paintings 1937-97", Prestel Publishing, Random House, 2012.
Full book details:
Hassel Smith: Paintings 1937-1997
Edited by Petra Giloy-Hirtz
Published by Prestel: 26th September 2012
£35 Hardback
212 pages with 90 colour illustrations
24 x 28 cm
ISBN: 978-3-7913-5107-0
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