American Cubist Gouache & Pastel Portrait Painting of Robert Lerner Chicago by Michael Hurson 1980

American cubist portrait painting of the American academic Michael Lerner, by the Modernist artist Michael Hurson (1941-2007).
This whimsical portrait is painted in the cubist style and is of the American academic & medieval historian professor Robert Lerner,
the composition is in pencil and charcoal with pastel & gouache on handmade paper. 
Michael Hurson was a modernist, innovative painter and sculptor whose styles ranged from Cubism to Pop Art, this work is signed lower left, the Chicago based Dart Gallery label to the verso.
The painting is in the original hardwood frame and under plexiglass, condition is very good, this striking work of art is ready to hang on your wall.

Michael Hurson (b. 1942, Chicago, IL, d. 2007, New York) exhibited with the gallery from the 1970s until his untimely death. Regarded as an “artist’s artist,” Hurson used his considerable gift for figurative drawing and his wit and humor to create works that seemed aimed at deflating the seriousness with which much painting was imbued up to that time. His drawings, paintings, sculptures and texts constantly mirrored his personal life, as he painted and drew the people and objects around him. Hurson’s work was the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1973) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1974), and he was featured in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 1978 “New Image Painting” exhibition, which presciently identified a mode of representational painting that was informed by the spatial and expressive concerns of abstraction. Hurson’s works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Two posthumous exhibitions have helped to provide a retrospective look at his oeuvre: “Remembering Michael Hurson – Paintings and Works on Paper,” at the Fisher Landau Center for Art (2007), and “Michael Hurson” at the PARC Foundation (2008). He had several exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York

The painting at sight without frame 24" x 19"

Imperial

33.75 inches high × 25.75 inches wide × 1.75 inches deep

Metric

high × wide x deep

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