sunset scene with darkening sky with purples and dark blues at top, with white clouds and sun at center and pale lavender and light blue above waves on water; row of brown vertical trees/foliage in foreground

%C2%A9 Estate Jules Olitski %2F Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society %28ARS%29%2C NY

Marsh at High Tide, 1998

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Jules Olitski gained fame as an abstract painter who thinned his pigments and poured them to stain the canvas. In retrospect such work was an anomaly in his career, most of his images, whether on canvas or—as here—on paper, show the physical action of the artist’s hand. He made this landscape late in his life, after the spotlight of fame had turned in other directions and critics began to pan his work. He seems to have cared little about the comments of others, “I have never felt bound by any art theory. I just try to get into the work and let it in some intense way be made.”

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Title
Marsh at High Tide
Artist Life
(born Russia), 1922-2007
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2017.95.3
Provenance
(Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida); Hella L. “Hueg” Mears (1930-2017, St. Paul)
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sunset scene with darkening sky with purples and dark blues at top, with white clouds and sun at center and pale lavender and light blue above waves on water; row of brown vertical trees/foliage in foreground

© Estate Jules Olitski / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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