5/11/09

New works from Alnewbill - TRA Gallery Troy

Al Newbill: New Acquisitions
A selection of large oil paintings
by Abstract Expressionist Al Newbill.
May 5 - June 4, 2009
TRA ART Group

TRA will be exhibiting the 12 new paintings in suite 27 down the hall

from their space in the Michigan Design Center.

For more information on the exhibit, traartnews.blogspot.com

Al Newbill was born on January 13, 1921, in Springfield, Missouri. Although born in Missouri, Al Newbill was primarily raised in Detroit. His first painting at the age of twelve, was a copy of Winslow Homer’s "The Gulf Stream." While attending Cass Tech High School, he concurrently enrolled in courses at Detroit’s Art Museum. Additionally he studied at the Society of Arts and Crafts, currently known as The College for Creative Studies.After serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, Newbill headed for New York where he studied at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art, and the New School of Social Research, where he studied Painting, Aesthetics, Psychology of Art, Art History, Art Criticism, and Chinese Art and Poetry. He remained in New York for fifteen years amid the exciting atmosphere generated by the Abstract Expressionists, one of the most important movements in 20th century American painting.

Among his acquaintances were Franz Kline, William de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock.Originating at Queens College, the lure of teaching eventually took Newbill away from New York to the Universities of Southern Illinois, University of California, Berkeley, Kansas, and Cornell. He then became the director of the art program for the Rodman Job Corp in New Bedford Massachusetts. He finally moved to the regional campus of Ohio State University in Mansfield where he taught until 1976. Newbill still resides today in Mansfield.His work has been exhibited widely at prestigious institutions and galleries across the United States and remains in the permanent collection of many.
TRA ART Group
1700 Stutz Drive
Suite 15
Troy MI 48084
248.816.1691


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