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James Hilleary

James Hilleary (1924 - 2014) was active/lived in District Of Columbia, Maryland.  James Hilleary is known for Geometric abstract and abstract expressionist painting, architecture.

Following from the website of the artist are excerpts of exhibitions reviews.


The Washington Daily News
1968
By Tom Harney
 
The walls of the Henri Gallery are emblazoned this month with the stripes of James Hilleary, a Silver Spring architect having his first one-man painting and sculpture show. Mr. Hilleary, 43, a Georgetown native, originally studied to be a concert pianist, and in the repetitive motif of these works we can hear the echo of the fugues being played. His basic image is that of a core of straight stripes compressed on both sides by angled stripes.

In the earlier paintings in the show, this image is balanced in form and subdued in color but in the more recent paintings, which are by far the best of the show, the balance is shattered and the image becomes asymmetrical and at the same time pregnant with tension.

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