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Seymour Boardman

Seymour Boardman (1921 - 2005) was active/lived in New York.  Seymour Boardman is known for Abstract expressionist painting.

Seymour Boardman majored in art at City College, N.Y. in 1938-1942.  He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1942-1946, during which he was hospitalized for over a year due to a wound to his left shoulder, which resulted in partial paralysis of the arm and hand.

After a full medical discharge from the service in 1946, he left for Paris to continue his art education at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Acadèmie de la Grand Chaumière, and Atelier Fernand Leger.  Boardman's work became more abstract but still based on figure and landscape.

He returned to New York in 1949 and went to the Art Students League.  Boardman continued to paint dark, moody paintings using a limited palette of black, white, grey, and an occasional additional color.  In 1955, he had his first one-man show in New York at the Martha Jackson Gallery.  It was favorably reviewed by Hilton Kramer, Emily Genauer, Fairfield Porter, and others. "…inscrutable, dark, mostly in bla   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4825 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Seymour Boardman


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
Art MediaArt StyleGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Europe
Art School
  • Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris, Student
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Abstraction Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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