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Alfred Julio Jensen

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Alfred Julio Jensen (1903 - 1981) was active/lived in New York, California / Guatemala.  Alfred Jensen is known for Minimal, pop word play, collage, mural.

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© 2001 Estate of Alfred Jensen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
 Abstractionist Alfred Julio Jensen used rich color and thick paint in geometric designs that ranged from suggestions of symbolism and abstract-expressionism to minimalism.

He was born in 1903 in Guatemala City of Danish, German and Polish heritage.  Before eventually graduating from the Fine Arts School in San Diego, Jensen had experienced various travels and vocations. From seven to fourteen years of age, he studied in Denmark, then went to sea, later farming in Guatemala.

Jensen was one of those fortunate artists who found a wealthy patron, thus relieving him of the necessity of earning a living.  He met Saidie May in Munich, Germany, where he had gone, after San Diego, to study the traditional drawing style of the masters.  He and May remained together until her death in 1951, and then Jensen became a life-long student of science, mathematics and philosophy.

His twenty-year study of Goethe's color theory resulted in diagrammatic can   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4247 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Alfred Julio Jensen

   Publications  Book References:  50
Magazine References:  6

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6 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Alfred Julio Jensen
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews Strange Comfort September 2002 Sheets, Hilarie M. Yes
ARTFORUM Reviews January 2002 Cooper, Harry No
American Art Review Jack L Blanton Museum of Art December 2001 Carlozzi, Annette; E Duganne Yes
ARTFORUM Preview September 2001 Editors, Art Forum Yes
ARTnews Reviews April 2000 Editors Yes
ARTnews Alfred Jensen May 1995 Diehl, Carol Yes
50 Book References for Alfred Julio Jensen
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Herskovic, Marika (editor) American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey 372 Yes
2000 Skold, Stacey (compiler) Art Enterprises: Selections from the Collection 195 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Demetrion, James T (Introduction) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art 166 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel Word As Image American Art 1960-1990
(Exhibition catalog)		 172 Yes
1990 Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro) American Painting 319 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1989 Rotzler, Willy Constructive Concepts:A History Constructive Art from Cubism to the Present 332 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Sandler, Irving American Art of the 1960s 412 Yes
1987 Belz, Carl;Beth Goldberg Postwar Paintings from Brandeis University From Brandeis University (Rose Art Museum)
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Krane, Susan Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972 379 Yes
1987 Sandler, Irving The Empire State Collection Art for the Public 214 Yes
1986 Rose Art Museum Rose Art Museum Selected 20th Century Paintings 147 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1984 Chicago, Museum Contemporary Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Selections from Permanent Collection 164 Yes
1984 Naumann, Francis M Mary and William Sisler Collectio
(Exhibition catalog)		 324 Yes
1984 Severinghaus, J Walter Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection 333 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 301 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1980 Barnett, Vivian Endicott The Guggenheim Museum Collection Handbook/ 1900-1980 526 Yes
1980 Castleman, Riva Printed Art: A View of Two Decades 144 Yes
1980 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies
(Exhibition catalog)		 88 Yes
1979 Cathcart, Linda L American Painting of the 1970s
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
1979 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro) Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
(Exhibition catalog)		 298 Yes
1979 Krauss, Rosalind E Grids Format and Image in 20th Century Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1978 Cathcart, Linda/Marcia Tucker Alfred Jensen Paintings and Diagrams 1957-1977
(Exhibition catalog)		 97 Yes
1978 Sandler, Irving The New York School The Painters & Sculptors of the Fifties 366 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Whitney Museum 1977 Biennial Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Milwaukee Art Center From Foreign Shores Three Centuries...Foreign Born American Masters
(Exhibition catalog)		 186 Yes
1976 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum Acquisition Priorities Aspects of Postwar Painting in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1971 Calas, Nicolas and Elena Icons and Images of the Sixties 347 No
1968 Albright-Knox Art Gallery Plus by Minus, Today's Half Centu
(Exhibition catalog)		 88 No
1967 Hirsch, Richard Sources for Tomorrow: 50 American Paintings 1946-1966 James Michener Collection of Allentown Art Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1965 Drawing Society Drawing Society National Exhibiti 1965
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 No
1964 Rosenberg, Harold The Anxious Object Art Today and Its Audience 272 No
1963 Brandeis University New Directions in American Painting: A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1962 Gordon, John Geometric Abstraction in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1961 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists
(Exhibition catalog)		 1961 No
Cooke and Anfam(essays) Alfred Jensen
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
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