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Stanley Boxer

Stanley Robert Boxer (1926 - 2000) was active/lived in New York.  Stanley Boxer is known for Abstract impasto painting, sculpture, printmaking.

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The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.

Stanley Boxer was born in New York City in 1925.  He drew obsessively as a child, often sketching the cowboys and Indians he saw in movies.  He entered the Navy at the age of sixteen to fight in World War II. 

After the war his older brother encouraged him to apply to the Art Students League, where an instructor told him he had talent and ought to start taking classes immediately.  He won a fellowship from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.  He became a noted painter and sculptor but preferred being known as a 'practitioner' because he believed that constant practice was the only way to excel at art.   

The titles of Boxer's works were deliberately ambiguous; his titles were attempts at verbal equivalents of the painted gesture.  He was known for troweling on pigment, using his fingers, brushes a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10412 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Stanley Boxer

   Publications  Book References:  15
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Stanley Boxer
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Clem's Cache November 2001 Taylor, Sue Yes
Art & Auction The Flat Pack January 2001 Vincent, Steven Yes
Art & Antiques Going to Town November 1998 Rawlings, Irene Yes
15 Book References for Stanley Boxer
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
2002 Wilkin, Karen (essay) Remembering Stanley Boxer 1926-2000 20 Yes
2001 Wilkin, Karen and Bruce Guenther Clement Greenburg: A Critic's Collection Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1992 Belz, Carl Stanley Boxer-45 Years
(Exhibition catalog)
42 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
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