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Julian Stanczak

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Julian Stanczak (1928 - 2017) was active/lived in Ohio / Poland, Europe. Julian Stanczak is known for Op-art, colorist painting, corporate murals.

Art & Design, The New York Times, Julian Stanczak, Abstract Painter, Dies at 88, By Roberta Smith, April 11, 2017

Julian Stanczak, a Polish-born American abstract painter who rose to fame as a leading figure of the popular Op Art movement but slipped into obscurity when its reputation flagged, died on March 25 at his home in Seven Hills, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb. He was 88.

His death was confirmed by his New York gallery, Mitchell-Innes & Nash. His family said that he had died after a short illness.

Mr. Stanczak was a firmly optimistic artist, despite injuries in a Soviet labor camp during World War II that rendered his dominant right arm useless. He helped name the art movement to which he was linked in 1964 when his New York debut at the Martha Jackson Gallery was titled “Julian Stanczak: Optical Paintings.”

Reviewing that exhibition in Arts magazine, Donald Judd, then an emerging Minimalist sculptor, coined the phrase Op Art in a sardonic c ... [Displaying 1000 of 11717 characters.] Artist bio

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Publications Book References: 38
Magazine References: 4

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Julian Stanczak

Magazine	Article	Date	Author	Color
Art in America	Op Art on the Street: Report from Cincinnati	February 2008	Meyer, Ruth K.	Yes
Art in America	Review of Exhibitions	June 2004	Editors, Art in America	Yes
American Art Review	The Politics of Power in Cleveland	April 2004	Berardi & Bedford	No
ARTnews	Driven to Abstraction	November 2003	Wallach, Amei	Yes

38 Book References for Julian Stanczak

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
2004	McGowan, Alison C (Editor)	Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)	1512	No
1999	Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)	Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes	3724	No
1998	McClelland, Elizabeth	Julian Stanczak Retrospective (Exhibition catalog)	0	No
1993	Bowker R R	Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)	1473	No
1992	National Gallery of Art	American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)	545	No
1990	Arnheim, R; H Rand; R Bertholf	Julian Stanczak: Decades of Light	0	No
1989	Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)	Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)	538	No
1989	Fresella-Lee, Nancy	The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art	222	Yes
1988	Columbus Museum of Art	The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art	271	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
1986	Jaques Cattell Press	Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986	1292	No
1986	Opitz, Glenn B (editor)	Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers	1081	No
1985	DuPont, Diana, K Holland	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection	402	Yes
1985	Rand, Harry	Martha Jackson Memorial Collection	0	No
1982	Kranz, Les	The New York Times Art Review	0	No
1976	Baro, Gene	Josef Albers: The Pursuit of Excellence	0	No
1976	Baro, Gene	30 Years of American Printmaking Including 20th National Print Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)	160	Yes
1976	Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all	In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)	322	Yes
1975	Editor, Smithsonian	Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection	0	No
1975	Lippman, Jean	Provocative Parallels: Naive Early Americans	0	No
1975	Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman	Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries	246	No
1974	Kuh, Katherine (Foreward); Gaylord Freeman (Intro)	The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago	274	Yes
1974	Richardson, T, N. Stangos	Concepts of Modern Art	0	No
1974	University of Illinois	Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974 (Exhibition catalog)	136	No
1971	Barrett, Cyril	An Introduction to Optical Art	0	No
1970	Bates, Kenneth	Basic Design	0	No
1970	Mendelowitz, Daniel	A History of American Art	0	No
1970	Weinhardt, Carl J Jr (editor)	Indianapolis Museum of Art Catalogue of American Paintings	166	No
1968	Albright-Knox Art Gallery	Plus by Minus, Today's Half Centu (Exhibition catalog)	88	No
1968	Schinneller, James	Art/Search & Self Discovery	0	No
1968	Weller, Allen S	The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art	185	No
1967	Rickey, George	Constructivism: Origins and Evolution	0	No
1966	Carraher, Ronald; J Thurston	Optical Illusions and Visual Arts	0	No
1965	Seitz, William C	The Responsive Eye (Exhibition catalog)	56	Yes
1965	University of Illinois	Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)	210	No

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