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Balcomb (John Wesley) Greene

Balcomb (John Wesley) Greene (1904 - 1990) was active/lived in New York, New Hampshire / France.  Balcomb Greene is known for Modernist seascape and figurative painting, teaching.

Balcomb Greene has been described as "an iconoclast, a painter who has refused to conform to the latest artistic trends."  This comment was apt, for Greene was an independent-minded artist who followed his own aesthetic inclinations regardless of what was in vogue among critics and the public. 

At the outset of his career, he eschewed Depression-era realism in favor of a cutting-edge geometric abstract style that set him apart from the mainstream art establishment and from many of his fellow abstractionists.  During the 1940s, when non-representational painting came into fashion, he began to incorporate the human form into his work, creating enigmatic figure paintings in which variations of light and shadow played a vital role in creating mood.
Greene was born in Millville, New York, near Niagara Falls, on 22 May 1904. The son of Bertram Greene, a Methodist minister who christened him John Wesley Greene, he grew up in small towns in Iowa, South D   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 19317 characters.]  Artist bio

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