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Sidney Gross

Sidney Gross (1921 - 1969) was active/lived in New York.  Sidney Gross is known for Modernist figure and non objective painting, teaching.

Bernard Schiff, later to become curator of the Smithsonian collection, wrote in The New York Post, "of the mature, seasoned and genuine painters … who have been working in the non objective mode for some considerable years, one who strikes me consistently as being of major size and substance is Sidney Gross."

"There is a concentration here of what I must call - paying proper respect to the words - a notable beauty; they are works of heroic force. Gross' colors are magnificent. It is not a simple question of how they look but what, in a deeper sense, they do to the mind. They activate sensation and emotion; they stimulate thought and beyond that, connection and feeling. It is senseless to attempt in specific language to describe them, since one cannot really speak of the colors by themselves. They are not to be separated from the force of the shapes, symbols, motion and, indeed events which they describe and in their effect are. Gross' paintings are dramas and sagas of ex   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5296 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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