Fuller Potter

Joseph Wiltsie Fuller Potter Jr. (April 24, 1910 – 1990) was an American Abstract expressionist artist. He was born in New York City in 1910, attended St. Bernard's School in New York and Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts, and lived most of his moving picture in his Ledyard, Connecticut estate, near Old Mystic. Potter started painting in the standard modes of representation, specializing in yet life and landscape. His pretense was shown in New York in the 1930s at the Marie Harriman Gallery.

Potter spent several of his formative years painting landscapes and portraits in the Southern Appalachia region, later studying painting in Paris behind André Lhote from 1929 to 1931, and in New York in the same way as Walt Kuhn and in the reveal of Thomas Hart Benton. In 1950, Potter met Jackson Pollock and distorted his mode of painting all the time to abstraction, and had a number of shows of that body of put-on at the Mystic Gallery in Mystic, Connecticut. When starting his transition towards abstract painting, he summative his graphic skills in the same way as his mastery of color, and followed a passageway that would plus to his artistic peak, during his full abstract expressionist period.

During the 1940s, Potter's play-act was yet mostly figurative, but showed deliberate avoidance of ordinary representation. From the early 1950s on, Potter's style kept taking into account the in front works of Ad Reinhardt and in the publicize of Jackson Pollock's 1940s pre-drip works. He painted in the "New York School" style, along considering several of his contemporaries, including Franz Kline (1910–1962), Joan Mitchell (1925–1992), Jean-Paul Riopelle, William Baziotes (1910–1963), and Jackson Pollock (1912–1956). He had a few shows in that style at several New England art venues. The Museum of the City of New York exhibited Potter's put it on along subsequent to Joan Miró and Georgia O'Keeffe in the main lobby in 1959.

Jeffrey Potter's To a Violent Grave, a biography of Jackson Pollock's last years, reports that Potter shared drinking sessions behind Pollock in the mid-1950s. After these encounters, which occupied unaided a sudden period of his life, Fuller Potter's affect evolved towards a period and personal form of abstraction. Potter never pursued the drip/throw achievement mode of abstract expressionism to any notable degree. His paint is delivered afterward loaded brush in hand, opulently, generously and aggressively.

Fuller Potter is considered one of the major abstract painters of the 20th century. He died of emphysema in May 1990 at Westerly Hospital in Westerly, Rhode Island. He was 80 years old.

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