Lot 395: Ronnie Landfield Acrylic Painting, Between Spring and Summer

Ronnie Landfield (New York, b. 1947) acrylic on canvas painting, “Between Spring and Summer,” 1990/91. White, red, and yellow fields with rigid black linear elements border at left, right, and along its lower edge a central area painted with thin, translucent washes of color. Unsigned. Housed in a giltwood frame. Canvas: 32 1/8 in H x 64 in W. Frame: 34 1/8 in H x 65 1/2 in W. Note: We wish to thank Ronnie Landfield for confirming the authorship, provenance, and dating of this painting. Biographical Note: “Since 1969, Ronnie Landfield has had more than seventy solo exhibitions of his paintings, including twenty-eight in New York City. In 2007–2008, he had a retrospective exhibition exploring five decades of his paintings at the Butler Institute of American Art. His paintings have been included in group exhibitions worldwide..His work has been seen in three Whitney Museum Biennials and hundreds of group shows, including those at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Modern Art, the André Emmerich Gallery, and the Leo Castelli Gallery. His paintings are represented in public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Gallery, the Seattle Museum of Art, the Norton Simon Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Bavarian State Museum in Munich, the Federal Reserve Board, the U.S. State Department, Charles Schwab, Mobil, GE, ARCO, Prudential Insurance, Chase Manhattan, New York University, and Stanford University. 1969, he was awarded a William and Norma Copley Foundation (Cassandra) Grant for Painting. In 1995 and 2001, he was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting. Mr. Landfield taught fine arts at the School of Visual Arts from 1975 to 1989, and was a guest instructor at Bennington College in 1968. He has taught at the Art Students League of New York since 1994.” (Source: The Art Students League)

PROVENANCE: Private corporate collection, ex-Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York.

CONDITION: Excellent condition.