Lot 784: Large Frederick Wardy Abstract Acrylic Painting, New York 56 – START OF DAY TWO

Frederick Julian Wardy (California/New York, b. 1934) abstract acrylic on canvas painting titled “New York 56″ with horizontal blue, green, orange, and red stripes that run beneath a dominant layer of yellow stripes, with passages of exposed canvas throughout, 1976. With Willard Gallery, New York, and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art labels affixed to stretcher. Unframed. 96″ H x 72” W. Biographical note: “Frederick Julian Wardy is a prolific abstract painter and sculptor who has worked in many styles and mediums, producing paintings, works on paper, and sculpture. His art career began in the late 1960s and continues to the present…Wardy ‘s paintings on canvas and works on paper usually have complex interactions of color or of line and demonstrate an ambitious control of mediums…Wardy established Wardy Surfboards in Laguna Beach in 1959 and made surfboards there from 1959 to 1967. His name and surfboards are part of surfing lore in California and Hawaii…Wardy ‘s career as an artist began in the late 1960s in Los Angeles and continued in New York City, where he maintained a studio in the Tribeca district of Manhattan for more than thirty-five years. Beginning in the late 1990s, he also maintained a studio on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. He currently works in Long Beach, California, and in Manhattan and is represented by private art dealers. His work is in various institutional and private collections.” (Source: FrederickWardy.com)

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.

CONDITION: Excellent condition.