Peter Saul: The Sixties, Nolan Eckman Gallery, NYC

Peter Saul: The Sixties
Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
September 20 – October 26, 2002

In the 1960’s, Peter Saul’s paintings are poised between proto-Pop and Abstract Expressionism. Being an iconoclast, he resolutely avoids being part of either movement. But what a precocious lad he is! Somehow, he gets into the Icebox before Warhol, and then scouts for Guston, who would enter cartoon territory in 1967. Were he a stockbroker, Peter Saul’s prescience with Pop would have the SEC on his tail, pronto.

Featuring works not seen in over 35 years, this exhibition explores the foundations of Peter Saul’s fierce and mischievous artworks. He demonstrates an uncanny rapport with American culture, despite the fact that everything was made while living in Europe. And in many respects, his early work is very much like his current work: Peter Saul continues his ironical investigation of the economic and moral forces that move our society.

A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Peter Saul, The Sixties

Edited by David Nolan

Text by Ellen H. Johnson (re-print from 1964)

44 pages, softcover, 10 color ill., 3 b&w; ill.

Published by Nolan/Eckman Gallery, 2002.

NOLAN/ECKMAN GALLERY
560 Broadway, New York, NY 10012
www.nolaneckman.com

Updated: 16.07.2019