Howard Mehring

#5, 1962

acrylic and graphite on canvas

96 x 60 inches

“The geometric image (is as basic to color painting as) the rhythmic repetition of an element, color, space and openness, symmetry. I start with a certain symmetrical image, and then let the picture paint itself out in a balance between intellect and intuition. I think there is a search for balance in the new painting today. It is a classical period. We start with a preconceived idea and then carry it through intuitive means.”[i]

-Howard Mehring

[i] The Vincent Melzac Collection: The Washington Color Painters at The Museum of the Palm Beaches, Inc. Norton Gallery and School of Art, Palm Beach, FL (1974), p. 37.

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Howard Mehring

Untitled (Orange Allover), c.1960

magna on canvas

12 x 14 inches

“I work rapidly and impulsively over the whole surface in waves of color. With thin washes I can achieve a sense of richness and depth ambiguously maintaining flatness.…I weight and mix each color carefully using each as an interior pressure working for expansion.”[i]

[i] Livingston, p. 11.

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Howard Mehring

Untitled (Green/Blue/Yellow Ambit), 1961

magna and graphite on canvas

23 x 27 inches

HM124

Howard Mehring

Cadmium Double

c.1963, magna on canvas, 

77 x 79 inches.

Howard Mehring

Blue Section

1961, magna on canvas, 51 x 46 inches.

Howard Mehring

Untitled, c.1961-62

magna on canvas

50 x 47 inches

Howard Mehring

Untitled, 1961

enamel on paper

18 x 24 inches

HM084

Howard Mehring

Blue Note, 1965

graphite, gouache, and oilstick on paper

11 x 8 inches

Framed: 15h x 17.50w in

HM132