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Body Language: The Art of Larry Day celebrates the centenary year of Larry Day (1921–98), a visual maestro and brooding intellectual figure in post-war American art.
Sep 25, 2021 · A retrospective exhibition of the Philadelphia painter Larry Day (1921-1998), who explored the ordinary and the extraordinary in his figurative and abstract works. See his paintings, drawings, and sketches from the 1950s to the 1990s at three venues, including Woodmere Art Museum.
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By Phong Bui , Sid Sachs, Ruth Fine, Bill Valerio, and Richard TorchiaBy Richard Shiff, Scott Rothkopf, and Carlos BasualdoBy Phong BuiBy Charles SchultzBy Elina AlterBy Louis BlockGuest Critic:W. J. T. MitchellBy Mieke BalBy Janice Misurell-MitchellBy Charles BernsteinBy Charles SchultzBy John DominiBy Yvonne C. GarrettBy Amanda AuerbachBy Adolf AlzupharBy Martin LongleyBy George GrellaBy Scott GuttermanBy Tanya Jayani FernandoBy Christopher AtamianBy Mike StinavageBy Annie BerkeBy Harrison BlackmanBy Edward MendezBy Farah AbdessamadBy Eileen MylesBy Neeli CherkovskiBy John KeeneBy Ghinwa JawhariBy Brandt JunceauBy Charlie M. SchultzBy Jennie WaldowBy Leah OllmanDay, who practiced abstraction in the 1950s and showed his work with members of the New York School, contributed to conversations in American art that refocused attention on figurative representation.
Dec 7, 2021 · Body Language: The Art of Larry Day showcases the work of the dean of Philadelphia painting, who taught at UArts and Penn. See his figurative and abstract paintings, influenced by history, culture, and games.
Explore the paintings, drawings and prints of Larry Day, a Philadelphia-based artist who shifted from abstraction to figuration and cityscape. See nearly 150 works from the 1950s to the 1990s at Arcadia University, University of the Arts and Woodmere Art Museum.
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Dec 16, 2021 · In these austere, unpopulated spaces, Day creates a poetry of the anti-poetic. According to David Bindman’s catalogue essay, Nan Rosenthal, late curator at the Met, characterized Day’s work as “ironic realism,” the validity of which Day himself accepted.
