PAUL JENKINS Colorfield Abstract Lithograph

PAUL JENKINS Colorfield Abstract Lithograph, inscriptions to lower right corner read ‘Paul Jenkins’, subject a view of color through an abstract expressionist illustration, measures 14 7/8 x 18 7/8 inches, window measures 11 1/4 x 15 3/8 inches, metal toned composite frame, surface wear to frame, professionally framed and double matted in yellow, not examined out of frame. Paul Jenkins was an American abstract artist and member of the New York School. Jenkins’s innovative practice was characterized by his choice to avoid the paintbrush altogether, instead allowing pigment to pool, bloom, or roll across the surface of his canvases, guiding the paint with a knife to create fluid fields of color, as seen his work Phenomena Anderson (1972). “With the smooth organic surface of the ivory, I could use great pressure against the sensitive tooth of the canvas,” the artist said of his process. Born William Paul Jenkins on July 12, 1923 in Kansas City, MO, Jenkins worked at a ceramics factory in his youth, an experience