manny farber paintings 1967––1975

MANNY FARBERpaintings from 1967–1975

MANNY FARBERpaintings from 1967–1975

January 4 – 18, 2014

Van Doren Waxter23 East 73rd Street New York, NY 10021TEL: 212 445 0444FAX: 212 445 0442EMAIL: [email protected] www.vandorenwaxter.com

Untitled, ca. 1967-75, Collaged paper, 65 x 77 inches (165.1 x 195.6 cm)

Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present Manny Farber: paintings from 1967 – 1975, a solo exhibition featuring early, often double-sided, abstract works on paper by the late Manny Farber (1917 – 2008). The exhibition will be on view from January 4 – 18, 2014. These large-scale, process-driven paintings were constructed with Kraft paper that Farber meticulously layered to create a strong foundation for paint. Three-foot squares of paper were joined with one-inch seams and then cut into decisive shapes: lozenges, trapezoids, ovoids, etc. which he laid out on top of plastic sheeting. First he poured acrylic paint over the surface, dispersed it using rollers, then flipped it over onto the plastic to dry - where after a preparatory soaking with water he would repeat this process on the other side using a deliberately different, yet complimentary color, this time adding a sheet of muslin that the paint would be poured over and which was later removed. The seams guided the water and paint, dictated how the two colors merged and interacted with each other. This method resulted in works where the surface and image became one. In addition to this consuming, permeable painting process, Farber utilized linear underdrawings on the raw paper made with snapped chalk lines and by dragging a paint-soaked piece of string over the painting’s surface to create pockets of movement that added a certain depth to the image’s surface. The resulting lyrical façade looks atmospheric, planetary, aqueous and geologic, with layers of color and the natural creasing of the paper. Crackled paint, veins, scars are all part of what makes up the “skin” of these paintings. Farber distinguished himself from the color field school in his rejection of formalist, high-contrast, artificial colors. Instead, his sensibility leans toward color that looks like “it’s been through a lot: abraded, drowned, rising to the surface, floating. Light-sensitive color that has been subjected to natural phenomena.” The visual experience of these works invokes a cinematic quality by virtue of their precise, monumental planes of color and how the viewer scans over the image. The shaped paper works engage in a real dialogue with architectural space, presented by being pinned directly to the wall. Farber’s experience as a carpenter and sculptor is evident in the physical construction of these works, both in the making process and as objets d’art. Manny Farber was born in Douglas, AZ in 1917 and died in Leucadia, CA in 2008. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley; California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco; and the Rudolf Schaefer School of Design, San Francisco. In addition to making art, Farber also worked as a film and art critic for four decades. He received the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study in 1977-78 and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978-79. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston among others.

Untitledca. 1967 - 1975Collaged paper79 x 80 inches (200.7 x 203.2 cm)MF 8045

No one could doubt that Manny Farber has always seen �lms through a painter’s eyes. Lately the inverse is true as well, as he has come to paint with a �lm-maker’s vision. Looking from the exhi-bition to Farber’s writing it becomes clear that the basis for the �lm analysis and the painting’s impulses are concentric: an insistence on inventing space as the salient visual activity.

Richard Armstrong, Manny Farber: An Exhibition Organized by the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1978


As they abolish the separation between display surface and sup-port structure with the elimination of the stretcher, these paint-ings also dissolve the traditional distinction between surface and �guration imposed upon it. The fusion of paper and poured acrylic applied to both sides to the point of total saturation generates a new kind of pictoriality in which the surface and image are one.

Sheldon Nodelman, Manny Farber: About Face, 2004

Untitledca. 1967 - 1975Collaged paper74 x 64 inches (188 x 162.6 cm)MF 8051

[The paintings] weren’t done the way people draw, with their arm. You gauge a linear work with the length of the arm making the move. The spatiality of those huge paintings came about partly because the rude and crude loft we had was huge. It’s also related to the fact that when you’re doing a bridge or building in carpentry, it’s not an arm length that’s the measure, it’s the whole span—the roof length or �oor length. You can’t cut that kind of a line with your arm. You’re cutting it with expansiveness. The spatiality comes from being in dangerous positions on bridges or skyscrapers.

Manny Farber, Art in America, October 2004

Untitledca. 1967 - 1975Collaged paper70 1/2 x 64 inches (179.1 x 162.6 cm)MF 8018

detailFarber’s paintings, however, are often of monumen-tal scale—easily the equals of the very large works of his prominent contemporaries in more conven-tional materials and format—and of an imposing presence… and their �guration �rmly appropriates the entire �eld of the support from edge to edge.

Sheldon Nodelman, Manny Farber: About Face , 2004

Untitledca. 1967 - 1975Collaged paper74 x 44 1/2 inches (188 x 113 cm)MF 8059

Making the contour is not a single gestural act but a sequence of delicate, intuitive deci-sions. It can take a day or two of adjusting the big surface against the thin slivers of paper that modify a curve or angle before Farber is satis�ed with its format.

Amy Goldin, Manny Farber: An Exhibition Organized by the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1978

Untitledca. 1967- 1975Collaged paper65 x 77 inches (165.1 x 195.6 cm)MF 8060

Farber likes color that looks as if it’s been through a lot: abraded, drowned, rising to the surface, �oating. Light-sensitive color that has been subjected to natural phenomena. He hates cosmetic color, color as arti�ce or coating, color that announces itself as pigment.


Untitledca. 1967 - 1975Collaged paper82 x 44 1/2 inches (208.3 x 113 cm)MF 8061

The most inclusive description of the art is that, termite-like, it feels its way through walls of particularization, with no sign that the artist has any object in mind other than eating away the immediate boundaries of his art, and turning these boundaries into conditions of the next achievement.

Manny Farber, “White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art”, 1962


His basic task was to deny the one-sidedness of the paper, which meant treating it as permeable stuff rather than as a surface. The �rst step, therefore, was to saturate the paper and paint the back of it. The color’s bleed-through makes its entire mass, its back, interior and front, visible at once. Accordingly, the color Farber used on the back usually contrasts strongly with the color on the face — a creamy greenish surface will have a heavy-looking ox-blood on the back, for example.


BIOGRAPHY

1917 Born in Douglas, Arizona

1934-37 Studies at University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; California School of Fine

Arts, San Francisco; Rudolf Schaefer School of Design, San Francisco

1942 Begins career as art critic, then film critic for The New Republic. In the following four

decades he writes for The Nation, Time, Commentary, The New Leader,

Cavalier, Film Comment, and Artforum.

1951 First group exhibition

1957 First solo exhibition

1969 Joins the visual arts faculty at the University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

1987 Retires from teaching

2008 Passes away at his home in Leucadia, CA

AWARDS

1978-79 Guggenheim Fellowship

1977-78 National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study

1973 Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California, San Diego

1971 Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California, San Diego

1968 National Endowment for the Arts Grant

1967 Guggenheim Fellowship

1957 Graybar Fellowship

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014 Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA (forthcoming)

Manny Farber paintings 1967-75, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY

2011 Manny Farber: Selected Works From The Artist’s Estate, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

2009-10 Manny Farber: Four Decades Of Painting And Drawing, Gotthelf Art

Gallery at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, San Diego, CA

2008 Manny Farber: Drawing Across Time, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

2006 Manny Farber: Recent Paintings, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

2003 Manny Farber: About Face, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA Traveled to Austin

Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; PS1/MOMA, Long Island City, New York, NY. Catalogue.

Manny Farber New Small Paintings, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

2001 Manny Farber: New Paintings, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA


1999 Manny Farber: Recent Paintings, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA


1997 Six Solo Exhibitions, California, Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA

1996 Manny Farber: Paintings, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

Manny Farber, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

1995 Manny Farber: New Paintings, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

1994 Manny Farber: Recent Work, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

New Paintings, Frumkin-Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1993 Manny Farber: Works On Paper From The Seventies, Quint Krichman Projects, La Jolla, CA

About Looking: Manny Farber Paintings, 1984 -1993, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University,

Waltham, MA

Manny Farber: New Paintings, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

Manny Farber: Recent Work, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY

1992 Manny Farber: New Paintings, Quint Krichman Projects, La Jolla, CA

Manny Farber, Black And White Paintings, 1985 – 1991, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San

Diego, La Jolla, CA

1991 Manny Farber: New Paintings, Quint Krichman Projects, La Jolla, CA

Manny Farber, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MA

1990 Manny Farber: New Works, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

Underworld USA, Krygier-Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1988 Selected Paintings, 1976-1986, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

Dietrich Jenny Gallery, San Diego, CA

1987 Krygier-Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Manny Farber: Paintings, Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA

1986 Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

Krygier-Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1985 Manny Farber, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, catalogue

1984 Manny Farber: Recent Paintings And Drawings, Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA

1983 Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1982 Oil and Steel Gallery, New York, NY

Manny Farber Paintings, Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, DC

Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Richard Bellamy Gallery, New York, NY

1981 James Crumley Gallery, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA

Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1980 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

1978 Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Manny Farber, Retrospective Exhibition, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, (now Museum of

Contemporary Art San Diego) La Jolla, CA, catalogue

Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Converse College, Spartanburg, SC

P.S. 1, Long Island City, Queens, NY

1977 O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY

Seder/Creigh Gallery, Coronado, CA

1976 Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL

1974 Jack Glen Gallery, San Diego, CA

1973 David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Suzanne Saxe Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Manny Farber, Parker Street 470, Boston, MA

Manny Farber, O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY

1971 Parker 470, Boston, MA

Solo Show, O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

1970 Studio Show, New York, NY

1969 Solo Show, 20 Warren Street (O.K. Harris Gallery), New York, NY

1968 Solo Show, Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, New York, NY

1967 Solo Show, Warren Street Studio, New York, NY

1962 Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY

1957 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY

1956 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 Quint: Three Decades Of Contemporary Art, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA

Homing In: An Exhibition Of 50 San Diego Artists, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

2008 On Flowers, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA

2006 High Times, Hard Times: Painting In New York 1967-75, Independent Curators

International, New York, NY, Traveling exhibition: Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at

Greensboro, Greensboro, NC; American University Museum at Katzen Center, Washington, D.C.; National

Academy Museum, New York, NY

2004 Four Americans: Manny Farber, Sven Lukin, William Tunberg, Camille Utterback, Marlborough Chelsea, New

York, NY

2003 Two For The Road, Sketchbooks Of Patricia Patterson And Manny Farber, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library,

La Jolla, CA

2001 In Their Eighties: Noteworthy Works By Artists In Their Ninth Decade Of Life, Earl & Birdie Taylor Library,

Pacific Beach, CA

2000 Made In California: Art, Image, And Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,

CA

1997 Tabletops: Morandi's Still Lifes to Mapplethorpe's Flower Studies, California Center for the Arts Museum,

Escondido, CA

Salient Green, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI

Paintings From The '90's, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA

Visual Arts 30th Anniversary Faculty Exhibition, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego,

La Jolla, CA

Group Show, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

Perception And Experience: Works From The Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San

Diego, La Jolla, CA

1994 Group Show, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

“Unstill” Still Life: An Exhibition Of Contemporary Painting In Oil, Fine Arts

Center Galleries, Department of Art, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

1983 American Still Life: 1945-1983, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

Works From The Collections, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

California Current, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

Drawings By Painters, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, Traveling exhibition:

Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland,

CA

1982 Works On Paper, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1981 33rd Annual Hassam and Speicher Fund Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and

Letters, New York, NY

A Continuation Of The Figurative Tradition, Baker Gallery, La Jolla, CA

19 Artists Emergent Americans, Exxon National Exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1980 University Of California, San Diego Faculty Art Exhibition, Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California,

San Diego, La Jolla, CA

1979 Narrative Art Of The Seventies, American Foundation of the Arts, Miami, FL

1978 Gallery Artists, Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Transportation Show, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

Big San Diego Show, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Southern California Styles Of The 60's And 70's, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

O.K. Harris Group Show, New York, NY

University Of California, San Diego Faculty Art Exhibition, Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California,


1976 University Of California, San Diego Faculty Art Exhibition, Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California,


1973 Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

1971 Highlights Of The 1970-71 Season, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT

Painting Without Supports, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

1970 Whitney Annual Painting Exhibition, New York, NY

1969 Art On Paper, Witherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC

O.K. Harris Group Show, New York, NY

1962 Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY

1951 Peggy Guggenheim Group Show, Art of This Century Gallery, New York, NY

CATALOGUES AND BOOKS

2009 Farber, Manny and Robert Polito. Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber. Library of

America: New York, 2009.

2003 Davies, Hugh M., Crary, Jonathan, Hanor, Stephanie, Nodelman, Sheldon, Polito, Robert and Walsh, Robert

Manny Farber: About Face. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego: La Jolla, CA, 2003.

Yard, Sally. Two for the Road: Sketchbooks of Patricia Patterson and Manny Farber. Athenaeum Music and

Arts Library: La Jolla, CA, 2003.

1998 Farber, Manny and Robert Walsh. Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies. Expanded edition (first

edition published 1971). Da Capo Press: New York, 1998.

1991 Yard, Sally. Manny Farber: Paintings of the Eighties. Quint•Krichman Projects: La Jolla, CA, 1991.

1988 Perrine, Robert. San Diego Artists. Artra Publishing, Inc.: Encinitas, CA, 1988.

1985 Crary, Jonathan, Patrick Amos, Jean-Pierre Gorin, and Kevin Parker. Manny Farber. The Los Angeles

Museum of Contemporary Art: Los Angeles, CA, 1985.

1978 Goldin, Amy and Richard Armstrong. Manny Farber. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art: Los Angeles, CA,

1978.

INTERVIEWS

1985 Smith, Elizabeth. "Manny Farber: An Interview," The Contemporary (The Museum of Contemporary Art Los

Angeles), Fall, pg. 5.

1982 Gorin, Jean-Pierre, Olivier Assayas, Serge Le Péron, and Serge Toubiana. "Manny Farber, Critique et Peintre

du Cinéma," Cashiers du Cinéma, April, pp. 54-56, 58, 60, 62, 65, 130.

1977 Thompson, Richard. "Patricia Patterson and Manny Farber Interviewed by Richard Thompson," Film

Comment, May/June, pp. 36-60.

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Preisman, Fran. Captioned photograph, Artweek, March 12, pg. 3.

…. Illustrations only, Arts, January, vol. 51, pg. 65.

1976 Baker, Kenneth. "A Painting By Manny Farber," Arts Magazine, December 1, pp. 122-3.

Reily, Richard, "UCSD Show Demonstrates a Faculty of Arts," The San Diego Union, May/June, sec. E, pg. 1.

Agaldi, Sandra. "Manny Farber Paintings," Manuscript.

1974 Phelan, Ellen. "Manny Farber's Reversible Paintings," Artweek, November 16, pg. 13.

Plagens, Peter. "Review of Exhibitions: Manny Farber at David Stuart," Art in America, January/February, pp.

106-7.

1973 Wilson, William. "Manny Farber's Paintings Exhibited at David Stuart Galleries," Los Angeles Times,

November 16, sec. IV, pg. 18.

Dunham, Judith. "Manny Farber 'Paintings’,” Artweek, October 27, pg. 1.

Stitelman, Paul, and Richard Channin. "New York Galleries: Manny Farber O.K. Harris," Arts Magazine,

September 10, vol. 48, pg. 60.

Baker, Kenneth. "Review of Exhibitions: Manny Farber at Parker 470," Art in America, May/June, pg. 106.

Campbell, Lawrence. "Reviews and Previews: Manny Farber," Art News, May, pg. 96.

Baker, Kenneth. "Art: Critic as Painter," Boston Phoenix, January 2, pg. 14.

1972 Taylor, Robert. "Farber Captures Imagination Without Even Using a Frame," Boston Globe, December 20, pg.

42.

Channin, Richard. "The Rise of Factural Autonomy," Arts Magazine, November, pp. 30-37.

Ratcliff, Carter. "Chronicles: New York Letter," Art International, February, pg. 54.

Shirley, David. "Farber Paintings Show Shift to a Quieter Style," New York Times, January 1, pg. 9.

1971 Wills, Domingo. "New York Galleries: Manny Farber at O.K. Harris," Arts Magazine, April. pg. 84.

Schwartz, Barbara. "Reviews and Previews: Manny Farber," Art News, April, vol. 70, pg. 12

Linville, Kasha. "Manny Farber, O.K. Harris," Artforum, April, pp. 81-2.

Shirley, David. "Downtown Scene: Shaped Paintings of a Film Critic," New York Times, March 3, pg. 38.

Baker, Kenneth. "Film Critic Farber in Two Art Shows," Christian Science Monitor, February 22, pg. 4.

1970 Rosenstein, Harris. "Reviews and Previews: Manny Farber," Art News, May, vol. 69. pg. 65.

Pincus-Witten, Robert. "Manny Farber, O.K. Harris Gallery Studio Exhibition," Artforum, May pg. 74.

Sandler, Irving. "Reviews and Previews: Manny Farber," Art News, October, vol. 61, pg. 13.

1956 Sawin, Martica. "In the Galleries: Manny Farber," Arts, December, vol. 31, pg. 61.

Hess, Thomas. "Manny Farber: Writing as Painting," November, pg. 37.

CRITICAL REVIEWS ON ART BY FARBER

1961 "Insiders and Other," Arts, January, vol. 35, pp. 42-45.

1959 "Eilshemius: Artist behind Mahatma,” Art News, April, vol. 58, pp. 26-7.

"New Images of (ugh) Man," Art News, vol. 58, pp. 38-39.

1955 "Jack Levine," Art News, March, vol. 54, pg. 33.

1954 "Design Mystique," Art News, April, vol. 53, pg. 39.

1952 The Nation, vol. 174:

"Art," February 9, pg. 140.

"James Brooks," March 1, pp. 209-10.

"Art," March 8, pg. 236.

1951 The Nation, vol. 172:

"Art," March 24, pg. 285.

"Art," April 21, pg. 384.

"Amedeo Modigliani," May 19, pp. 476-7.

"Art," June 16, pp. 572-3.

The Nation, vol. 173:

"Art," October 13, pp. 313-4.

"Art," November 3, pg. 382.

"Art," December 22, pp. 555-6.

1950 "Art," The Nation, November 11, vol. 171, pp. 445-6.

1949 "Weber Answers Questions," Art News, March, vol. 48, pp. 22-4.

1946 "An American Show," New Republic, October 14, vol. 115, pg. 485.

1945 "Art for Science's Sake," New Republic, January 29, vol. 112, pp. 151-2.

"Piet Mondrian," New Republic, April 16, vol. 112, p. 506, reprinted in For Now, no. 9, pp. 48-51.

"Rouault," New Republic, May 14, vol. 112, p. 678, reprinted in For Now, no. 9, pp. 20-22.

"Jackson Pollock," New Republic, June 25, vol. 112, p. 871.

"Art for Science's Sake, II," New Republic, November, vol. 113, p. 640.

1944 "83-Year Tantrum," New Republic, January 31, vol. 110, pp. 155-6.

"No Directions," New Republic, June 5, vol. 110, p. 764.

"Mexican Master," New Republic, October 9, vol. 111, pp. 459-60.

"Comic Strips," New Republic, September 4, vol. 111, p. 279.

"Art in Contrast," New Republic, November 13, vol. 111, p. 626.

1943 "Chaim Gross, Milton Avery, and William Steig," Magazine of Art, January, vol. 26, pp. 10-15.

"Walter Houmere," Magazine of Art, February, vol. 26, pp. 58-61, illustrated.

"What Artists and What Victory," New Republic, February, vol. 108, p. 149.

"Feininger, Tack, and Burlin," Magazine of Art, March, vol. 36, pp. 107-9.

1942 "American Art," New Republic, February 2, vol. 106, p. 146.

"Ordeal by Gallery," New Republic, February 16, vol. 106, p. 236.

"War Posters," New Republic, March 16, vol. 106, pp. 366-7.

"Thomas Benton's War," New Republic, April 20, vol. 10, pp. 542-3.

"Gallery and Theatre," New Republic, June 8, vol. 106, p. 798.

"57th Street and Thereabouts," Magazine of Art, November, vol. 35, pp. 260-1.

"John B. Flannagan," New Republic, November 23, vol. 107, pp. 680-1.

"Two European Painters," New Republic, November 9, vol. 107, p. 610.

"Artists for Victory," Magazine of Art, December, vol. 35, pp. 202-5.

"Tchelitchew at Museum of Modern Art and Various Doings," Magazine of Art, December, vol. 35, pp. 202-5.

COLLECTIONS

Allendale Insurance Company, Boston, MA

Art of the Americas Collection, The Michener Collection, University of Texas, Austin, TX

Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

John Muir College, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

Prudential Life Insurance, Newark, NY

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Worcester Museum, Worcester, MA

MANNY FARBER paintings 1967 – 1975 January 4 – 18, 2014 Edited by Dorsey Waxter, Nick Naber Designed by Nick Naber Artwork Photography by Kevin Kunstadt With thanks to Patricia Patterson, Mark Quint, Ben Strauss–Malcolm, and Robert Walsh Van Doren Waxter 23 East 73rd Street New York, NY 10021 TEL: 212 444 0444 FAX: 212 445 0442 EMAIL: [email protected] Van Doren Waxter All rights reserved. No Part of the contents of this catalogue may be reproduced without permission of the publisher.

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