1963
UNIQUE within an edition.
Mixed media on paper (folded). SIGNED and numbered with a holiday greeting on the backside (blank inside).
14/24
6 3/4h x 5w in (17.14h x 12.70w cm)
Alfred Julio Jensen (1903-1981) is recognized for his multicolored checkerboard paintings of triangles, circles, or squares, painted in thick impasto. The artist’s wide-ranging studies of systems and philosophies- from theories of color and light, mathematics, and the Mayan calendar, to scientific formulations- inform his distinctive conceptual approach.
The holiday greeting is addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Messer. Thomas M. Messer was director of the Guggenheim Museum from 1961 to 1987.