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Over the course of a career spanning four decades, Jay DeFeo (1929-1989, b. Hanover, New Hampshire) experimented widely with a range of unorthodox materials, exploring the parameters of painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, photocopies, and photography. In 1959 her work was featured in Sixteen Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. From 1958 to 1966 DeFeo worked almost exclusively on her masterpiece, The Rose. First exhibited in 1969 at the Pasadena Art Museum, California, the work was subsequently installed at the San Francisco Art Institute, before being acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1995. In 2012 the Whitney organized Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, which traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. One-person exhibitions of DeFeo’s work have taken place at the University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (1990), and the San Jose Museum of Art, California (2019), among others. In 2018 Le Consortium in Dijon, France, organized Jay DeFeo: The Ripple Effect, a show examining her legacy and lasting influence on contemporary artists working today, which travelled to the Aspen Art Museum. DeFeo’s works are in the collections of many museums, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, The de Young Museum, San Francisco; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; The Menil Collection, Houston; The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Tate Modern, London; and The Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Jay DeFeo
Untitled (Florence), 1952
tempera on paper
19 x 20 3/8 in. (48.3 x 51.8 cm)
Jay DeFeo
Summer Landscape, 1982
oil with collage on paper
6 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches (17.1 x 23.8 cm)
Jay DeFeo
Summer Landscape, 1982
oil on paper
9 5/16 x 12 1/2 inches (23.7 x 31.8 cm)
signed and dated lower right recto: "J.DeFeo 1982"
Jay DeFeo
Untitled, c. 1975-76
collage of photomechanical reproduction, gelatin silver print and transparent pressure-sensitive tape
9 1/2 x 4 in. (24.1 x 10.2 cm)
Jay DeFeo
Untitled, 1972
unique gelatin silver print
3 x 4 3/8 in. (7.6 x 11.1 cm)
Jay DeFeo
Wings No. 1 (Angel series), 1976
ink and tape with collage on paper
14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Jay DeFeo
Untitled (Summer Image), 1983
acrylic, charcoal and enamel with tape on paper
44 1/2 x 31 3/8 inches (113 x 79.7 cm)
Jay DeFeo
Untitled (Eternal Triangle series), 1980
acrylic on paper
28 5/8 x 21 1/2 in. (72.7 x 54.6 cm)
Jay DeFeo
Untitled (Reflections of Africa series), 1989
graphite on paper
14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Jay DeFeo
Summer Landscape, 1982
oil with collage on paper
6 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches (17.1 x 23.8 cm)
Jay DeFeo
Summer Landscape, 1982
oil on paper
9 5/16 x 12 1/2 inches (23.7 x 31.8 cm)
signed and dated lower right recto: "J.DeFeo 1982"
Jay DeFeo
Untitled, c. 1975-76
collage of photomechanical reproduction, gelatin silver print and transparent pressure-sensitive tape
9 1/2 x 4 in. (24.1 x 10.2 cm)
Jay DeFeo
Wings No. 1 (Angel series), 1976
ink and tape with collage on paper
14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Jay DeFeo
Untitled (Summer Image), 1983
acrylic, charcoal and enamel with tape on paper
44 1/2 x 31 3/8 inches (113 x 79.7 cm)
Jay DeFeo
Untitled (Eternal Triangle series), 1980
acrylic on paper
28 5/8 x 21 1/2 in. (72.7 x 54.6 cm)
Jay DeFeo
Untitled (Reflections of Africa series), 1989
graphite on paper
14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)