Kindred Vision - Lorser Feitelson

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Instead of getting the ambiguity between a feeling and a feeling, I found that when I made these flat shapes, they were so beautiful, the ambiguity with the object that contained it, or made this thing possible, that I said, "Why can't I get something like this to play with this?" I don't need this illusionism. Now I'll create a psychological illusionism...It fluctuates--it plays back and forth. But the key was ambiguity, that the forms already had two existences.

LORSER FEITELSON

Danieli, Fideli. Los Angeles Art Community: Group Portrait, Interview with Lorser Feitelson. 1974, MS published 1982. Oral History Program, University of California Los Angeles, pages 111-112.

To my surprise I was invited to a show at the Whitney called "Geometric Abstraction in America" (1962). I hadn't thought of myself as a geometric abstractionist because I was interested in the illusions of space and dimension one could create with these absolutely flat, unmodeled areas. And at that time my personal rule was, "No curves, only straight lines." Then I began to feel like doing something combining curves and the angular, and this (series) came out.

HELEN LUNDEBERG

Danieli, Fideli. Los Angeles Art Community: Group Portrait, Interview with Helen Lundeberg. 1974, MS published 1982. Oral History Program, University of California Los Angeles, pages 57-58.

Lorser Feitelson
Bathers, 1920
oil on canvas
58 x 72 inches;
147.3 x 182.9 centimeters

Provenance
         Estate of the artist;
         Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Collection;
         Feitelson Arts Foundation

Exhibition
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective Exhibition,
October 2 - November 16, 1980. Also shown at The Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles,
March 17 - May 3, 1981.

Literature
San Francisco Museum of Art, Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective Exhibition, California, 1980,
page 11, illustrated plate 3 . Introduction by Henry T. Hopkins with catalogue text by Diane Degasis Moran.

Lorser Feitelson
Archimage #2, 1976
acrylic on canvas board
30 x 24 inches;
76.2 x 61.0 centimeters

Provenance
         Collection of the artist;
         Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Collection;
         Feitelson Arts Foundation.

Exhibition
Los Angeles, California, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Lorser Feitelson,
The Organic Line: 1916-1977, September 13 - October 31, 1990.

Helen Lundeberg
Islands, 1986
acrylic on canvas
50 x 50 inches;
127 x 127 centimeters

Provenance
Collection of the artist;
Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Arts Foundation.

Exhibitions
          Rancho Palos Verdes, California, The Palos Verdes Art Center, Martha Alf and
Helen Lundeberg: Two Views 1970-1987, November 20, 1987 - January 9, 1988.
          Fresno, California, Fresno Art Museum, Helen Lundeberg: An American Visionary,
May 12 - August 11, 1989.
          Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Art Association, Lundeberg & Feitelson: Together Again,
February 13 - March 13, 1993, traveled to Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles.
          West Hollywood, California, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Helen Lundeberg and the Illusory Landscape,
April 22 - August 28, 2004.
          West Hollywood, California, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Kindred Vision: Lorser Feitelson / Helen Lundeberg,
April 30 - June 18 2011, number 8.

Literature
Moran, Diane D. Helen Lundeberg and the Illusory Landscape. (catalogue essay), Louis Stern Fine Arts,
West Hollywood, California, 2004, plate 49, illustrated in color page 117.

Helen Lundeberg
The Isle, 1934
oil on board
9 x 17 inches;
22.9 x 43.2 centimeters

Provenance
Collection of the artist;
Feitelson Arts Foundation.

Exhibitions
Pasadena, California, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Post Surrealism, June 1 - September 1, 2002.
Also shown at Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, October 11, 2002 - January 24, 2003.
Catalogue published, page 46.
West Hollywood, California, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Helen Lundeberg and the Illusory Landscape,
April 22 - August 28, 2004, plate 3, illustrated in color on page 25.

Lorser Feitelson
Prometheus, 1949
oil on canvas
30 x 36 inches;
76.2 x 91.4 centimeters

Provenance
Collection of the artist;
Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Collection; Feitelson Arts Foundation.

Exhibition
West Hollywood, California, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Kindred Vision:
Lorser Feitelson / Helen Lundeberg, April 30 - June 18 2011, number 9.

Lorser Feitelson
Magical Space Forms, 1951
oil on canvas
50 x 74 inches;
127 x 188 centimeters

Provenance
          Collection of the Artist;
          Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Collection;
          Feitelson Arts Foundation.

Exhibition
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Four Abstract Classicists, 1959.

Literature
Langsner, Jules. Four Abstract Classicists, (catalogue), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1959, illustrated page 33.

Lorser Feitelson
Untitled, 1950
Oil on canvas
36 x 30 inches;
91.4 x 76.2 centimeters

Provenance
          Collection of the artist;
          Helen Lundeberg Feitelson collection;
          Feitelson Arts Foundation.

Exhibition
San Francisco Museum of Art, California, Lorser Feitelson and
Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective Exhibition, October 2 - November 16, 1980.

Literature
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Lorser Feitelson and
Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1980, plate 34, illustrated page 17.
Catalogue Introduction by Henry T. Hopkins with text by Diane Degasis Moran.