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The Minimalist Years, 1960-1975, an exhibition of works by American artist Jo Baer, brings together some twenty paintings and a number of drawings and prints produced in the years she lived in New York City. The exhibition, Baer's first solo museum exhibition in the United States since 1975, will be on view from September 12, 2002, to June 15, 2003.
The exhibition includes a number of Baer's early works, which address the relations of pictorial edge and field and of color and composition, plus more experimental works from the mid-seventies, which explore questions of flatness versus volume, frontality versus multiple vantage points, and objecthood versus illusion.
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| Checklist of Works |
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1. Graph-Paper Painting, 1962–63
oil on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Collection of Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur. Dispositionsfond, 2000.
2. Graph-Paper Painting, 1962–63
oil on canvas
36 x 36 inches
Collection of Kunstmuseum Winthertur, Winterthur. Dispositionsfond, 2000.
3. Untitled (Black Star), 1960–61
oil on canvas
72 x 72 inches
Collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
4. Untitled, 1962
oil on canvas
72 x 72 inches
Collection of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Gift of Arthur Fleischer, Jr.
5. Untitled, 1969–71
oil on canvas
6 parts, each: 31 x 37 inches
Collection of Museum Ludwig, Cologne
6. Untitled (Vertical Flanking Diptych–Green),
1966–74
oil on canvas
two panels, each: 96 x 68 x 33/8 inches
overall: 96 x 145 x 33/8 inches
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
7. Primary Light Group: Red, Green, Blue, 1964–65
oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas
3 panels, each: 60 x 60 inches
Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Philip Johnson Fund, 1969
8. Untitled (Double Bar–Red), 1972
oil on canvas
72 x 72 inches
Collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
9. V. Eutopicus, 1973
oil on canvas
80 x 22 x 4 inches
Collection of Virginia and Bagley Wright
9 drawings:
10. H. Tenebrosa
acrylic on canvas
22 x 96 1/4 x 4 inches
Collection of Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
11. V. Staminodeus, 1974
oil on canvas
80 x 22 x 4 inches
Courtesy of the artist, Amsterdam
12. H. Arcuata, 1971
oil on canvas
22 x 96 x 4 inches
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
13. V. Speculum, 1970
oil on canvas
88 x 22 x 4 inches
Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
14. H. Orbitaster, 1973
oil on canvas
22 x 96 x 4 inches
Courtesy PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York
15. M. Refractarius, 1974–75
oil on canvas
42 x 60 x 4 inches
Collection of Gilles and Marie-Francoise Fuchs, Paris
16. Cadmos' Thicket, 1974
inkless intaglio hand-colored with oil
40 x 30 inches
Courtesy Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
17. Cardinations, 1974
suite of nine screen-prints
each: 281/4 x 21 inches
Courtesy Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
18. Untitled, 1961
color and pencil on paper
4 x 4 inches
Collection of Kunstmuseum Winthertur, Winterthur. Disposititionsfond, 1996
19. Untitled, 1962
color and pencil on paper
4 x 4 inches
Collection of Kunstmuseum Winthertur, Winterthur. Disposititionsfond, 1996
20. Untitled, 1962
color and pencil on paper
4 x 4 inches
Collection of Kunstmuseum Winthertur, Winterthur. Disposititionsfond, 1996
21. Untitled, 1960
color and collage on paper
4 x 41/4 inches
Collection of Kunstmuseum Winthertur, Winterthur. Disposititionsfond, 1996
22. Untitled, 1962–63
pencil on graduated paper
6 x 6 inches
Collection of Kunstmuseum Winthertur, Winterthur. Gift of the artist
23. Untitled, 1962–63
pencil on graduated paper
6 x 6 inches
Collection of Kunstmuseum Winthertur, Winterthur. Gift of the artist
24. Untitled, 1962–63
pencil on graduated paper
6 x 6 inches
Collection of Kunstmuseum Winthertur, Winterthur. Gift of the artist
25. Untitled, 1962–63
pencil on graduated paper
6 x 6 inches
Collection of Kunstmuseum Winthertur, Winterthur. Gift of the artist
26. Untitled, 1962–63
pencil on graduated paper
6 x 6 inches
Collection of Kunstmuseum Winthertur, Winterthur. Gift of the artist
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Jo Baer. Paintings 1960-1998. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1999. Text by Jo Baer, Marja Bloem, and Marianne Brouwer.
Baer, Jo. "I am Not an Abstract Artist." Art in America 71, no. 9 (October 1983), pp. 136–137.
Jo Baer. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1975. Text by Barbara Haskell.
Lippard, Lucy. "Color at the Edge." Art News 71, no. 3 (May 1972), reprinted in From the Center: Feminist Essays on Woman's Art. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976, pp. 172–180.
Lippard, Lucy. "New York Letter: Off Color." Art International 10, no. 4 (April 1966), pp. 73–74.
Loring, John. "Jo Baer." Arts Magazine 49, no. 8 (April 1975), p. 70.
Baer, Jo. "Mach Bands: Art Vision and Xerography and Mach Bands." Aspen, no. 8 (Fall–Winter 1970), n. p.
Baer, Jo. "Letters." Artforum 6, no. 1 (September 1967), pp. 5–6.
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| Biography |
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Born in 1929 in Seattle, Jo Baer majored in biology at the University of Washington between 1946 and 1949. She then undertook graduate work in physiological psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York, before moving in 1953 to Los Angeles, where she began her artistic career. Following her return to New York in 1960, she created her first mature work in 1962. Included in key exhibitions launching Minimal art in the early sixties, she began showing widely after her first solo show at the Fischbach Gallery in New York in 1966. In 1975 a midcareer retrospective was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, after which she immigrated to Ireland. Since 1983, she has lived and worked in Amsterdam. In 1999, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam presented a major retrospective of her work.
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| Funding |
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Funding for this exhibition has been provided by Lannan Foundation, The Richard Florsheim Art Fund, and the members of the Dia Art Council.
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