Interactive Timeline of Ary's Artwork

Representational

Palestine Watercolors

Morocco Drawings

Early Abstracts

New York Folio

Drawings

Prints

Early Mexican

Gouaches

Houston-
Cuernavaca

Leyendas

Early Abstracts (1945-1956)

 

Ary's painting had undergone a radical change.

This had been brewing ever since the early part of World War II. Ary was, of course, profoundly shaken by the war, by the enormity and brutality and hideousness of it, and especially by the tragic fate of six million Jews. He was in an emotional upheaval that affected every phase of his being, and of course this included walks we would take in Central Park on Sunday afternoons; we would wind up in some secluded spot and then Ary would give voice to his thoughts and feelings. He would say, "I cannot continue to paint the way I have been doing, I am sure that every creative person will have to make some change. For me, the world of surface realities is no longer paintable. For nothing is as it formerly seemed. It is not the surface of things—the look of things—that is real—it is that which is hidden beneath the surface—an inner reality of some sort that is real. And that is what I must search for. I can no longer set up a still-life, or paint the view of a city street, no matter how much of my own perception and sensitivity I put into the painting. I shall have to dig down deep within myself—back to my subconscious, if possible—and bring out what will be an inner reality."

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Interplay
Interplay
1953,
oil on canvas,
44 x 36 in.,
[Foundation Collection]
Interplay #1
Interplay #1
1953,
oil on canvas,
24 x 19 1/2 in.,
[Private Collection]
Rhythm in Depth
Rhythm in Depth
1953,
oil on canvas,
40 3/4 x 30 3/4 in.,
[Museum Collection]
The Forest
The Forest
1953,
oil on canvas,
44 x 36 in.,
[Museum Collection]
Movement in Space
Movement in Space
1954,
oil on canvas,
45 x 36 in.,
[Foundation Collection]
Untitled catalog #3
Untitled
1954,
oil on canvas,
36 x 44 in.,
[Private Collection]
Crucifixion
Crucifixion
1955,
oil on canvas,
22 1/2 x 17 in.,
[Foundation Collection]
Black, Green, Yellow Structural
Black, Green, Yellow
Structural

1955,
oil on canvas,
16 x 13 in.,
[Foundation Collection]
Majorca
Majorca (Mallorca)
1955,
oil on canvas,
22 x 18 in.,
[Private Collection]
The Studio
The Studio
1956,
oil on canvas,
39 1/4 x 28 5/8 in.,
[Museum Collection]
Carnival
Carnival
c. 1946-47,
oil on canvas,
19 x 23 in .,
[Private Collection]
Composition with Parakeet
Composition
with Parakeet

c. 1950s,
oil on canvas,
[Foundation Collection]
Fragment of Textural Canvas
Fragment of Textural Canvas
c. 1950s,
oil on canvas,
16 x 30 in.,
[Foundation Collection]
Interplay #3
Interplay #3
c. 1950s,
oil on canvas,
22 x 17 in.,
[Private Collection]
Smal Structural
Small Structural
c.1950s,
oil on canvas,
13 x 16 in.,
[Foundation Collection]
Small Structural
Small Structural
c.1950s,
oil on canvas,
16 x 13 in.,
[Foundation Collection]
Small Structural
Small Structural
c.1950s,
oil on canvas,
13 x 16 in.,
[Foundation Collection]
Structural
Structural
c.1950s,
oil on canvas,
30 x 24 in.,
[Foundation Collection]
Variation of Forms
Variation of Forms
c. 1950s,
oil on canvas,
39 1/2 x 49 1/4 in.,
[Private Collection]
Rhythmic Variations
Rhythmic Variations
c. late 1940s,
oil on canvas,
28 x 36 in.,
[Museum Collection]
Unidentified
Unidentified
oil on canvas,
24 x 20 1/4in.,
[Private Collection]
Unidentified
Unidentified
oil on canvas,
24 x 20 1/4 in.,
[Private Collection]

 

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Ary Stillman
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Spirits of the Underworld

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at the University of
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October 7-December 2, 2008

Foundation's Catalog 2007

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