Larry Zox

{{Short description|American painter (1937–2006)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date |1937|5|31}}

| birth_place = Des Moines, Iowa

| death_date = {{death date and age |2006|12|16|1937|5|31}}

| death_place = Colchester, Connecticut

| nationality = American

| known_for = Abstract Painting, colorist

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| movement = Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Geometric abstraction and Lyrical Abstraction

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| awards = 1967 Guggenheim Fellowship

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Lawrence "Larry" Zox (May 31, 1937 – December 16, 2006) was an American painter and printmaker who is classified as an Abstract expressionist, Color Field painter, a Lyrical Abstractionist, and a Hard Edge painter although he did not readily use those categories for his work.

History

Zox was born in Des Moines, Iowa to Oscar and Mildred (née Friedman) Zox, but moved to New York City at an early age. He lived an artist's life, running in the circles of many prominent names in the art world.Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin, High on Rebellion Inside the Underground at Max's Kansas City (1998), p.42, {{ISBN|1-56025-183-2}} In recent years he had relocated to his second home in Colchester, Connecticut. Zox was considered an abstract artist, but more often he described himself as a colorist.

Zox received his education at the University of Oklahoma and Drake University. He studied with George Grosz at the Des Moines Art Center. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. He was Artist-in Residence at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Dartmouth College, and Yale University.

His work has been exhibited in many one-person and group shows including the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City); the Museum of Modern Art (NY); Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York); Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NY). In recent years his work has been exhibited at the Stephen Haller Gallery and the Berry Campbell Gallery in New York City and Rocket Gallery, London. His estate is represented by Berry Campbell Gallery.{{cite web|title=Larry Zox - Info - Berry Campbell Gallery |access-date=20 January 2023|url=https://www.berrycampbell.com/artist/Larry_Zox/info/}}

He died, aged 69, from cancer and was survived by his second wife, the former Virginia King, his two children from his first marriage Alexander and Melinda, a brother Alan Zox, a sister Susan Zox-Smith, and his brother-in law, the painter David R. Prentice among others.[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E7DE1031F933A15751C1A9609C8B63 NY Times, Grace Glueck, Abstract Painter Of Dynamic, Geometric Works]

Selected public collections

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