Larry Zox

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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

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY{{cite web|title=MoMA - The Collection {{!}} Larry Zox (American, 1936 - 2006)|url=http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=6586|accessdate=27 November 2013}}
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY {{cite web|title=Whitney Museum of American Art|url=http://whitney.org/Collection/AllArtists?name=Z|accessdate=27 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203161135/http://whitney.org/Collection/AllArtists?name=Z|archive-date=3 December 2013|url-status=dead}}
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY {{cite web|title=The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Untitled (from the Double Gemini Series)|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/481861?rpp=20&pg=1&ao=on&ft=zox&pos=1|accessdate=27 November 2013}}
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom{{cite web|title=Larry Zox - Tate|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/larry-zox-2186|accessdate=27 November 2013}}
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC {{cite web|title=Hirshhorn Museum|url=http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/search-results/?edan_search_value=Larry%20Zox|accessdate=27 November 2013}}
Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Ma
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Tx
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany, NY{{cite web |title=Empire State Plaza Art Collection |url=https://empirestateplaza.ny.gov/art}}

References

External links

[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/zox_larry.html web listing on Larry Zox includes career, numerous examples of his art, a biography of the artist Artcyclopedia]
[http://americanart.si.edu/search/search_artworks1.cfm?StartRow=1&ConID=27148&format=long&db=onlyart&LastName=&FirstName=&Title=&Accession=&Keyword Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection]
[http://www.stephenhallergallery.com/artists/zox/index.html Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY represents the artist's estate]
[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900E0D8173CF932A25750C0A9639C8B63 New York Times: Art in Review; Larry Zox]
[http://www.wyethalexander.com/#1435970/Larry-Zox Wyeth Alexander, focus on the artist's early, hard-edge work.]

Category:1937 births

Category:2006 deaths

Category:20th-century American painters

Category:20th-century American male artists

Category:American male painters

Category:21st-century American painters

Category:21st-century American male artists

Category:American abstract painters

Category:Drake University alumni

Category:Jewish American painters

Category:American modern painters

Category:People from Colchester, Connecticut