1980 "Windows Drawing I" Abstract Charcoal Drawing on Paper by Joseph M. Wood

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Joseph M. Wood “Windows Drawing I” from 1980 is a charcoal drawing on paper which comes matted and sealed directly … more Joseph M. Wood “Windows Drawing I” from 1980 is a charcoal drawing on paper which comes matted and sealed directly from the family of the artist.

Joseph Miller Wood III (July 6, 1929 - November 10, 2018) was a modern artist who worked in the abstract expressionist style through his nearly forty-year career beginning in the late 1950s. He earned both his BFA and MFA in painting at Yale University studying there from 1956 to 1961 under the tutelage of Josef Albers, James Brooks, and Neil Welliver. He taught studio art at Williams College from 1963 to 1968 and afterwards he taught painting and drawing at Northern Illinois University, retiring from teaching in 1996. He stopped making art in 2000.

Wood described himself as a “colorist” and taught Josef Alber’s relational theory of color throughout his career as an educator. All of his modern abstract paintings (and studies for them) are compositional experiments in the use of color to create the illusion of space and form. less