On View
Not on viewObject number2009.30
Color Door
Artist
Charles Hinman
(American, 1932-)
Date1968
Mediumscreenprint
Dimensionssheet: 29 1/2 × 21 3/4 in. (74.9 × 55.2 cm)
image: 24 × 18 in. (61 × 45.7 cm)
mat: 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
image: 24 × 18 in. (61 × 45.7 cm)
mat: 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Collins from the Charles and Charlotte Collins Collection
Exhibition History"A Passion for Collecting: Prints of the 1960s and '70s from the Collins Collection," KIA Galleries 2 & 5 (Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Charles H. MacNider Museum of Art, Mason City, IA (June 24 - August 20, 2016).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (August 25 - November 1, 2020).Label TextColor Door shows Charles Hinman’s early fascination with color theory and geometry. While the dimension of this printed “door” is suggested by the nested colors, Hinman later began to build out his painted canvases, literally adding a third dimension to the picture plane.
Art critic Donald Kuspit wrote that “what Hinman achieves is rare: a romantic constructivism with classical means....[T]he classical emphasizes limits, the romantic emphasizes possibilities....Geometry is the symbol of classicism, color of romanticism. His constructions...[convey]...a romantic faith in impossible possibilities.”
