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Tom Boutis

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Tom Boutis
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Born
Thomas Boutis

1922
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died October 29, 2018
U.S.
Alma mater Cooper Union

Thomas Boutis (1922 – 2018) was an American artist, known as an abstract expressionist with a love of color.[1][2][3] He primarily worked in painting, drawing, collage, watercolor, and printmaking.

Biography[]

Tom Boutis was born in 1922 in New York City to parents from Kastoria, Greece.[4][5] He worked as a Federal Art Project artist.[where?][when?] Boutis was drafted by the United States Army in 1943.[4] Boutis attended Cooper Union and graduated in 1948.[4][6] He was a friend of Vincent DaCosta Smith and in the early 1950s Boutis influenced Smith's early career as an artist.[7] His first solo art show was in January 1955 at Zabriskie Gallery in New York City.[4][8] In the 1950s, with artists from the E 10th Street co-op movement, he established the Area Gallery in New York City which was in operation from 1958 until 1965.[5] The original members of Area Gallery were Tom Boutis, alongside artists John Ireland Collins, Charles Steven DuBack, Joe Fiore, Bernard Langlais, Ed Moses, Daphne Mumford, and Paul Yakovenko.[5] Alongside many of the artist from Area Gallery, Boutis was a founding member of the artist-run Landmark Gallery at 469 Broome Street in SoHo,[9] in operation from 1972 until 1982.

Boutis was a National Academician and member of the National Academy of Design, joining in 1995.[10][11] Boutis died on October 29, 2018 at the age of 96.[4] His work is included in many public museum collections, including Art Institute of Chicago,[12] the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum archives,[13] the Smithsonian Archives of American Art,[14] among others.

References[]

  1. ↑ Ashton, Dore (1959-04-16). "Art: Looking Downtown; Shows by Morton Lucks, Tom Boutis and Pat Passlof Among Those on Review" (in en). http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/04/16/80769464.html. 
  2. ↑ Raynor, Vivien (1978-05-12). "Art: Al Held Puts Op In a Hall of Mirrors" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/12/archives/art-al-held-puts-op-in-a-hall-of-mirrors.html. 
  3. ↑ "Paintings and Monoprints on Display at Pine Library" (in en). Shopper News from Paramus, New Jersey. April 24, 1985. p. 43. http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/541689690/. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Tom Boutis". The New York Times. 2018-12-16. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=tom-boutis&pid=191006082. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "A Finding Aid to the Area Gallery Records, 1958-1977, bulk 1959-1964, in the Archives of American Art". https://sova.si.edu//record/AAA.areagall. 
  6. ↑ Lynch, Mary (2018). "2018 In Memoriam" (in en-US). https://cooperalumni.org/2018-in-memoriam/. 
  7. ↑ Patton, Sharon (1990). Vincent D. Smith: Riding on a Blue Note:Monoprints and Works on Paper on Jazz Themes (exhibition catalogue). New York City, NY: Louis Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement. pp. 1970–1972. https://books.google.com/books?id=gMjpAAAAMAAJ. 
  8. ↑ Zabriskie: Fifty Years. New York City, NY: Ruder Finn Press. 2004. pp. 82. ISBN 9781932646153. 
  9. ↑ Shkuda, Aaron (2016). The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950–1980. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. pp. 122. ISBN 9780226334189. https://books.google.com/books?id=3vrTCwAAQBAJ. 
  10. ↑ Price, Marshall N. (2007). The Abstract Impulse: Fifty Years of Abstraction at the National Academy, 1956-2006. Hudson Hills. pp. 22–23. ISBN 9781887149174. https://books.google.com/books?id=W1bynpNf4HQC. 
  11. ↑ "National Academicians" (in en-US). https://www.nationalacademy.org/academicians. 
  12. ↑ "Tom Boutis" (in en). https://www.artic.edu/artists/42411/tom-boutis. 
  13. ↑ "Artist files, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Archives" (in en-US). 2016-12-13. https://www.guggenheim.org/finding-aids/collection/a0008. 
  14. ↑ "Tom Boutis papers, 1951-1979" (in en). https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/tom-boutis-papers-6778. 

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