Emerson Woelffer

 

Manny Silverman Gallery

 

These highly ideal African sculptures alla Giacometti transfigure and complete the early work in the realm of Picasso, which is to say Pollock.

 

A single line vertically modulated suffices for the epiphany. Or two, arguing or declaiming. In another hue, embracing. Even blowing it out both ends (The Orange Juice Man).

Emerson Woelffer
Sun Poet
acrylic on canvas
83¾ x 60¼ inches
1974

Emerson Woelffer
Bucky Fuller
22  x 29 inches
1949

 

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