Paul Jenkins, painter and writer: born Kansas City 12 July 1923; married firstly Esther Ebenhoe, secondly Alice Baber, thirdly Suzanne Donnelly; one daughter; died New York City 9 June 2012.

Though its happenstance effects make for pleasurable viewing, this is a far cry from Zen in the art of painting. Paul Jenkins, Phenomena Samothrace Arch, 1973, Acrylic on canvas, Timothy Taylor, New ...

Paul Jenkins was an American abstract artist and member of the New York School. Jenkins’s innovative practice was characterized by his choice to avoid the paintbrush altogether, instead allowing ...

Paul Jenkins, a colorful Abstract Expressionist who came of age during the heyday of the New York School and for several decades carried on its highly physical tradition of manipulating paint and ...

For four years, Jenkins was a student of Japanese American painter, photographer and printmaker Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the Art Students League (NYC), and during those years was drawn to painters Mark ...

The UB Art Galleries is thrilled to present the seminal paintings of Paul Jenkins’ Chapel of Meditation shown in conjunction with the exhibition On the Front Lines: Military Veterans at The Art ...

As Alfred Frankenstein wrote in a review of the artist’s 1971-1972 American retrospective held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: “Paul Jenkins is one of ...

In 1978, Paul Jenkins’s painting “Rain Palace” could be glimpsed being lowered from a fifth-floor window to the sidewalk below in Paul Mazursky’s film An Unmarried Woman (1978) starring ...

Awarded the silver medal in painting during the 30th Biennial of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His dance-drama,Shaman to the Prism Seen, with his painted decors was presented at the ...