Esteban Vicente: Portrait of the Artist February 13, 2011

Esteban Vicente's death in 2001 at the age of 97 marked the passing of one of the last surviving members of the first generation of New York School painters. Organized by Alicia Longwell, the Parrish's Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Curator, Art and Education, the exhibition begins with a highly selective overview of works from Vicente's career, including the Parrish's own core collection, augmented with loans to highlight discrete passages in the artist's oeuvre. Featured in the next gallery is a remarkable suite of large-scale color photographs that chronicle a day in the life of the studio, taken in 1993 by Bridgehampton-based photographer Laurie Lambrecht. The dozen images document Vicente's studio practice and form a lyrical visual diary of his artistic practice. Lastly, a selection of some twenty-five works on paper, by his close artist friends, his gallery colleagues, and his students, rounds out the "Portrait of the Artist" and will include works by James Brooks, Chuck Close, Susan Crile, Robert De Niro, John Graham, Balcomb Greene, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Ibram Lassaw, Conrad Marca-Relli, Brice Marden, Mercedes Matter, Robert Motherwell, Alfonso Ossorio, Charlotte Park, Ray Parker, Philip Pavia, Jackson Pollock, Dorothea Rockburne, Mark Rothko, and Wilfrid Zogbaum among others.