He studied art, dabbled as an abstract painter, and drew political cartoons for newspapers.
Abstract painter Bradley Harms, whose studio is located in the neighbourhood, agreed.
Perhaps because Mr Golding is an abstract painter himself, he avoids these extremes.
He began as an abstract painter at CalArts and evolved into representational, folkloric art about a fisherman's family during a teaching stint in Nova Scotia.
Along with some of his failed attempts from the 1950s to be a pure abstract painter, this section features the pivotal "Look Mickey" from 1961.
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Pat Steir, a 74-year-old New York artist who pours paint down her monumental canvases, recalled one summer in 1964 visiting a friend whose father was an abstract painter.
Starting in 1967 Bill and Camille Cosby built a collection of 400 works dating from the 18th through the 20th century and including artists like Bearden, Lawrence, late-19th-century landscape painter Edward Mitchell Bannister, self-taught 20th-century artist Horace Pippin and 1960s abstract painter Alma Thomas.
The Abstract Expressionist painter Clyfford Still numbered his canvases because no words could do them justice.
He started out as a gifted Abstract Expressionist painter.
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Sean Scully, an Irish-born painter who does large geometric abstract oils that look a little like checkerboards, has complained that Saatchi pumped and then dumped his work in the 1980s.
Not long ago it was common to write about modern art, particularly abstract art, as if the work, but not the painter, existed.
Mitchell, the late Chicago-born painter known for splattering strokes and bold colors, operated just outside circles of older abstract-expressionist peers like de Kooning and Pollock.
We also discovered some new names, like Nigerian-born portraitist Toyin Odutola, 27, painter and sculptor Lucien Smith, 23, and Artie Vierkant, 26, a digital artist who makes abstract pieces suffused with light and bright colors, using Photoshop, a large-scale printer and pieces of layered plastic.
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