Sean Scully

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Sean Scully is an Irish-born American painter renowned for his large-scale abstract works featuring bold, layered stripes and blocks of color.

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Sean Scully canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf abstract artist
contemporary artist
human
painter
artisticStyle color field painting
geometric abstraction
awardReceived Guggenheim Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
citizenship Ireland
United States of America
countryOfBirth Ireland
dateOfBirth 1945-06-30
educatedAt Croydon College of Art
Harvard University
Newcastle University
exhibitedAt Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Kunstmuseum Bern
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Gallery of Ireland
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Tate Britain
Tate Modern
familyName Scully
fieldOfWork painting
givenName Sean
hasWorkInCollection Centre Pompidou
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
surface form: Guggenheim Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
National Gallery of Art
surface form: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Tate
influencedBy Henri Matisse
Irish landscape
Mark Rothko
Piet Mondrian
medieval architecture
movedTo London, England
surface form: London

New York City
movement abstract art
minimalism
Postminimalism
surface form: post-minimalism
name Sean Scully self-link
nationality American
Irish
notableFor large-scale abstract paintings
layered rectilinear compositions
paintings with bold stripes and blocks of color
notableWork Doric series
Landline series
Passenger series
Wall of Light series
placeOfBirth Dublin
residence Germany
New York City
Spain
taughtAt Chelsea School of Art
Cooper Union
Parsons School of Design
Pratt Institute (Brooklyn campus)
surface form: Pratt Institute

Princeton University
theme architecture-inspired structures
emotionally charged abstraction
light and shadow
memory and place
usesMedium oil paint
photography
printmaking
sculpture
watercolor

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The Phillips Collection hasWorkBy Sean Scully
Sean Scully name Sean Scully self-link
Musée de Grenoble hasWorkBy Sean Scully