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Installation view of Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2013

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May 25, 2021

Whitney Museum of American Art – After School Art Club: Jay DeFeo

After School Art Club: Jay DeFeo, Hosted by Whitney Museum of American Art. May 26,…

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Jay DeFeo, 1979 journal entry, March 26 - April 1, 1979

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April 7, 2021

From the Archive: Jay DeFeo’s Birthday March 31st

In honor of Jay DeFeo’s birthday on March 31st, we are pleased to share a…

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March 4, 2021

Courtauld Symposium

Jay DeFeo: A Symposium, The Courtauld Institute of Art. Now postponed until May 28, 2021

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Unknown photographer, Jay DeFeo and Hayward King posing with props at SFAI in what appears to be Studio 13, 1962

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February 17, 2021

A Spirit of Disruption, SFAI

The San Francisco Art Institute kicks off the celebration of its 150th anniversary with A…

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Unknown photographer, Jay DeFeo working on early version of The Rose (known then as The White Rose). Inscribed "For Al and Lerine love Jay."

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January 5, 2021

Jay DeFeo in The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal, January 1, 2021, “Blooming Brilliance on a Grand Scale” By Peter…

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Jay DeFeo, Apparition, 1956

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November 23, 2020

New Video on Jay DeFeo and her Generation

On November 17, 2020, Gagosian hosted a conversation on Jay DeFeo with Los Angeles

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Jay DeFeo, Untitled, 1972

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November 16, 2020

Jay DeFeo: Selected Photographs – Marc Selwyn Fine Art Viewing Room

Marc Selwyn Fine Art presents an online viewing room of Jay DeFeo's selected photographs

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Jay DeFeo, Untitled (Shoetree series), 1977

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November 13, 2020

Gagosian Quarterly – JAY DEFEO’S TRANSCENDENT OBJECTS

Gagosian Quarterly, November 12, 2020, "Jay DeFeo’s Transcendent Objects" By Alice Godwin

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Jay DeFeo, Untitled, c. 1962-71

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November 13, 2020

Jay DeFeo in The Brooklyn Rail

The Brooklyn Rail, November 11, 2020, "Orbits of Known and Unknown Objects: SFAI Histories /…

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"Into View: Bernice Bing" opens this Friday, Octob

"Into View: Bernice Bing" opens this Friday, October 7, at the @asianartmuseum. ⁠
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"Into View: Bernice Bing" celebrates the museum’s recent acquisition of 20 paintings and works on paper that shine a light on an important local Asian American artist who has only recently gained broad recognition for her achievements. These works reveal the evolution of Bing’s remarkable practice, from paintings of the 1950s and 1960s that straddle Abstract Expressionism and figuration to work from the 1980s and 1990s that explores a synthesis of Zen calligraphy and Western abstraction.⁠
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Learn more about the exhibition by clicking the link in our bio.⁠
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[Photographer Unknown, Jay DeFeo, Bernice Bing and Manuel Neri, at DeFeo's 60th birthday party, Oakland, CA, 1989. © 2022 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]⁠
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Join the Whitney Museum of American Art this Frida

Join the Whitney Museum of American Art this Friday, September 23, from 10am-4:30pm for Making Collections Matter: A Symposium.

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This Friday, September 23, you're invited to Making Collections Matter, a day-long symposium about the practice of collecting artwork in museums.

Join curators and scholars from all over the country who are engaged with and thinking critically about museum collecting practices. Speakers will consider how collections are built, who they serve, and how they can be sustainably stewarded now and in the future.

See the full lineup of participants and register to attend either in person or online at the link in our bio.
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Installation view of The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 28, 2019- ). From left to right: Jay DeFeo, The Rose, 1958-66; Norman Lewis, American Totem, 1960; Franz Kline, Mahoning, 1956. Photograph by Filip Wolak

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On this day in 1975, "J. DeFeo: Paintings" opened

On this day in 1975, "J. DeFeo: Paintings" opened at Isabelle Percy West Gallery at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.⁠
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Art critic Charles Shere wrote in the Oakland Tribune, "this small show is footnoted by a series of remarkable photographs she has made which explain some of her paintings' subject matter [. . .] she does for things, whether rags, flaking surfaces of paintings, or enigmatic objects, what Franz Kline did for gestures: transforms them into permanent, weighty, imposing visualizations." ⁠
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[Jay DeFeo, Untitled, 1973, Gelatin silver print,  4 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches, 12.1 x 11.7 cm. © 2022 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]⁠
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To celebrate the recent enlargement of her Oakland

To celebrate the recent enlargement of her Oakland studio in 1984, Jay DeFeo hosted her Mills College students for a class. Shown here is an image of student work on display in the space.

[Photographer Unknown, Mills College students in Jay DeFeo’s new studio addition, surrounded by student work, Oakland, CA, 1984, 35mm slide. © 2022 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

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In August of 1968, the work of Jay DeFeo was on vi

In August of 1968, the work of Jay DeFeo was on view at @sfmoma in "On Looking Back: Bay Area 1945-1962." ⁠ ⁠
This exhibition, curated by John Humphrey, included 25 Bay Area artists including Jay DeFeo, Frank Lobdell, Jess, Richard Diebenkorn, Fred Martin, Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri and Wally Hedrick, among others. Jay DeFeo’s painting "Easter Lily" is visible in the center of this installation view, as well as Wally Hedrick’s kinetic sculpture "Christmas Tree," on the left. ⁠
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[Richard Reisman, Installation view of "On Looking Back: Bay Area 1945-1962," San Francisco Museum of Art, August 10-September 8, 1968, showing "Easter Lily," 1968. © Estate of Richard Reisman]⁠
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Soaking up the last weeks of summer!⁠ ⁠ [Photo

Soaking up the last weeks of summer!⁠
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[Photographer Unknown, Wally Hedrick and Jay DeFeo, Bolinas Beach, c. 1955-59 Gelatin silver print. Collection of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. © 2022 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]⁠
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Jay DeFeo's “Three Mile Island No. 2,” from t

Jay DeFeo's “Three Mile Island No. 2,” from the series “One O’Clock Jump” (1979), is on view in “Evergreen: Art from the Collection” at the @sanjosemuseumofart. "Evergreen" is a newly dedicated gallery space that celebrates the Museum’s collection and provides ongoing access to San José’s only publicly held art collection. An opening celebration will take place this evening, Friday, August 5th from 6-9pm. This event is free and open to the public.⁠
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“Evergreen: Art from the Collection” is on view through Wednesday, December 31, 2025. Visit the link in our bio to learn more.⁠
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[Jay DeFeo, “Three Mile Island No. 2” (“One O'clock Jump” series), 1979, mixed media on paper, 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm). Collection of San Jose Museum of Art. © 2022 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]⁠
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The work of Jay DeFeo is included in "Put It This

The work of Jay DeFeo is included in "Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection" opening this Tuesday, August 2, 2022. This exhibition unites almost a century of work by 49 women and nonbinary artists in a range of media drawn exclusively from the @hirshhorn’s permanent collection. ⁠
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Titled after a 1963 painting by American pop artist Rosalyn Drexler, whose work is featured in the first gallery, “Put It This Way” is organized by Hirshhorn Associate Curator Anne Reeve. The exhibition speaks to traditionally marginalized artists’ decisive and virtuosic achievements, and investigates a wide array of aesthetic, political and historical concerns. Learn more about "Put It This Way" by visiting the link in our bio.⁠
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[Jay DeFeo, "Reflections of Africa No. 7," 1987, Charcoal, acrylic and grease pencil with tape on rag board, 13 x 19 inches (33 x 48.3 cm). Collection of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. © 2022 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]⁠
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In the summer of 1974, Jay DeFeo bought the book “Collages” by Anais Nin.⁠
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“I have just finished it [Anais Nin’s ‘Collages’] Sat. [June] 15 -- How closely I can identify with it & how the ending is the beginning -- All I've done since ‘The Rose’ are like the pages of a collage -- a unit.” ⁠
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- Jay DeFeo, journal entry, June 15, 1974. Archive of The Jay DeFeo Foundation, Berkeley, CA. ⁠
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[Jay DeFeo, "Study for September Blackberries," 1973, Photo collage with paint drips, 7 5/8 x 7 5/8 inches (19.4 x 19.4 cm). Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. © 2022 The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]⁠
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