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Patrick Heron was not only a leading abstract painter but a talented and forthright art critic who championed such contemporaries as Keith Vaughan and Roger Hilton. Heron’s conversion to fully abstract painting came about in 1956, shortly after the influential exhibition Modern Art in the United States opened at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. The shift from figuration to abstraction brought with it 'a sense of freedom quite denied me while I had to keep half an eye on a "subject",' said Heron. Nevertheless, he criticized the dominance of the New York art market and became an ardent advocate for British modernism. Three Cadmiums exemplifies his ambition to establish a 'purely visual experience' through a bold use of color and simplified forms.
Title
Three Cadmiums: January–April 1966
Date
1966
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 152.4 x W 182.9 cm
Accession number
B1988.1
Acquisition method
Paul Mellon Fund
Work type
Painting
Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06510-2302, USA,
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