Joellen Hall ( United States 1921-2006) - Lot 67

Joellen Hall ( United States 1921-2006) The creature Signed and dated "Joellen Rapée 1961". 130 x 170 cm. (Tear) Provenance : -Michel Tapié Collection -Then by descent to the present owner A rare American artist, Joellen Hall was trained by the realist Alexandre Hogue in the late 30s, then by Philip Guston in the early 40s. She then moved to New York, where she attended the Art Student League. In the late '40s, she met her first husband, the Scottish poet Ruthven Todd, and moved closer to the circle of abstract painters such as Stanley William Hayter, before beginning to produce paintings in an abstract expressionist vein in the '50s. SA Birth name Joellen Hall Joellen Hall was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, the second of four daughters of Ruth and Joel Hall.1 In her youth, she demonstrated a creative bent, taking piano and ballet lessons and painting classes with painter Alexandre Hogue before entering college. She attended the University of Iowa for her undergraduate and graduate degrees (earned in 1943 and 1944 respectively), where she studied with Philip Guston.2 After graduation, Hall moved to New York, where she studied at the Art Students League with Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Morris Kantor and Robert Ward Johnson.3 Early in her career, she was noticed by critics in her home state, and won first prize at the Oklahoma Artists' Sixth Annual (1946) for her oil painting Portrait of Greta, which entered the collection of the Philbrook Art Center4. From 1949, Hall frequented Atelier 17, where she met her second husband, Scottish poet Ruthven Todd, who frequently collaborated with Stanley William Hayter.5 Her abstract print Vertical Image, in Hayter's collection of exchange prints, shows Peet experimenting with plate marking using different techniques. She continued to make prints in the early 1950s and engraved the frontispiece of a hand-printed, limited edition copy of Kathleen Raine's Selected Poems (1952)6 . Translated with DeepL.com (free version)