Oil on canvas, initialed and dated "GD '60" at lower right, inscribed on the verso by the artist and dated 1960, framed.

DOA 25 x 24.75 in.

From the Estate of the Artist

Exhibited:
"Two Modernists Revisited," Kouros Gallery, Jan. 6-29, 2011, New York, NY

This work was painted in 1960, the year the entertainment industry's blacklist ended. In it, Danella references the pamphlet "Red Channels," published in 1950 and listing the targeted entertainment professionals in the broadcast industry.

Danella began his early studies in Utica at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. By the age of sixteen, in 1944, he had moved to NYC and enrolled at the Art Students League. While in NYC he befriended Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin. He later met and impressed Josef Albers, whose geometric abstractions and color studies greatly influenced Danella during the period this painting was completed. Danella went on to influence his own cadre of students, never setting the brush down himself.

$500 - 1,000