Max Gimblett

Max Gimblett

New Zealand · b. 1935 · Painter, Printmaker

Maxwell Harold Gimblett is a New Zealand and American artist. His work synthesizes postwar American and Japanese art using abstract expressionism, modernism, spiritual… (Wikipedia)

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  1. Max Gimblett, Brave New World, gesso, acrylic and vinyl polymers, ex-74 resin, waterbased size, 23.75 KT rosanoble gold leaf on canvasBrave New WorldArt+Object · NZ$156,910≈ $98,439≈ £81,234≈ €94,535Sign up to see
  2. Max Gimblett, Endlessness - After Shih T’ao, gesso, acrylic and palladium on canvasEndlessness - After Shih T’aoArt+Object · NZ$109,665≈ $63,814≈ £47,651≈ €55,050Sign up to see
  3. Max Gimblett, The Brush of Porfirio Didonna, Swiss gold, red bole clay, polyurethane and acrylic on board, two panelsThe Brush of Porfirio DidonnaArt+Object · NZ$84,490≈ $59,365≈ £44,339≈ €51,856Sign up to see

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Maxwell Harold Gimblett is a New Zealand and American artist. His work synthesizes postwar American and Japanese art using abstract expressionism, modernism, spiritual abstraction, and Zen calligraphy. Gimblett’s work was included in the exhibition The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1869-1989 at the Guggenheim Museum and is represented in that museum's collection as well as the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and the Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki, among others. Throughout the year Gimblett leads sumi ink workshops all over the world. In 2006 he was appointed Inaugural Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, Auckland University. Gimblett has received honorary doctorates from Waikato University and the Auckland University of Technology and was awarded the Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM). He lives and works in New York and has returned to New Zealand over 65 times.

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Born 1935, AucklandOccupation Painter, Printmaker, Sculptor, DraughtsmanWikidata Q15452430 ↗ULAN 500058468 ↗

In the collections of

Art Gallery of New South WalesAuckland Art GalleryMuseum of New Zealand Te Papa TongarewaNational Gallery of AustraliaSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Also known as Maxwell Gimblett, Maxwell Harold Gimblett

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By). See data sources & attribution.

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