Untitled IV
(1962)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 84.0 × 117.4 cm
- Accession Number
- 1412-5
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1964
© the artist's estate
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- Contemporary Art gallery
Level 3, NGV International - About this work
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A largely self-trained artist, Charles Howard took up painting and drawing in 1926 and held his first solo exhibition the same year. The exhibition was held in the Greenwich Village studio that wealthy sculptor and art patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney had established to support the work of unknown and emerging artists. Howard’s work was highly influenced by European Surrealism and Biomorphism, a type of art inspired by shapes found in nature. Howard was closely involved with the development of Surrealist art in the United States and, following his marriage to British painter Madge Knight in 1934, in the United Kingdom as well. In his later years Howard moved towards a strict minimalism in his compositions, using a restricted palette of black, grey and white paint, as seen here.