Untitled #6
Description
Exhibited
San Francisco Museum of Art, 1949 group show
San Francisco Museum
of Art label verso
Edward Corbett (1919-1971)
Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1919, Edward Corbett began art studies at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. During World War II, he was drafted into the army and merchant marine. After his discharge, he spent a year in New York, then returned to California to teach at San Francisco State College. He taught at the California School of Fine Arts for five years, along with Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Richard Diebenkorn.
In 1951, Corbett moved to Taos. The year after, his work was included in a group show titled 15 Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. San Francisco Museum of Art curator Susan Landauer commented that if he had remained in New York, he “might now be considered one of the better Abstract Expressionists.” Indeed, Corbett’s work stood out, even alongside the works of Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Clyfford Still. Critic and Art News president Thomas Hess even called him “the most interesting new artist in the show.”
Despite the publicity that followed the exhibition, he left New York shortly after,Try it!
