Mongolian Prince
Sam Spanier Centenary Celebration (1925-2008)
In 1985 Sam Spanier was elected to the Board of Directors of the Woodstock Artists Association. He received the Association’s Lucile Blanch Award in 1988, and in 2007 was honored by the Woodstock Artists Association with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Sat May 3rd at 5:30 pm at WAAM:
Reception, Tributes, Short Documentary on Sam Spanier
Sun May 4th at 4 pm
Exhibition Opening at Matagiri1218 Wittenberg Rd, Mt Tremper, NY 12457
Tue May 6th Zoom
sharing and film screening (registration required at matagiri.org)
Sat May 10th at 5 pm
Woodstock Library Memories of Sam by his friends
(all events are free and open to the public)
Sam Spanier (1925-2008)
“Romantic, darkly lyrical, the images are shadowed with a tender brooding but emanate a Byzantine richness; the areas of color emerge through films of translucent and semi-opaque tones which smolder and smoke around the lighter, fire-hot passages.”
– Sam Feinstein in a 1955 review of Spanier’s work for Art Digest
One of the 20th century’s great colorists
Spanier’s developing spiritual life is richly reflected in his later work, from the mid-1970s to the final years of his life, and it is even more manifest in the radiant explosion that has occurred of the color and light which were smoldering in the early works. The heavy, obstructing ambivalence of gestural black in the early works has receded to cloisonné lines enclosing figures and forms that range from single Rouault-like portraits and abstract figures, to landscapes redolent with sunlight… moreSam Spanier’s short biograph