Albert Kresch is a New York School

New York School

The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s, 1960s in New York City...

 painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. One of the original members of the Jane Street Gallery in the 1930s, he exhibited in later years at Tibor de Nagy Gallery

Tibor de Nagy Gallery

The Tibor de Nagy Gallery is an art gallery in New York City, USA. It was involved in the discovery of many of the Second Generation Abstract Expressionist Movement’s most important artists and also representational artists of the era including Grace Hartigan, Alfred Leslie, Helen Frankenthaler,...

 and Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. He is best known for landscape and still life compositions painted with evocatively rhythmic forms and vibrant colors.

Biography

Born in Scranton, PA, Kresch moved with his family to New York in the 30's. He began studying figure drawing at the Brooklyn Museum, but soon enrolled in the Hans Hoffman School. There he met Leland Bell

Leland Bell

Leland Bell was an American painter.Leland Bell was a self-taught painter whose passion for the discipline of painting has inspired and influenced many. He was also a fierce advocate for artists that he admired like Karl Knaths, Jean Arp, Piet Mondrian, Balthus, Alberto Giacometti, André Derain,...

, Louisa Matthíasdóttir

Louisa Matthíasdóttir

Louisa Matthíasdóttir was an Icelandic-American painter.Matthíasdóttir was born in Reykjavík. She showed artistic ability at an early age, and studied first in Denmark and then under Marcel Gromaire in Paris...

, Nell Blaine

Nell Blaine

Nell Blair Walden Blaine was an American landscape painter and watercolorist.-Life:She studied at the Richmond School of Art....

, Judith Rothschild, Robert De Niro, Sr.

Robert De Niro, Sr.

Robert Henry De Niro, Sr. was an American abstract expressionist painter and the father of actor Robert De Niro.-Life and career:...

, and Virginia Admiral

Virginia Admiral

Virginia Holton Admiral or Virginia De Niro was an American painter and poet. Her former husband was painter Robert De Niro, Sr., and they were the parents of actor Robert De Niro....

 among other artists of note. These friendships proved a source of inspiration throughout much of his life.
In the 40s, he exhibited abstract work in his first two shows at the Jane Street Gallery, at a time when Abstract Expressionism

Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris...

 was gathering steam. He soon embarked, however, on an independent path, inspired by his friend Jean Helion

Jean Hélion

Jean Hélion was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades as a figurative painter...

 to return to representational painting. Friendships with poets Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov

-Early life and influences:Levertov was born and grew up in Ilford, Essex.Couzyn, Jeni Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe, p74 Her mother, Beatrice Spooner-Jones Levertoff, came from a small mining village in North Wales...

, and Frank O’Hara reflect the breadth of his interests. His painting philosophy was a subject of Levertov’s poems “The Dog of Art" and "Kresch's Studio."
Kresch won a Fulbright scholarship in 1953, aided in part by a letter of recommendation from his friend Willem De Kooning

Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands....

. Recent exhibitions of his work at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries won favorable reviews, and he was elected member of the National Academy in 2005.

Public Collections

Everhart Museum

Everhart Museum

The Everhart Museum is a non-profit art and natural history museum located in Nay Aug Park in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1908 by Dr. Isaiah Fawkes Everhart, a local medical doctor and skilled taxidermist. Many of the specimens in the museum's extensive ornithological collection came...

, Scranton, Pennsylvania

Scranton, Pennsylvania

Scranton is a city in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania, United States. It is the county seat of Lackawanna County and the largest principal city in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area. Scranton had a population of 76,089 in 2010, according to the U.S...

National Academy of Design

National Academy of Design

The National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, founded in New York City as the National Academy of Design – known simply as the "National Academy" – is an honorary association of American artists founded in 1825 by Samuel F. B. Morse, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E...

, New York

Wright State University Galleries, Dayton, OH

External links

Hot and Cool, Freedom and Structure: ALBERT KRESCH in conversation with Deborah Garwood and Craig Taylor http://www.artcritical.com/studiovisit/DGCTKresch.htm
Gabriel Laderman

Gabriel Laderman

Gabriel Laderman was a New York painter and an early and important exponent of the Figurative revival of the 1950s and '60s.He studied with a number of leading American painters, including Hofmann, de Kooning, and Rothko....

on Art Al Kresch Essay Accompanying His Show http://gabrielladerman.vox.com/library/post/al-kresch-essay-accompanying-his-show.html
"Albert Kresch: Paintings at Wright State University Art Gallery" by Walter King http://blog.absolutearts.com/blogs/archives/00000302.html