Background
Paul Feeley was born on July 27, 1910, in Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
Paul Feeley was born on July 27, 1910, in Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
In 1931, Feeley moved to New York to study. He studied portrait painting with Cecilia Beaux, figure painting with George Bridgeman and Thomas Hart Benton, and mural painting from 1931-1934.
In fact, in 1934, Feeley joined the Mural Painters Society of New York and became increasingly engaged with mural projects.
From 1934-1939, he would teach at the Cooper Union, where he'd later become the head of industrial design. In 1940, he would join the staff at Bennington College, where he was fundamental in establishing its art department. Aside from a brief hiatus from 1943-1946, when he volunteered for service with the United States Marines, he remained committed to the art of his contemporaries, he exposed his students - Helen Frankenthaler among them - to many of the most significant artists of his time.
Paul helped to organize the first retrospective exhibition of modernist sculptor David Smith, in 1951 and helped with the 1955 Hans Hofmann and the 1952 Jackson Pollock retrospectives which were both organized by Clement Greenberg. Feeley and Greenberg also organized a Kenneth Noland Exhibition at Bennington in 1961.
Feeley was also an important Color Field painter and in the early 1960s he was included in the catalog and exhibition called Post-Painterly Abstraction organized by Clement Greenberg in 1964. Feeley had his first full scale retrospective (held posthumously) at the Matthew Marks Gallery, 2002 in New York City. In 2015 and 2016, the Albright Knox Art Gallery and Columbus Museum of Art held his first museum retrospective, titled "Imperfections by Chance: Paul Feeley Retrospective, 1956-1966."
Alnium
Cheleb
Thera or Pompeia
Ochus
The Sculpture Court
Asmidiske
Cassius
Rouso
Rijo
Untitled
Arpa
Alioth
Remus
Alruccabah
The Other Side
Carthage
Untitled (April 15)
Untitled (August)
Alya
Untitled
Untitled (February 26)
Somara
Sterope
Abstract (Red and Yellow)
Apyu
EL 24
Julius
Portrait of Samuel L. M. Barlow
Etamin
Tenos
Self Portrait
Germanicus
Untitled Watercolor #4
Untitled (Color Radiation from Blue Center)
Untitled
The Carrier
Trajan
Gomelza
Untitled
Untitled
Jack
Minoa
The Psychologist
Ios
Sybaris
Denib El Delphini
Kilroy
Thruway