Location

228A Cleveland Artists

Fun Fact

After losing the use of his right arm in a Siberian labor camp during World War II, Julian Stanczak fled to a Polish refugee camp in Uganda where he learned how to paint and write left-handed.

Description

For more than a half century, Stanczak maintained a distinguished career as an abstract painter interested in perceptual phenomena. Filtered Yellow features hundreds of alternating red and green razor-sharp vertical bands, further energized by a yellow plane that folds back upon itself in complex mirror symmetry along a diagonal axis. As typical of his work, it emphasizes a high level of technical mastery rivaled by few.

Provenance

1969

Purchased from Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY.

1969–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.

Citations

Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969. Mentioned: p. 4 archive.org

Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1969." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 1 (1970): 26. 26 www.jstor.org

McClelland, Elizabeth. "Julian Stanczak." Arts Magazine 51, no. 1 (Jan 1976): 9. 9

Cole, Mark. "Good Vibrations: A New Exhibition Celebrates the Dazzling Op Art Movement Centered in Cleveland." Cleveland Art Members Magazine (Mar/Apr 2011): 7. 7 www.clevelandart.org

Exhibition history

Cleveland Museum of Art, (04//11/2011 - 02/26/2012); "Op Art"

Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).

The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 1982-January 30, 1983).

Contemporary Art and Textiles Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-August 26, 1984).