Label TextThe paintings of Paul Jenkins reflect the modern sense of a shifting, unpredictable world of the senses, constantly in the process of metamorphosis. The titles of all these paintings begins with "Phenomena...", indicating their relation to the processes of nature, as well as the sense of accidental discovery. Jenkin's technique is consistent: broad washes of color are flowed across the white canvas, with directions and forms controlled by moving the loose canvas. At some points the colors are run into one another; in other areas washes are laid one over the other. The element of change is suggested also by varied density of color, creating opaque, solid form at one point, and trailing off to a bare mist at another. Source: Bulletin, April 1964.
Exhibition History"Paul Jenkins Retrospective," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Oct. 12 - Dec. 12, 1971, (circulated to: San Farancisco Museum of Art, Jan. 6 - Feb. 27, 1972)
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany, 1964
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, 1963
Published ReferencesDMAC BULLETIN, Apr. 1964, cover ill.
APOLLO MAGAZINE, vol.XCIV, no.117, Nov. 1971, p.415, fig.8
Albert E. Elsen, PAUL JENKINS, Harry N. Abrams, N. Y., 1973, b/w studio ill. pl. no.106, color ill. pl.107
"Paul Jenkins Retrospective," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1971, exh. cat. no.17, ref. p.34, color ill. pl. no.7, p.18
DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER, Mar. 22, 1964, ill.
DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. pp.87-89, b/w ill. pl.63, p.87
Exhibition History"Paul Jenkins Retrospective," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Oct. 12 - Dec. 12, 1971, (circulated to: San Farancisco Museum of Art, Jan. 6 - Feb. 27, 1972)
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany, 1964
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, 1963
Published ReferencesDMAC BULLETIN, Apr. 1964, cover ill.
APOLLO MAGAZINE, vol.XCIV, no.117, Nov. 1971, p.415, fig.8
Albert E. Elsen, PAUL JENKINS, Harry N. Abrams, N. Y., 1973, b/w studio ill. pl. no.106, color ill. pl.107
"Paul Jenkins Retrospective," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1971, exh. cat. no.17, ref. p.34, color ill. pl. no.7, p.18
DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER, Mar. 22, 1964, ill.
DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. pp.87-89, b/w ill. pl.63, p.87
DimensionsOverall: 76 5/8 × 59 in. (194.6 × 149.9 cm)
Accession Number 1964.5
Classificationspainting
SignedPaul Jenkins (l,r acrylic paint)
Inscriptions"Phenomena Alter Tide" Paul Jenkins, Paris, 1963 (verso u,l); "Phenomena Alter Tide" Paul Jenkins 1963 (verso on stretcher bar)
ProvenanceArtist. (Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris); Mrs. Albert D. Lasker; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 1964]
