Lime Line

Artist Dean Fleming (American, born 1933)

Date1965

MediumAcrylic on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 47 3/4 × 66 inches (121.29 × 167.64 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through exchange of the gifts of the Eighth Mid-America Annual Exhibition to the Mid-America Annual Collection, Mrs. A. W. Erickson, Helen Mag Wolcott, and Mr. and Mrs. F. Russell Millin

Object number2009.33

SignedWritten in green paint using a brush: "DEAN FLEMING FEB 65"

InscribedWritten on upper horizontal stretcher in the center in black marker: "Lime Line"

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DescriptionThis painting is composed of hard-edged planes of flat colors configured as abstract geometric patterns based on rectangles, squares and triangles. The colors are black, red, pinks, blue, violet and green.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, September 28, 2008-January 18, 2009, no. 1.

Gallery Label

Lime Line-with its eye-popping colors, dynamic geometry, optical rhythms and spatial complexity-is a far cry from the cool, reductive, stable structures of Minimalism. Dean Fleming was part of a New York group called Park Place. They explored pictorial space, the ideas of Buckminster Fuller (inventor of the geodesic dome), Space Age technology, science fiction, Einstein's Theory of Relativity and related concepts of fourth dimensional space-time. Fleming believed hard-edge abstraction was the language of contemporary culture.

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2009.

Published References

Dean Fleming and David Turner, Dean Fleming: The Energy of Nature, exh. cat. (Colorado Springs: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, c. 1998), 6, (repro.).

Claudine Humblet, La Nouvelle Abstraction Américaine 1950-1970, exh. cat. (Milan: Skira, 2003), 1943, 1947, (repro.).

Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Dean Fleming: Paintings 1992-2004 (Sarasota, Printed by Spotlight Graphics, Inc, 2004), 5, (repro.).

Linda Dairymple Hendersen, Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York, exh. cat. (Austin: Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, 2008): 14, 44, (repro.).

Articulate, Fall 2008, cover.

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