At Stroke of Twelve, 1999

Lithograph, 31/200 Image Size:  21 1/4 x 16 3/4" Paper Size:  25 3/4 x 19 3/4" Paul Jenkins (b. 1923) was born in Kansas City, MO and worked in a ceramics factory as a teenager. It was there that he had his initial exposure to the impact of color and the creation of form. He arrived in New York in 1948, intent on becoming an artist. He studied at the Art Students League for three years where he was influenced by two important instructors, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor. His formative years in New York corresponded with the rise of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, and his early career associated him with that movement. However, by the early 1950s he was one of the leaders of the move to Post-painterly Abstraction, experimenting with pouring and flowing pigments and manipulating his canvases. He became very interested in metaphysics, especially the writings of Carl Jung and ideas from the Chinese I Ching, which emphasizes constant change. Jenkins’ art became increasingly