Beautiful Paul Reed acrylic canvas, #12 B 1966, signed on the back, untitled, 36 x 24 inches. frame: 38.5 x 27 inches. Provenance: private owner.
Biography: 1919 - 2015. Paul Allen Reed was born in Washington on March 28, 1919. After graduating from McKinley Technical High School, he studied art for a semester at San Diego State University but, short of money, he returned to Washington to work as a graphic artist at The Times-Herald, taking art classes at the Corcoran School of Art at the same time. He was rejected for military service because of poor hearing.Mr. Reed worked for a short period as a graphic designer with an advertising agency in New York just as Abstract Expressionism was taking off, but he returned to Washington in the early 1950s and started his own design agency. In 1962 he was hired by the newly established Peace Corps to oversee the design of its publications.Mr. Reed had his first solo show in 1963 at the Adams-Morgan Gallery in Washington. The same year, in another solo exhibition, he showed his “Satellite Paintings” at the East Hampton Gallery in Manhattan. These were shaped canvases, each with a smaller companion canvas whose single image appeared to have been thrown off by the rotating, flower-like image of the main canvas.

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