A striking vintage exhibition poster featuring the art of Charles Hinman at Donald Morris Gallery. October 20 -- November 17, 1979. Townsend, Birmingham, MI. Hand signed in pencil by artist. From a private collection. Dimensions: 32.25"h x 21.25"w x .75"d (framed). In very good vintage condition. Charles Hinman (1932- ) is an Abstract Minimalist painter, notable for creating three-dimensional shaped canvas paintings in the mid-1960s. In 1964, the Guggenheim Museum organized the show "The Shaped Canvas." Laurence Alloway, the curator of the exhibition decided to focus on two-dimensional Minimal works only, de facto excluding three dimensional as well as Pop art works from this movement. This initial selection has been questioned and broadened over the years by several retrospective group shows that hosted a wider variety of shaped canvases. Frank Stella's 1965 group show "Shape and Structure" immediately refuted Olloway's position by including Charles Hinman's paintings. In 1979, The Visual Arts Museum in New York organized a show named "Shaped Paintings". It opened the scope of the shaped canvas to Pop Art works as well as to three-dimensional shaped canvases. Charles Hinman's work was presented alongside that of Kenneth Noland, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Mangold, Bernard Venet and Tom Wesselmann. In 2014, Charles Hinman was included in the group show "Shaped Canvas Revisited" at the Luxembourg and Dayan Gallery in New York. This exhibition, which celebrated the fifty years of the original Guggenheim show, places Hinman among the fathers of the shaped canvas movement alongside artists such as Lucio Fontana, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella and Tom Wesselmann. In recent years, Charles Hinman's work has garnered increasing attention both for his contemporary as for his "modern" (historic) works.

32.25 x 21.25 x 0.75 in