Munich. Regionalist, abstract, Abstract Expressionist, American Scene. Melting is and oil on canvas that is signed and dated lower right: C.B. 59, and signed, dated (December 1959), and titled on verso. 48 in x 72 in, 49 in x 73 in framed.

Corporate Collection, MN

Cameron Booth is considered a prominent Minnesota artist and an artist that reached an impressive national influence. Cameron Booth taught at the Art Students League in New York City, and at the Minneapolis School of Art. He was important to the local art scene, advocating modernist ideas and methods, and one of his students was James Rosenquist. Earlier he studied under Hans Hoffman and Andre LÕhote, absorbing modernism from his professors and from the Armory Show. His subject matter focused on the landscapes of Minnesota, principally farms. His interest in post-impressionist form elegantly progressed in depictions of familiar, beloved local lands. Beginning in the 1940s, Booth became enthralled in Abstract Expressionism with the intensity of colors spilling across his canvases, including this 1959 painting that utilizes excellent gestural forms upon an enormous canvas. Booth created Melting in his body of work that explored and engaged in Abstract Expressionism. He balanced illusions of deep space, so that no parts visually receded or obtruded, maintaining a flat painted surface. Amidst his time creating abstract subjects, in 1960 Booth described his inner source of art: "Insight replaces sight. The laws of nature replace imitative representation. As a plant grows, as a crystal forms, as the planets move, so develops a painting. By the same laws the poetic mystery of life is suggested." 

Good condition, canvas slightly loose and slight wear to the frame.