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Julian Lethbridge 960 Fifth 1, 2022

Julian Lethbridge
960 Fifth 1, 2022
Oil and pigment stick on linen
72 x 60 inches

Julian Lethbridge Milton, 2020

Julian Lethbridge
Milton, 2020
Oil and pigment stick on linen
60 x 72 inches

Julian Lethbridge Pendulum, 2018  

Julian Lethbridge
Pendulum, 2018  
Oil and pigment stick on linen
96 x 80 inches

Julian Lethbridge Untitled, 2019

Julian Lethbridge
Untitled, 2019
Oil, printers ink, ink, paper and straw mounted on clayboard
14 x 11 x 1 inches
Framed: 15 1/8 x 12 1/8 x 1 5/8 inches

Julian Lethbridge Untitled, 2019

Julian Lethbridge
Untitled, 2019
Oil, printers ink, paper and straw mounted on clayboard
14 x 11 x 1 inches
Framed: 15 1/8 x 12 1/8 x 1 5/8 inches

Julian Lethbridge Pendulum, 2018

Julian Lethbridge
Pendulum, 2018
Oil and pigment stick on linen
72 x 60 inches

Julian Lethbridge Untitled, 2013

Julian Lethbridge
Untitled, 2013
Oil and pigment stick on linen
60 x 72 inches

Julian Lethbridge The Hudson, 2017

Julian Lethbridge
The Hudson, 2017
Oil and pigment stick on linen
44 x 52 inches

Julian Lethbridge Counterpoint 3, 2016-18  

Julian Lethbridge
Counterpoint 3, 2016-18  
Oil and pigment stick on linen
72 x 60 inches

Biography

Born in Sri Lanka, but primarily raised in England, Julian Lethbridge (1947-) studied at Winchester College (1960-66) and then Cambridge University (1966-1969). Upon graduation, he began a career as a banker, but by 1972 had moved to New York to paint and draw. His first exhibition of paintings and drawings at Julian Pretto Gallery (1988) was followed within the next year by one-person exhibitions at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York and Daniel Weinberg Gallery in San Francisco. Lethbridge's abstraction is cerebral, often based on mathematical or natural principles. Methodically building up his surfaces with pigment, he then incises them with repeated patterns. In the late 1980s and early 1990s Lethbridge limited his work to shades of black and white, mining the richness of monochromatic painting. More recently he has begun to introduce vibrant colors and more gestural brushwork into his paintings. Lethbridge began printing at ULAE in 1989. His work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States and Europe and can be found in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), The Tate Gallery (London), The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), and The National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.). In 1988, Julian Lethbridge was awarded the Francis J. Greenburger Award.