Untitled abstraction (petroglyphs) by Don Paulson
Untitled abstraction (petroglyphs)
Don Paulson
Title
Untitled abstraction (petroglyphs)
Artist
Don Paulson
1933 - 2006 (biography)Year
1959
Technique
oil, gouache, and ink on paper
Image Size
8 x 14 3/8" image and paper size
Signature
pigment signed as "Dawn" Paulson, in image, lower right
Edition Size
1 of 1 unique
Annotations
pigment dated beneath signature
Reference
Paper
"crinkled" brown wove
State
Publisher
Inventory ID
21857
Price
SOLD
Description
Seattle artist and early LGBTQ activist Donald (Dawn) Paulson did this gouache in 1959, before he went to New York and became involved in Pop Art and Andy Warhol's "The Factory", returning to Seattle in 1966.
The abstracted composition evokes the feeling of a cave wall with painted pictographs by ancient civilizations which have been protected from the elements and future mankind for centuries. Traces of creative human existence preserved for history.
Don Paulson often went by the name "Dawn" (such as this painting) among his friends and contemporaries, and, occasionally, "Whitey Boom" in connection with his paintings.