He has also distinguished himself as a brilliant colorist, drawing inspiration from his immediate surroundings in places as various as Mexico, the remote islands of the Outer Hebrides, and the dense and dynamic urban fabric of New York, where he has lived and worked for many years. “Over the decades he has pursued a vision that has progressively opened new possibilities for abstraction, often working with deceptively simple compositional structures and on a variety of scales that range from the intimate to the monumental. “Sean Scully is one of the leading painters of our time,” said Timothy Rub, Director Emeritus of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and one of the exhibition curators. The exhibition is on view to the public at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from April 11 to July 31, 2022. Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas charts the artist’s significant contributions to the American and European history of abstract painting as it has developed over the last half-century, while emphasizing the integral relationship between Scully’s paintings, drawings, watercolors, and prints, which are rarely exhibited together.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a major survey of Irish-born American artist Sean Scully, featuring paintings and works on paper from the early 1970s to the present.
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