Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of abstraction in  American art of the 20th century. He played an essential role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s and 1970s.

Raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Zox studied at the University of Oklahoma and went on to work under the tutelage of modernist Georg Grosz at the Des Moines Art Centre. Zox moved to New York City and established his reputation by the mid 1960's. His studio was located on 20th Street and he was surrounded and inspired by a melting pot of jazz artists, bikers, and boxers.

By the mid 1960s, Zox arrived at his characteristic style, utilizing hard-edge shapes in bold colors to create geometric patterns, which were often created on raw canvas.

“Edmonton” is a quintessential example of his mastery of geometry and color. With a mathematical precision and a subtle approach, Zox flattened colorful triangular shapes onto graph paper.  

Zox's hard-edge geometric creations from the late 1960s and early 1970s are arguably the most important from his oeuvre. Fittingly he had a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1973. Today, numerous museums including the Whitney, The MoMA, the Tate and the Metropolitan all have examples of his work from this era. 

Click here to see another example from Zox’s "Single File" series.

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Untitled (Edmonton)

Signed and dated by the artist. 

Pencil on paper

USA, 1965

17"H 21.5"W (work) 

Framed with plexiglass

Very good condition

Note: this work is sold unframed

Provenance: the estate of Larry Zox