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Boardman Seymour Green square with blue outlined ink on canvas
Seymour Boardman
19241
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Details
- Age
- 1970
- Style
- Vintage contemporary
- Artist
- Seymour Boardman
- Origin
- Unknown
- Material
- Paint on canvas
- Condition
- Good
- Dimensions
- 6'' H x 8'' W
- Estimated Value
- $500.00
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Research · August 20, 2026
oil paint
The work is made with oil paint and has a painterly surface.
Research · August 20, 2026
black acrylic on white gesso ground
The early 1970s black and white works used only black acrylic on a white gesso ground.
Description
Imported
<p>Purchased from Hudson art dealer, S Boardman 1970</p>
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Other — OCR'd from image-001.png · August 20, 2026 · confidence 0.98
Seymour Boardman was a New York abstract expressionist painter.
Seymour Boardman was born on 29 December 1921 in Brooklyn, NY.
Seymour Boardman died on 3 October 2005 in New York, NY.
Seymour Boardman held his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1951.
As a painter, Seymour Boardman sought to reduce the image to its bare essence.
Other — OCR'd from image-002.png · August 20, 2026 · confidence 0.97
Seymour Boardman is represented in the collection of the Whitney Museum.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the collection of the Newark Museum.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the collection of the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art of Cornell University.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the collection of the Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the collection of the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the collection of Gallery Beyeler, Switzerland.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the collection of New York University, NY.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the collection of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the collection of the Stichting Yellow Fellow Museum, Woudrichem, Netherlands.
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Seymour Boardman had an important one-person show at the Anderson Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1992.
Seymour Boardman had a two-person show at the Shapolsky Gallery with the late Richards Ruben in 1999.
Seymour Boardman died on October 3, 2005 at the age of 84.
In 2010, Anita Shapolsky Gallery presented the exhibition Modern Sensibilities: Ernest Briggs & Seymour Boardman.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the Whitney Museum collection.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum collection.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the Newark Museum collection.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art of Cornell University collection.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico collection.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University collection.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the Gallery Beyeler, Switzerland collection.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the New York University collection.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California collection.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN collection.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the Stichting Yellow Fellow Museum, Woudrichem, Netherlands collection.
The work is made with oil paint and has a painterly surface.
Seymour Boardman had an important one-person show at the Anderson Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1992.
Seymour Boardman had a two-person show at the Shapolsky Gallery with the late Richards Ruben in 1999.
Seymour Boardman died on October 3, 2005 at the age of 84.
In 2010, Anita Shapolsky Gallery presented the exhibition Modern Sensibilities: Ernest Briggs & Seymour Boardman.
Seymour Boardman is represented in the collections of the Whitney Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Newark Museum, Herbert Johnson Museum of Art of Cornell University, Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico), Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Gallery Beyeler (Switzerland), New York University, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), and Stichting Yellow Fellow Museum (Woudrichem, Netherlands), among others.
Other — OCR'd from image-006.png · August 20, 2026 · confidence 0.98
Boardman produced a body of black and white work in the early 1970s.
The early 1970s black and white works used only black acrylic on a white gesso ground.
In the early 1970s works, a compositional motive emerged as the image was reduced to its essence.
In the early 1970s works, the painted areas became the negative space while the original white ground became bold jagged lines piercing the blackness.
One of these early black and white paintings received an award.
Boardman's canvas remains flat because of its right-angled edges, but the color planes often seem to bend and twist in space.
The slight roughness of the lines softens the plane edges without lessening the impact of the image, saving the painting from mechanical precision.
The canvases result from explorations of mental expectation and are described as quiet and beautiful.
Boardman's spontaneous works on paper feature energetic, overlapping oil stick marks with a concentration on strong marks maximizing a sense of palpable shallow space.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Boardman's paintings were large with rectangular forms and worked to the edge of the canvas.
In the 1990s, Boardman's works were mostly oil stick, colorful, playful, and expressionistic.
Owner Notes
Owner
Owner reviewed and accepted, as written, the following reading from a Other (image-001.png): Artist: "Seymour Boardman".
Owner
Owner reviewed and accepted this attribution finding, as written, from a research report: The work 'Green square with blue outlined ink on canvas' was made by Seymour Boardman.
Owner
Owner reviewed and accepted this attribution finding, as written, from a research report: Seymour Boardman was a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award.
Owner
Owner reviewed and accepted this attribution finding, as written, from a research report: Seymour Boardman was a recipient of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award.
Owner
Owner reviewed and accepted this attribution finding, as written, from a research report: Seymour Boardman was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Award.
Owner
Owner reviewed and accepted, as written, the following reading from a Other (image-004.png): Artist: "Seymour Boardman".
Owner
Owner reviewed and accepted this attribution finding, as written, from a research report: Seymour Boardman is the maker of the object 'Boardman Seymour Green square with blue outlined ink on canvas'.
Owner
Owner reviewed and accepted, as written, the following reading from a Other (image-004.png): Artist: "Seymour Boardman".
Owner
Owner reviewed and accepted this attribution finding, as written, from a research report: The object is attributed to Seymour Boardman.
Owner
Owner reviewed and accepted this attribution finding, as written, from a research report: The works on paper by Boardman are spontaneous in character.
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