Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking

Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking, brought from The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, showcases the American artist’s sketchbooks, notebooks, inventories, and vibrant color swatches to illuminate the systematic process he used to create his lively hard-edge geometric paintings. The presentation in New Mexico, where the artist lived from 1968 until his death in 2009, will be expanded by a dozen additional works from New Mexico Museum of Art’s collection.

Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking at New Mexico Museum of Art will feature over 60 objects, pairing items from Hammersley’s archives (a recent gift to the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles) with seven paintings, including the New Mexico Museum of Art’s recently conserved Couplet #15, 1965 (1968), The Huntington’s See saw #3, 1966, and dozens of other works, including lithographs, silkscreens, and computer drawings from the collections of The Huntington, New Mexico Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Palm Springs Art Museum, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art.