Mary Pinchot Meyer

Art Brokerage: Mary Pinchot Meyer American Artist: b. 1920-1964. Meyer's large scale, colorful abstract paintings exhibited at Jefferson Place Gallery fit within the modus operandi of the group associated with the Washington Color School. Her highly abstract compositions with flat applications of vibrant color that emit an energy and radiate off the canvas compare to Noland's concentric circle paintings from this time, Morris Louis's Unfurled canvases, and Paul Reed's circles surrounded by fields of color. While at the time of her murder Meyer's work was not commonly included in exhibitions with other artists, her paintings are easily connected to the work of her contemporaries. Meyer was an artist who took her work seriously, and she was part of a tight-knit artistic community. She was an experimental artist who used various materials such as linen and acrylic in her practice. More scholarship on her paintings could determine her role as an influential member of a radical group. Listings wanted.