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FREDDIE STYLES (1944 - )
Summer Rainbow Revisited. Acrylic on gessoed rag paper, 2000. 660x1016 mm; 26x40 inches. Signed and dated in acrylic, lower right recto. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, verso.
Provenance: collection of the artist.
Freddie Styles has referenced nature throughout his later paintings and collages - developing a particularly organic abstraction. In his vivid Summer Rainbow Revisited, Styles displays the inspiration he finds in his experiences outdoors, including the joy in a rainstorm and the ensuing rainbow.
Freddie Styles has been an influential artistic figure in Atlanta for decades. A graduate of Morris Brown College, Styles has produced an extensive body of work in abstraction in both painting and collage over his career. He was an artist-in-residence at Clark Atlanta University, Clayton State University and Spelman College and has been the recipient of numerous purchase awards from the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. He has had numerous solo exhibitions, including at Clark Atlanta University, Hammonds House, Atlanta, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and the Tubman Museum, Macon, GA. His paintings can be found in the collections of the High Museum, Spelman College Museum of Art, Clark Atlanta University and the Paul R. Jones Collection, University of Delaware.
