Daniel Herr
Still Life (after Bearden), 2020
oil on canvas
64 x 50 inches
Price: $6,000 / Offered here at: $4,800 sold

Daniel Herr uses the language of abstract expressionism with a contemporary sensibility. Like our last featured artist, Giordanne Salley, Herr attended Boston University for graduate school, where he worked with John Walker.

In Still Life (after Bearden), somewhat unusually for the artist, Herr paints a still life after a painting by Romare Bearden. He writes, “I was looking at still life paintings by major artists and I came across Romare Bearden’s Still Life from 1970. It struck me that he didn’t really paint still lifes, in fact this is the only one by him at all that I could find. He even appeared to base the painting off of a Matisse still life from 1941, Ivy and Flowers. So this is an interpretation of that interpretation, like a student studying a student. I just really love Bearden’s work, though. It speaks to the whole of the New York experience: the chaos, the collage of senses, the ugly beauty.”