James Weeks (artist)

James Weeks
Born(1922-12-01)December 1, 1922
Oakland, California
DiedJanuary 3, 1998(1998-01-03) (aged 75)
Boston, Massachusetts
MovementBay Area Figurative Movement
SpouseLynn Williams Weeks

James Darrell Northrup Weeks (December 1, 1922 – January 3, 1998) was an American artist and an early member of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.[1] Unlike many artists in the movement, Weeks was never known for painting in a non-representational style, instead using abstraction in the "ideas of painting." He further diverged from his colleagues in the rigidity of his figures, a characteristic that Anita Ventura described as "[painting] not for expression so much as comprehension."[2]

  1. ^ OLIVER, MYRNA (1998-02-20). "James Weeks; Painter Known for Landscapes". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  2. ^ A., Jones, Caroline (1990). Bay Area figurative art, 1950-1965. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. San Francisco, Calif.: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 0520068416. OCLC 21294814.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)