Jack Roth: life and works

Jack Roth (1927–2004), also known as “Rodney Jack Roth”, was an American painter who developed a style as an Abstract Expressionist, and as a Color Field painter.

He was born in Brockway, Pennsylvania. After studying bearing in mind Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and Richard Diebenkorn at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), he traditional a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa in 1952, and a doctoral degree in mathematics from Duke University in 1962. He taught math at Ramapo College in New Jersey, and furthermore taught for brief periods at the University of South Florida and the University of Kentucky. His feign includes several large abstract paintings created by staining raw, unprimed canvas like thinned paint, allowing the colors to soak directly into the weave of the canvas. He was represented by and exhibited at the Knoedler & Co. Gallery in New York City from 1979 to 1986 and was named New Talent Graphic player of the year in 1963 by Art in America upon the suggestion of MoMA curators Dorothy Miller and William S. Lieberman. In 1979 he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and in 1982 he normal a New Jersey Council on the Arts Award.

He exhibited paintings in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum “Younger American Painters” (May 12 to July 25, 1954) – alongside Sonia Gechtoff, William Baziotes, Morris Louis, Richard Diebenkorn, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and others. This was one of the first major exhibitions of Abstract Expressionism at an American art museum, and it traveled to the Portland Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. He in addition to exhibited at MoMA in 1963 and MoMA purchased several works by Roth for its steadfast collections.