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Felrath Hines 1913-1993) studied at The Art Institute of Chicago in the mid-1940's. Later he learned art conservation to support himself. In subsequent decades he worked as a paintings conservator for the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, among other institutions. His friends included James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte and Romare Beardon. Hines was a painter of appealing if not highly original abstractions and a painter who continued to develop within the mainstream parameters of Modernist abstraction for almost four decades. His earliest work was layered, atmospheric arrangements of simple, soft-edged forms in rich, slightly dissonant colors; they call to mind Rothko and Guston.
In the 1950's thru early 1960's his work was often an allover impressionist inspired compositions. Later in the 1960's Hines responded to Color Field painting with simple, flat compositions of circles, horseshoe shapes and flat planes in subtly harmonized hues. And in the late 80's and early 90's, after he had retired from art conservation and was able to paint full time for the first time in his life, he made hard-edged grid paintings inspired by Mondrian that have a percussive opticality and a canny play with spatial illusion.
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