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Dieringer, Ernest (1932- 2016)

Oil on Canvas

1962

X1965.06.09

While not widely known today, Dieringer exhibited alongside preeminent artists of the mid-20th-century such as Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, and Frank Stella. Dieringer began his career in association with the Chicago-based Wells Street Gallery in 1957, where he showed his work with other abstract artists such as Robert Natkin and John Chamberlain. The gallery was considered a vanguard space in Chicago for exhibiting abstract artists from the surrounding area who were not yet established. Artists associated with the gallery eventually became known as the Wells Street Group. Due to the success of the gallery, Dieringer and other group members were invited by the Manhattan-based, contemporary art dealer Elin Poindexter to join her gallery in the 1960s.