Author: Corbett , Edward M. (American, 1919-1971)
Title: Contract for the Lithograph ""Untitled" from 10 West Coast Artists by Edward M. Corbett Signed
Description: San Francisco: Collectors Press , 1967. 2 pages, partially handwritten. Signed in ink by artist and printer. Collectors Press no. 107 Corbett exhibited at a gallery in Monterey, sent his canvases off to the San Francisco Art Annual and taught first at San Francisco State Teachers College and then at the San Francisco School of Fine Art. But he was still having a hard time figuring out how to paint. Most of the art activity of the era apparently left him cold. On the international scene, Picasso was turning out instant masterpieces between breakfast and lunch--but Corbett was not a fan. On the other hand, the American social realists, clinging to an outworn style, provided no inspiration. Corbett also hated the dinky little School of Paris still lifes that were pouring out of Europe. The idea of exploring psychological states or archetypal myths through art didn't appeal to him, either. Despite his broodings about the corrupt state of society, he recoiled from unpretty subjects. ("There is enough ugliness and neurosis in the world without putting it down on canvas," he once told his students.) In a few years, he would voice his discomfort with Action Painting, the leading style of Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and others, championed in New York by critic Harold Rosenberg. Provenance: Estate of Ernest F. De Soto. .

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