PAUL JENKINS (1924–2012)

Paul Jenkins, the Abstract Expressionist painter, has died at the age of eighty-eight, reports Randy Kennedy for the New York Times. Jenkins was a prominent member of the Ab-Ex scene in New York after using the G. I. Bill to study at the Art Students League in Manhattan. Jenkins reportedly described himself as an “abstract phenomenist” and once said of his paintings, “I have conversations with them and they tell me what they want to be called.” The Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Art organized a retrospective of Jenkins’s work in 1971. His paintings also appeared in the Paul Mazursky movie An Unmarried Woman, bringing greater American attention to his work.