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Walter Darby Bannard (September 23, 1934 – October 2, 2016) was an American abstract painter.
Bannard was born in New Haven, Connecticut and attended Phillips Exeter Academy (class of 1952) and Princeton University, where he struck up a friendship and working relationship with Frank Stella, who was also interested in minimalist abstraction. He was associated with Modernism, Lyrical Abstraction, Minimalism, Formalism (art), Post-painterly Abstraction and Color Field painting.
Bannard was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968.
Bannard’s first solo show was at the Tibor de Nagy gallery in January, 1965 and he had exhibitions there until 1970. He began showing at the Lawrence Rubin Gallery, and then in 1974 at the Knoedler Contemporary Gallery, where he showed for the next 15 years. Currently he shows at the Loretta Howard Gallery and the Berry Campbell Gallery in New York City, the Daniel Weinberg Gallery in Los Angeles and the Center for Visual Communication in Miami, Florida. He has exhibited in numerous museums and galleries nationally and internationally. In Europe, he is exclusively represented by Roberto Polo Gallery in Brussels. Bannard’s last solo exhibition was within the context of Painting After Postmodernism | Belgium – USA, curated by Barbara Rose, and organised by Roberto Polo Gallery in collaboration with the city of Brussels. This venue opened at the historic Vanderborght building in Brussels on September 14th, 2016. Bannard had close to a hundred solo exhibitions, was included in several hundred group shows, and is represented in the collections of all the major New York museums and many others around the world. He was a prolific writer on art with over a hundred published essays and reviews; Bannard has taught, lectured and participated in panel discussions, and has been a Co-chair of the International Exhibitions Committee of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Bannard was Professor and Head of Painting of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Miami. Bannard died in Miami, Florida on October 2, 2016 at the age of 82.
Bannard’s paintings from 1959 to 1965 contained few forms, as little as a single band painted around a field of color, and then developed into somewhat more complex geometric forms by the mid-1960s. The critic Phyllis Tuchman wrote about these works, "These colors are still radiant. And the artist’s pale palette is as uniquely personal today as it was fifty years ago. You can’t even apply a name to his hues."
In the late 1960s the forms dissolved into pale, atmospheric fields of color applied with rollers and paint-soaked rags. He began using the new acrylic mediums in 1970 and his paintings evolved into colorful expanses of richly colored gels and polymers applied with squeegees and commercial floor brooms.
Bannard’s numerous essays appeared in Artforum, Art in America, and many other publications, including museum catalogs. He curated and wrote the catalog for the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of the paintings of Hans Hofmann, at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Bannard’s writings are collected at the Walter Darby Bannard Archive.
Walter Darby Bannard 斑納德·沃爾特·達比（1934年9月23日 – 2016年10月2日）是美國抽像畫家。
班納德出生於康涅狄格州的紐黑文，並出席菲利普斯埃克塞特學院（1952年課程）和普林斯頓大學，並與弗蘭克斯特拉建立了友誼和工作關係，弗蘭克斯特拉也對簡約抽象感興趣。他與現代主義，抒情抽象，極簡主義，形式主義（藝術），後繪畫抽象和彩色油畫相關。
斑納德於1968年被授予古根海姆獎學金。
斑納德是邁阿密大學藝術與藝術史系教授兼繪畫系主任。 Bannard於2016年10月2日在佛羅里達州邁阿密去世，享年82歲。
從1959年到1965年，班納德的繪畫作品幾乎沒有什麼形式，只有一個單一的樂隊圍繞著一個色彩的領域，然後在20世紀60年代中期發展成為更複雜的幾何形式。評論家菲利斯·圖奇曼（Phyllis Tuchman）寫道：“這些色彩仍然光芒四射，而藝術家的蒼白色調與五十年前一樣獨特的個人色彩，你甚至不能用他的色調來命名。
在二十世紀六十年代後期，這些形式融入了蒼白的，大氣的顏色的領域，用滾筒和油漆抹布擦掉。他於1970年開始使用新的丙烯酸類媒介，他的繪畫演變成彩色凝膠和高分子聚合物，塗刷刮刀和商用掃帚。
斑納德的許多散文出現在Artforum，美國的藝術以及包括博物館目錄在內的許多其他出版物上。他在華盛頓特區赫希霍恩博物館（Hirshhorn Museum）為漢斯·霍夫曼（Hans Hofmann）繪畫的第一次全面回顧性展覽策劃和編寫了畫冊。班納爾德的著作收集在沃爾特·達比·班納爾德檔案館（Walter Darby Bannard Archive）中。
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Bannard Walter Darby 斑納德·沃爾特·達比 (1934) Color Field Post-Painterly Abstraction Minimalism Americans
