The Rice Paper
Mountings
1962-1966
The Rice Paper Mountings
1962-1966
In 1962, Springford’s work shifted to include swaths of bright colors opposing her writhing blacks. Mainly executed on white rice paper, a delicate calligraphic medium that requires thoughtful, rapid execution, her sophisticated integration of vivid colors certainly reflects close study dating back to her Art Students League days. But where her early color work tended towards soft and warm pastel tones, the new work, executed on the bright white rice paper, had a scouring effect.
No less fierce than the calligraphic works, the newer paintings gesture toward a world of things – abstract landscapes and objects in motion. As such they point to the origins of abstract expressionism as well as the earliest examples of Springford’s later Chromatic Pools series of works.
Selected Works
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mounting XVII, c.1962-1963 Acrylic on rice paper mounted on Asian scroll 24 x 47 1/2 in, Exhibited: Springford, 1963, Preston Gallery, NYC, Collection Vivian Springford Archive.
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mounting XVIII, c.1962-1963 Acrylic on rice paper mounted on Asian scroll 24 x 47 1/2 in, 61 x 120.7 cmExhibited: Springford, 1963, Preston Gallery, NYC, Collection Vivian Springford Archive.
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mountings from the Morning Glory series, ca.1965, Collection Vivian Springford Archive.
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mounting, c.1962-1963 Acrylic on rice paper mounted on canvas, 24 x 47 in, Collection Vivian Springford Archive
Vivian Springford, Morning Glory 5, ca.1965
Acrylic on rice paper mounted on canvas, 27 x 27 in, Collection Vivian Springford Archive.
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mounting, c.1962-1963 Acrylic on rice paper mounted on canvas, 24 x 47 in, Collection Vivian Springford Archive
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mounting, Morning Glory Series , ca.1965
Acrylic on rice paper mounted on canvas, 27 x 27 in, Collection Vivian Springford Archive.
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mounting, c.1962-1963 Acrylic on rice paper mounted on canvas, 24 x 47 in, Collection Vivian Springford Archive
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mounting, c.1962-1963 Acrylic on rice paper mounted on Asian scroll 24 x 47 1/2 in, Exhibited: Springford, 1963, Preston Gallery, NYC, Collection Vivian Springford Archive.
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mounting, c.1962-1963 Acrylic on rice paper mounted on canvas, 24 x 47 in, Collection Vivian Springford Archive
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mounting, c.1962-1963 Acrylic on rice paper mounted on canvas, 24 x 47 in, Collection Vivian Springford Archive
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mounting, Morning Glory Series , ca.1965
Acrylic on rice paper mounted on canvas, 27 x 27 in, Collection Vivian Springford Archive.
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mounting, c.1962-1963 Acrylic on rice paper mounted on canvas, 24 x 47 in, Collection Vivian Springford Archive
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mounting CVIII, c.1965-1966 Acrylic on paper, 17 1/4 x 27 in, Collection Vivian Springford Archive.
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mounting, Morning Glory Series , ca.1965
Acrylic on rice paper mounted on canvas, 27 x 27 in, Collection Vivian Springford Archive.
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mounting, c.1962-1963 Acrylic on rice paper mounted on canvas, 24 x 47 in, Collection Vivian Springford Archive
Vivian Springford, Prototype for 1963 Rice Paper Mounting Exhibition Poster at the Preston Gallery, NY, c.1962-1963, Acrylic on paper laid on printed poster, 14 x 22 in, 35.6 x 55.9 cm
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mounting, c.1962-1963 Acrylic on rice paper mounted on canvas, 24 x 47 in, Collection Vivian Springford Archive
Vivian Springford, Rice Paper Mounting, c.1962-1963 Acrylic on rice paper mounted on canvas, 24 x 47 in, Collection Vivian Springford Archive