Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective
Laguna Art Museum, Grand Central Press
(February 2016)
ISBN 978093531489, LCCN 2015957521
10 x 10 inches, 128-pages

Published in conjunction with
Helen Lundeberg: A Retrospective
Laguna Art Museum
February 21 — May 30, 2016

Helen Lundeberg (1908-1999) was one of California’s most important modernist painters. In 1934 she wrote the manifesto of the Los Angeles-based “Post Surrealist” group, organized with her future husband, Lorser Feitelson. The group aimed to bring a greater sense of order and control to European Surrealism and originally styled themselves New Classicists. By the late 1950s Lundeberg was working on a large scale. She simplified her style into broad, flat areas of color and, though never a pure abstractionist, played a key part in the “hard-edge” tendency in midcentury painting. Bringing Giorgio de Chirico-like ambiguities of space to architectural and landscape compositions, she preserved the enigmatic mood of her earlier, surrealistic imagery. This book accompanies the first major retrospective of her work since her death.

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