Arthur Hoener
Untitled [retinal abstraction]
pen and ink drawing, 1964, signed and dated lower-left, with a faint off-white wash in the central image, on white wove paper; some light surface toning and a few handling marks in the margin but otherwise in very good condition
image 11 x 10 1/2 inches
sheet 13 x 13 inches
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Arthur Hoener was born in born in Brooklyn in 1933. He studied graphic design at Cooper Union, New York, and then received his bachelor and masters degrees at Yale, where he studied with Josef Albers. He went on to teach at Boston University (where his students included the young Brice Marden, who has spoken in interviews about Hoener's influence); Massachusetts College of Art, where he ran the graphic design department; and also at Hampshire College, MA. He was involved with Timothy Leary in studies conducted at Harvard concerning the effects of LSD on the creative process, and published an illustrated essay on the subject in the summer 1963 issue of "The Harvard Review."