Neil Jenney: The Bad Years, 1969–70 French Flying Dragon—among the last of

Flying Dragon—among the last of the monumental works Calder made—exemplifies the artist’s capacity to invest a powerful visual dynamism in his work regardless of scale

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Neil Jenney: The Bad Years, 1969–70 French Flying Dragon—among the last ofThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Neil Jenney: The Bad Years 196970 at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York. It features more than twenty five paintings made by the artist between 1969 and 1970. Jenney began to make the Bad Paintings in the 1960s, referring to them as such after curator Marcia Tuckers 1978 exhibition Bad Painting at the New Museum, New York. These purposefully sketchy, gestural works poked at preconceptions