Gerome Kamrowski: An Exhibition and Sale of Works, 1938–2003

Gerome Kamrowski was among the first American painters to take up Surrealism. He studied with Hans Hofmann in New York, worked among the European Surrealists who had fled the war, and contributed illustrations to VVV, the Surrealist journal edited by David Hare with André Breton and Marcel Duchamp.

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In his studio in the winter of 1940, he, William Baziotes and Jackson Pollock dripped lacquer across a canvas on the floor. Kamrowski called it "fooling around." He moved to Ann Arbor in 1946 to teach at the University of Michigan.

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He stayed fifty-eight years.

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His work has been at the Metropolitan Museum, Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou and the Philadelphia Museum of Art within the last five years. The Whitney, the Museum of Modern Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts showed him throughout his life.

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This November his paintings, drawings and collage go on view in Ypsilanti, twenty minutes from his Ann Arbor studio. The earliest date from 1938, the latest from 2003. Many have not been shown publicly in decades.