Bibliography Art Grants Grantees News Contact “My work is basically about calm and light. I like paint to glow and do things. — Martha Alf Select Works Click images to view galleries 1950s

The Martha Alf Foundation was established in 2020 to foster the legacy of Martha Alf’s life and work. The Foundation provides financial resources to nurture the artistic development of visual art students in Southern California.

In the 1970s, Alf achieved national acclaim for her cylinder paintings distinctly depicted in unconventional colors to express a range of emotions. She was inspired by artist Josef Albers’s "Homage to the Square" series, repeating an image from …

Martha Joanne Alf (August 13, 1930 – September 13, 2019 [1]) was an American artist. Her work consists of paintings, drawings and photographs of everyday objects, including pears [2][3] and rolls of toilet paper. [4] Alf was born August 13, 1930, in Berkeley California. [5] . She is the only child of Foster Wise Powell and Julia Vivian Kane.

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As an art student at UCLA in the early 1960s, she took classes with William Brice, Richard Diebenkorn and Lee Mullican. The works presented here range from a self-portrait and landscapes to her most well known works of rolls of toilet paper portrayed with …

Title: Two Bosque Pears. Artist: Martha Alf (American, Berkeley, California 1930–2019 Santa Monica, California) Date: 1986. Medium: Colored pencil on paper. Dimensions: 14 × 17 in. (35.6 × 43.2 cm) Classification: Drawings. Credit Line: Gift of Adam Mekler, 1992. Object Number: 1992.319. Rights and Reproduction: © Estate of Martha Alf.

Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to announce a celebratory retrospective of works by late American artist Martha Alf (1930 - 2019). Opening June 24th, this is the gallery’s inaugural exhibition with the Estate of Martha Alf since announcing representation in 2021.

“The feeling of timelessness and the symmetrically ordered arrangement allow the cylinder to achieve the power of an icon.” Violet, Yellow and Green, 1974. Oil on canvas. Crocker Art …