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  • About
    • Artist Statement
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  • Recent Work
    • Recent Paintings
    • Recent Drawings
  • History
    • Pictorial History: Home Page >
      • Pictorial History: 1970-73
      • Pictorial History: 1973-77
      • Pictorial History: 1977-79
      • Pictorial History: 1979-82
      • Pictorial History 1982-87
      • Pictorial History: 1987-93
      • Pictorial History: 1993-04
      • Pictorial History: 2005-09
      • Pictorial History: 2010-15
      • Pictorial History: 2016-17
    • Catalogue Raisonné >
      • CATALOGUE RAISONN​É 1970-73
      • CATALOGUE RAISONN​É 1973-77
      • CATALOGUE RAISONN​É 1977-79
      • CATALOGUE RAISONN​É 1979-82
      • CATALOGUE RAISONN​É 1983-87
      • CATALOGUE RAISONN​É 1987-91
      • CATALOGUE RAISONN​É 1992-99
      • CATALOGUE RAISONN​É 2000-04
      • CATALOGUE RAISONN​É-Paintings 2005-09
      • CATALOGUE RAISONN​É-Drawings 2005-09
    • Exhibition History
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  Carl Mehrbach
CATALOGUE RAISONN​É 1979-82
These works were made in the three years immediately following Carl Mehrbach's graduation from Boston University (M.F.A. in painting, May 1979). His primary mentor at Boston University was Philip Guston. In this period Mehrbach made a consistent effort to separate himself from Philip Guston. These works represent Mehrbach's struggle to become free, to become himself.
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"Free at Last!", oil on masonite, 1979
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"Brighton Still Life", oil one canvas, 1979 (remembrance of things past; safe to make in transition.)
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Drawing 12·20·1979, pencil on paper
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Drawing 12·29·1979, pencil on paper, 1979
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"Philip Can't See!", oil on canvas, 1979 (Indicates effort to dismiss Philip Guston's influence.)
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Drawing 01·08·1980, pencil on paper, 1980
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"Suicide!", oil on canvas, 1980
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Drawing 02·01·1980, ink on paper, 1980
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Drawing 02·29·1980, pencil on paper, 1980
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Drawing 03·29·1980, pencil on paper, 1980
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Drawing 05·26·1980, pencil on paper, 1980
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"Death & Friendship", oil on canvas, 1980
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"My Life in a Picture", oil on canvas, 1981
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"Family Matters", oil on canvas, 1981
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"Between Rock & Hard Place", oil on canvas, 1982
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"Impossible Man", oil on canvas, 1982
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"Clear-Eyed Woman", oil on masonite, 1982
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"Men with Questions", oil on canvas, 1982

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