About the artist:

Peter Pinchbeck was an English-born Abstract Expressionist painter who died in his loft in SoHo on September 10, 2000. For over thirty years, he had taught art history, painting, and composition classes at Manhattan Community College. He also wrote the introductions to several catalogues for group shows that he had organized and was a member of the editorial staff of the American Abstract group.

He had studied at the Twickenham College of Art and the Polytechnic Art School, both in London. In 1961, he moved to New York because he was fascinated by the Abstract Expressionist painting that was prevalent there. He began exhibiting his work in East 10th Street Gallery shows and had his first solo exhibition at the Paley & Lowe Gallery in SoHo in 1970.

Much of his painting was influenced by the Russian Constructivists, and he believed that gestural abstract painting with self-evident brushwork created unique experiences of time and space.

His painting of the 1970s and 80s tended to have squarish shapes, and in the 1990s, his work opened up and became much more playful seeming.