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One
Man Shows by Estaño
Galeria ARS, 1953, Mexico City
Galeria Goldring, 1955, Mexico City
Galeria Arte Moderno, 1956, Mexico City
Delgado Museum, New Orleans, LA, 1954. (Group
show, 3 paintings)
Rudi's Gallery,1956, Houston Texas USA
ACA Gallery, 1957, New York, NYC USA
Gallery New York, 1959, New York, NYC USA
Galerie Internationale, 1961, New York, NYC
USA
Clarksville Galleries, 1978, Upper Nyack, NY
USA
Sala D' Exposicions De La Caixa Laietana, 1991,
Mataro, Spain
Museu De La Marina, 1992, Vilassar de Mar, Spain
Museu Municipal,1993, Vilassar de Dalt, Spain
Press
Reviews about Estaño's artworks and exhibits
"In the Gallery ARS the US painter Stein (Estaño),
a painter who is revealed as being Identified
integrally with the strongest tendencies of
the present Mexican School.... other years various
artists of the US had come to work and exhibit
in Mexico and who, at least until now, have
been less praiseworthy from beyond the Rio Bravo.
To Tell the truth Stein (Estaño) is one of the
best of the North American painters who has
come to Mexico.... It is his desire not to repeat
the best of realism of the past, but to make
a realism more realistic, A realism of his time....in
consequence, new methods of composition, new
material techniques, a new humanism in his creation
gives a sense of the scale of his production."
- P. Fernandez Marquez,
El Nacional, August 16th, 1953
"All
21 pictures displayed at Mexico City's "Gold
Ring Gallery" were executed in pyroxylin or
other plastics on Masonite board. Nearly all....
echoed the world accentuating the bleak, the
terrifying, the stark and tortured plight of
man. Stein's (Estaño's) clouds seemed haunted
by atomic mushrooms, his figures hurtled through
the air like dummies of the Yucca Flat blast
experiments...." -
Time (Latin American Edition), June 20th, 1955
"A
painter already known to our public - Stein
(Estaño) - is exhibiting at present 37 of his
compositions in the "Galeria de Arte Moderno".
A great impulse of extroadinary energy distinguishes
the work of this North American artist. The
most diverse themes, the most original pictures
have been the reason for his vigorous stroke
and grave color with sharp accents. Behind his
paintings is a person who has reached intellectual
maturity by the forces of cruel experiences
- the war perhaps.... It is exceedingly interesting
to discover the enormous restlessness of this
painter in his artistic labors. In the exhibition...one
can see portraits as well as landscapes, studies
of figures, imaginative compositions and the
still-life, all of which is painted in a very
well-handled realism....This is an artist that
is not limited to the painting of only one theme.
He is searching in all fields and he accomplishes
real success...." -
Manana, October 20th, 1956
[Galeria
de Arte Moderno] "The paintings of Stein surge
forth vigorously from the world of masses that
struggles to find its most expressive form.
It is a painting, hard, labored, but it enters
inside the individual by roads of great humanity.
There is a breath of tenderness in these hard
masses of the "Active Figure", "Sleep", and
others painted apparently with the fire of the
stroke of an ax from the depths of the earth....
Underneath an apparent forgetfulness of composition
he plays with spaces and volumes in a form of
discreet intelligence. In the best style of
realism, Stein marks an important milestone
in that school....." -
Janet Granier, Revista De America,
Nov. 3rd, 1956
[Delgado Museum, New Orleans, LA.] "The music
was jazz as it should be played....Then all
went to the exhibition room...to see the collection
of jazz theme paintings....The main criterion
was not, is it superior art? but does it express
the theme? Philip Stein's "Study of Bessie"
does just that. Bessie is painted in bold, simple
style and she has a vigor suggestive of the
music she is singing. Stein has used color discords
rather than harmonies to heighten his effect.
The painting is the best of several good ones
he has on display." -
Alberta Collier, The Times-Picayune New Orleans,
July 18th, 1954
[Rudi's
Gallery, Houston, Texas] "All of Philip Stein's
paintings are realistic but they have a delightful
freedom of style, such a free and sweeping brush
stroke and reflect so much philosophic thought
that the spectator at once puts them in the
contemporary category despite the obviously
classic root...." -
Louis Blackburn, The Houston Press, May 7th,
1956
[ACA
Gallery, New York]: Dore
Ashton, art critic of The New York Times
had written a very positive review of the exhibition
in May 1957 which is now lost.
[Gallery
New York] "The easy fluid style, the social
connotations, the approach to the figure, in
these paintings in Duco, speak for the painter's
association with the Mexican Mural Movement.
But there is, as well, an element of the Romantic
and the Baroque, particularly in the ominous
rolling storm clouds and fleeing figures in
gardens tinged with yellowish light...." -
ARTS, September 1959
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