Collection: Harry Nadler

Harry Nadler was an American painter who lived and worked in both New York and New Mexico. He arrived in New York City in 1962, a decade after the peak of Abstract Expressionism, and was deeply influenced by the movement’s legacy. Nadler absorbed the sensuous paint handling and rich color relationships of artists like Paul Cézanne, Arshile Gorky, and Richard Diebenkorn, using their innovations as a foundation for developing his own visual language.

Over time, he began to seek greater geometric structure in his compositions, combining the expressive, tactile qualities of paint with a formal clarity rooted in geometry. This synthesis became a hallmark of his work—a balance of painterly intuition and architectural precision that conveyed both emotional depth and structural power.

Nadler described his process as a convergence of three key elements: "the PHYSICAL: the act of painting, the craft, the process; the INTELLECTUAL: ideas, organization, spatial conditions; the INTUITIVE: expressive quality which is fluid and always changing." He considered his studio practice a means of searching for metaphors for the transcendent, using the act of painting to probe questions of perception and meaning.

His work has been widely exhibited and is represented in major museum and gallery collections throughout the United States and Europe.