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| 1537. Emil Bisttram (American, 1895-1976), "Stormy Coast, Maine", c.1968; oil/board, 24" x 32", signed, titled and dated. Highly important member of the Transcendental Painting Group. Bisttram became aware of the theory of dynamic symmetry in painting while studying with Jay Hambridge in the late 1920s. This theory, which highly influenced Bisttram's own work as well as his later teachings, advanced the principal that an ideal composition could be obtained by recognizing the proportional relationship of the golden section and the logarithmic spiral. After working with Diego Rivera for a year in 1931, Bisttram returned to the U.S. and settled in Taos. In 1938, he and Raymond Johnson founded the Transcendental Painting Group, which included artists committed to the nonobjective painting style, as well as the deepening of the spirituality of society through art. The group disbanded in the 1940s, but Bisttram remained in Taos, and continued to cultivate these ideas for the remainder of his career. 10,000-15,000 | |||||||||