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Eric Firestone Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition “Elise Asher: The Vintage Years, Paintings of the 1950s and 60s.” This is the first exhibition in New York to survey Elise Asher’s early paintings. In this period, Asher (1912–2004) incorporated calligraphic handwriting and text into clouds of color and brushwork. The personal style of these linear abstractions was Asher’s unique contribution to post-war abstraction. Asher was also a noted poet who published three volumes of poetry in 1955, 1994, and 2000. This exhibition serves to re-introduce Asher’s work, which is both …