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=== Early career: 1970–1980 === Scully's first commercial show, at the Rowan Gallery in London, sold out. During this period Scully taught at the [[Chelsea College of Arts|Chelsea College of Art and Design]], and Goldsmith's, while continuing to paint in his Elephant Lane studio in [[Rotherhithe]]. In 1975, at the age of 30, Scully was awarded a two-year [[Harkness Fellowship]] with which he moved to New York.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/bios/scully-bio.htm|title=Sean Scully - Bio|website=American Art - The Philips Collection|access-date=2019-12-15}}</ref> Once in New York, he began to develop important friendships with fellow artists such as [[Robert Ryman]], and others in academic and artistic circles. Scully's response in the 1970s had been to bring the objectives of American [[Minimalism (visual arts)|Minimalism]] together with those of [[Op art]], an important current in Europe, creating works using overlays and “supergrids” that bridged these two artistic movements in a new way.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RY4iBEhepysC&q=sean+scully&pg=PA245|title=The Aesthete in the City: The Philosophy and Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980s|date=1994|publisher=Penn State Press|isbn=978-0-271-04297-8|page=250}}</ref> Once in New York, Minimalism had a strong influence on his work, and for a few years, Scully's palette was reduced to the grey monochrome ‘Black paintings’ series.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://pacpobric.com/pdfs/May-2015-Scully.pdf|title=Sean Scully: THE WANDERER|last=Pobric|first=Pac|date=May 2015|work=The Art Newspaper}}</ref> Scully began working on the series known as ''The Catherine Paintings'' in 1979, while sharing his Duane Street studio with his third wife, the artist [[Catherine Lee (painter)|Catherine Lee]]. The idea behind the series was to choose the important painting Scully produced during each year together, that would then become part of a collection named after her.<ref name="themodern.org">{{Cite web|url=https://www.themodern.org/blog/Seeing-Stripes-Sean-Scullys-Catherine-Series/352|title=Seeing Stripes: Sean Scully's "Catherine" Series {{!}} Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth|website=themodern.org|access-date=2019-12-17}}</ref> This was the beginning of Sean's own private collection of his work.<ref name=":0" />
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