Jack Whitten
‘A Recrudescent Interest in Sublime Visions’: On Jack Whitten’s Early Paintings, in 1969
With a show of Jack Whitten’s ’60s paintings at Allan Stone Projects in New York, we turn back to two reviews from the ARTnews archives, from 1969 and 1970, of early shows by the New York–based artist…
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Jack Whitten, Ralph Lemon Win 2015 National Medal of Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts announced the 12 winners of the 2015 National Medal of Arts today. Among them are Jack Whitten and Ralph Lemon, both of whom have recently received a great deal of…
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Through Color
An African-American woman who turned to painting full-time at age sixty-nine, Alma Thomas faced many professional barriers—and overcame them all with her colorful mosaiclike abstractions.
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Hauser & Wirth Adds Jack Whitten to Its Roster, Plans Show for Spring 2017
Following a five-decade retrospective of Jack Whitten’s work that traveled around the United States over the past year and a half, Hauser & Wirth will now represent the New York–based painter, who is…
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An Old-School Painter Adapts to a New World Order: Jack Whitten’s 50-Year Evolution
In 1974, a monolithic, fire-red painting by Jack Whitten debuted in the Whitney’s lobby gallery. Whitten made the painting, titled Sorcerer's Apprentice, by laying the canvas on the floor, dragging a…
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The Year in the Galleries of New York
Plus, a few items elsewhere in the city and a top 7 list from all over
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The Changing Complex Profile of Black Abstract Painters
Long marginalized by their community and overlooked by the art market, African American abstractionists are finally coming into the spotlight
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Expressive Abstraction: An Interview with Jack Whitten
Though painter Jack Whitten dabbled in representation in the 1960s, abstraction has dominated his practice since then. His current show at New York's Alexander Gray Associates (through Oct. 12) offers…
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