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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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Long marginalized by their community and overlooked by the art market, African American abstractionists are finally coming into the spotlight
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…
Jack Whitten is an African-American painter who has been working in New York since the 1960s. Carrying the tradition of Abstract Expressionism through the decades, he brings to it his own brand of t…