Description
- Artist Overview He emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid-1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting. A series of formal breakthroughs would soon result in his canonical Drape paintings, which expanded upon the tenets of Abstract Expressionism in entirely new ways.
- Date of Birth and Death b. 1933, d. 2022
- Nationality African American
- Style Suspending stretcherless lengths of painted canvas from the walls or ceilings
- Notable work Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2022)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2018);
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (2011);
J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, Kentucky (1996)
Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, New York (1993)
