The force of this unpredictability is immediate: next to the entrance of the first gallery are Whitten’s ‘grey paintings’ ...

Find out in “Jack Whitten: The Messenger,” the retrospective of the American abstractionist on view through Aug. 2 at the Museum of Modern Art ... one who found freedom in the movement ...

For painter Jack Whitten ... But Whitten was “less interested in depicting light than in embodying it in paint,” and that ambition helped make the Black Alabama native “one of the ...

On the seventh floor of the Museum of Modern Art, there is a massive collection titled “Jack Whitten: The Messenger." ...

The American artist moved from the segregated South to the New York art world and beyond as he forged unique processes of painting and sculpting, the textured, totemic results of which are now on view ...