MOMA pays tribute to a restlessly innovative artist whose life’s work was to give abstraction soul.

The atmosphere is one of quiet negation and cool industrial polish. In this spare context, Jack Whitten’s “Greek Alphabet” paintings practically quiver and dance. That’s striking because ...

This Jack Whitten masterpiece reflects his respect for ... He would marry Mary Staikos, a woman of Greek descent, and for decades they spent the summers in Crete. The artist was fascinated by ...

In the early 1970s, US artist Jack Whitten underwent a dramatic change in his practice ... GL: There was an amazing show of Whitten’s Greek Alphabet paintings at Dia:Beacon in 2022. Those paintings ...

Find out in “Jack Whitten: The Messenger,” the retrospective ... SoHo and Tribeca, and the Greek island of Crete—was as epic as his compositions. The blood and sweat of his personal odyssey ...

Jack Whitten Estate/John Berens ... he pared his palette down to black and white in the minimal and sublime Greek Alphabet series. Later, he began drying and dicing acrylic paint ...

Jack Whitten’s “NY Battle Ground” (1967). The artist once wrote, “How can anyone justify staying in the studio when your people are dying?” Purchase and gift of Sandra and Tony Tamer ...

Four Wheel Drive, 1970, acrylic on canvas Jack Whitten Estate/Courtesy of the Estate and Hauser & Wirth Whitten long spent his summers with his family in Greece—he would sign out of his New York ...

while Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian uncovers nuggets of wisdom in a reissue of Jack Whitten’s studio notebook. We also have a beach-read novel about a curator’s trip to Greece gone awry ...

For painter Jack Whitten, “everything was light,” said Alex Greenberger in ArtNews. The same could be said of many visual artists, of course. But Whitten was “less interested in depicting ...