I grew up in an American apartheid,” he said. “Every aspect of my life was dictated by race.” He not only lived through but ...

That period culminated in “Birmingham 1964”, a work Whitten accurately described as a “wound”. Through a hole gouged out of ...

By M.H. Miller Photographs by Nicholas Calcott FEW ARTISTS ARE as closely associated with Lower Manhattan as Jack Whitten, the subject of a major retrospective opening this month at New York’s ...

In the early 1970s, US artist Jack Whitten underwent a dramatic change in his practice. Moving away from the gestural approach of Abstract Expressionism, Whitten instead developed his own highly ...

A retrospective of the major abstract painter Jack Whitten, at the Museum of Modern Art, blew our reviewer away.

Tracing Whitten’s artistic development with the largest ever show of his work, the story of an exhibition exploring the lives ...

Spotlighting artists like Sam Gilliam, Felrath Hines and Joe Overstreet, “Innervisions” underscores the breadth of Black abstract art since the 1950s.

“When my paintings cease to be challenging, I will simply find something else to do,” Jack Whitten wrote in a 1988 letter to the artist and eminent scholar of African American art David Driskell.