For painter Jack Whitten, “everything was light,” said ... He achieved a creative breakthrough in 1970, when he built a 12-foot-wide tool that allowed him to blur and rake paint across ...

It also misattributed Katy Siegel's quotation about the injustices Whitten faced to Kelly Baum and rendered the title of the exhibit incorrectly. It is "Odyssey: Jack ... then a 12-foot-long ...

The first page of Jack Whitten’s book ... The elusiveness of paint drove Whitten to create the instrument he called the “developer,” a proprietary floor-based tool he used to quickly ...

Can a painting also be a sculpture? Find out in “Jack Whitten: The Messenger,” the retrospective of the American abstractionist on view through Aug. 2 at the Museum of Modern Art. Following ...

Walker curator Eric Crosby with the 1998 Jack Whitten painting "Black Monolith III (For Barbara Jordan)," left, and the 1998 work "Flying High: Betty Carter." (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...