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

For painter Jack Whitten, “everything was light ... At MoMA, visitors will see “astonishing” sculptures Whitten created during his summers in Crete as well as plenty of evidence that ...

But that thought is too depressing. The euphoric occasion for such melancholy reflection is “Jack Whitten: The Messenger,” a Museum of Modern Art retrospective opening Sunday (through Aug. 2).

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 ...

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 ...

He arrived in 1960, when the art world was still small enough that ... Four Wheel Drive, 1970, acrylic on canvas Jack Whitten Estate/Courtesy of the Estate and Hauser & Wirth Whitten long spent ...

A Museum of Modern Art retrospective has boosted the artist's profile, but collectors have been chasing his works for years. Jack Whitten. Mirsinaki Blue. (1974). Collection of the Herbert F.

this new survey at MoMA offers an even more expansive and rigorous account of Jack Whitten’s practice. Bringing together more than 175 paintings, sculptures and works on paper, the show traces ...

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 ...