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

“Why Do I Carve Wood?” Jack Whitten posed this question in August 2017. He first saw the African sculpture collections at the Brooklyn and Metropolitan museums, as well as in ...

It is "Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963-2016." Jack Whitten, the African American painter and sculptor who died Saturday at 78, was once given a tour of St. Catherine's Monastery, at Mount Sinai.

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).

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...