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

An MoMA retrospective on Jack Whitten is revealing his work to new and wider audiences. His market is more complicated.

This Village Voice review of the Jack Whitten survey at the Museum of Modern Art covers the artist's formal dynamism and evocative subjects.

Find out in “Jack Whitten: The Messenger,” the ... simplified forms of Constantin Brâncuși. In the 1970s, Whitten constructed tools to “develop” his paintings by scraping them with ...

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported that Whitten died ... what you deserved. Jack suffered from racism his whole life, but somehow he didn't let it touch him ...

By Yinka Elujoba Jack Whitten ... t set him apart from artists he considered father figures. It took an innovation, his “slab painting” method in which, in a single motion, he dragged a tool ...

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 innovative techniques ...

Jack Whitten ... its engineers. And Whitten moved beyond the paintbrush, creating art by dragging paint across a canvas with a squeegee, an Afro comb or a large rakelike tool he had made.

Jack Whitten ... of what’s in the show challenges ready definition. Image Whitten at his studio in 1974 with a large rake-like tool that he had made to apply a wide layer of paint to a ...

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 ...