Jack Whitten, the African American painter and sculptor ... not all of them deserving — Whitten is the real thing, an artist whose intelligence and ambition seeped into everything he did.

Respected for his hungry mind and his ceaseless experimentation—but perhaps never fully given his due—Whitten ... ancient Cycladic art and Byzantine mosaics and make sculpture using local ...

For painter Jack Whitten, “everything was light,” said ... Arguably “the most important American artist you’ve never heard of,” Whitten was the rare abstract painter whose work was ...

you could argue that Jack Whitten was an exemplary 20th-century artist. But that thought is too depressing. Whitten (1939-2018) did receive recognition during his lifetime, including a traveling ...

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 ...

Jack Whitten’s “NY Battle Ground” (1967). The artist once wrote, “How can anyone justify staying in the studio when your people are dying?” Purchase and gift of Sandra and Tony Tamer ...

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 ...

Jack Whitten, Black Monolith VII ... more multifaceted understanding of Johnson’s practice—not just as an artist, but as a thinker and philosopher wrestling with the political and spiritual ...

you could argue that Jack Whitten was an exemplary 20th-century artist. But that thought is too depressing. The euphoric occasion for such melancholy reflection is “Jack Whitten: The Messenger ...