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"COLOR AS FIELD: AMERICAN PAINTING,
1950-1975"
November 9, 2007-February 3, 2008
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
February 29-May 26, 2008
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
June 20-September 21, 2008
Frist Center for the Visual Arts,
Nashville, TN
The
exhibition will emphasize the artists first associated with Color Field
ideas: Frankenthaler, Louis, and Kenneth Noland. The work of
Jules Olitski, another key member of the initial group of painters who
developed this uniquely American approach to abstraction, will also be
included in depth, along with that of younger painters who shared
similar conceptions of what a painting could be, including Larry Poons
and Frank Stella. The potency of these ideas will be investigated
through the work of a wider range of Color Field painters, including
Jack Bush, Friedel Dzubas, Darby Bannard, Gene Davis, Sam Gilliam, and
Ron Davis, many of whom worked outside of the New York area, who all
discovered room for personal expression in the idea of structuring a
painting with essentially unmodulated expanses of color.
Approximately
40 works.
Fully illustrated catalogue, with essays by Karen Wilkin and Carl Belz,
artists’ biographies and chronology.
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