I grew up in an American apartheid,” he said. “Every aspect of my life was dictated by race.” He not only lived through but ...

Tracing Whitten’s artistic development with the largest ever show of his work, the story of an exhibition exploring the lives ...

“When my paintings cease to be challenging, I will simply find something else to do,” Jack Whitten wrote in a 1988 letter to the artist and eminent scholar of African American art David Driskel ...

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 ...

Swann Galleries African American Art department will present Abstract Beauty: The Collection of Patricia Scipio-Brim on Thursday, February 6.

“When my paintings cease to be challenging, I will simply find something else to do,” Jack Whitten wrote in a 1988 letter to the artist and eminent scholar of African American art David Driskell.