Smithsonian American Art Museum
Feb. 29 - May 26, 2008
"Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–1975" is the first ever full-scale examination of the sources, meaning and impact of the Color Field movement.
Color Field painting, which emerged in the United States in the 1950s, is characterized by pouring, staining, spraying or painting thinned paint onto raw canvas to create vast chromatic expanses.
These works constitute one of the crowning achievements of postwar American abstract art. The exhibition includes approximately 40 beautiful and impressively scaled paintings by such major figures as Gene Davis, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons and Frank Stella. "Color as Field" presents a remarkable opportunity for viewers to fully comprehend the aims of these artists, view their finest works in close relation to each other and experience the beauty and visual magnetism of their pictorial handling of space and color.
Karen Wilkin, a specialist in 20th-century modernism who has published widely on this period, is the curator of the exhibition. Accompanied by a catalog.
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