Attributed to Jack Whitten, it does not have a COA. Medium: acrylic canvas. 18 x 18 inches. Frame: 19 x 19 inches. Provenance: private owner.
Biography: 1939 - 2018. Jack Whitten, an artist who began as an Abstract Expressionist but pushed that genre to new places and explored many others in a long career, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 78.The cause was complications of chronic leukemia, said Andrea Schwan, a publicist speaking for his family. She said he died at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.Mr. Whitten, a black man who grew up in the South as the civil rights movement was gaining steam there, brought those experiences and sensibilities north when he came to New York in 1959. They are evident in many of his works, including a series he called “Black Monoliths” honoring figures like Ralph Ellison and Muhammad Ali.


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