Washington Color School Reconsidered

Alma Thomas, The Azaleas Sway with the Breeze, 1969, acrylic and graphite on can
Alma Thomas, The Azaleas Sway with the Breeze, 1969, acrylic and graphite on canvas (courtesy of Loretta Howard Gallery)

Joanne Mattera blogs about Washington Color Painters Reconsidered at Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, on view through August 1, 2015.

Mattera notes that: "Taking advantage of the newly available acrylic paints at that time, [the Washington Color artists] created geometric compositions, often applying the pigmented polymer directly into unprimed canvas. Their coolly measured work was light years away from abstract expressionist angst."