Representative work by Stanley Whitney
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Stanley Whitney

b. 1946, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · American · Based in New York, USA; Ridgewood, New Jersey; Solignano, Italy

  • Columbus College of Art and Design
  • Kansas City Art Institute
  • Yale School of Art, New Haven
  • Stacked Color Block Grids
  • Oil on Linen
  • Drawing

Stanley Whitney has spent decades refining a grid of stacked color blocks separated by narrow bands. Long overlooked, his work gained broad recognition for the way color, rhythm and improvisation operate within a stable structure.

Painting; drawing

Gallery Representation

Objects

Artist Films

Major Works

  • 2013Dance the Orange
  • 1996Untitled
  • 2001Untitled
  • 2008Untitled
  • 2016Stay Song
  • 2012Focus
  • 2019By the Love of Those Unloved
  • 2017Nightwatch
  • 2010sAfternoon Paintings
  • 2022How High the Moon

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Interviews & Writing

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