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Artist: Jack Whitten
(1939-2018)
“Whitten’s objects in carved wood and found materials revisit and reclaim the forms, rituals and spirituality of African sculpture.” –Roberta Smith, New York Times
Jack Whitten was one of the most important artists of his generation. His paintings range from figurative work addressing civil rights in the 1960s to groundbreaking experimentation with abstraction in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s to recent work memorializing black historical figures such as James Baldwin and W.E.B. Du Bois.
Whitten began carving wood in the 1960s in order to understand African sculpture, both aesthetically and in terms of his own identity as an African American, and continued developing this practice throughout his life. (from editor)
