Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961-1968
Breaking the Mold focuses on paintings from a pivotal time, one of transition from postwar abstract expressionism to new artistic developments. It includes works on paper, paintings, and sculpture by fifty artists including Josef Albers, Richard Diebenkorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis, and Marcel Duchamp.

The Washington Gallery of Modern Art (WGMA) was founded in Washington, DC, on October 28, 1961, to increase the national and international attention given to contemporary art in the nation's capital, with an expressed purpose to exhibit and collect contemporary works of art. In 1968, the museum's collection was sold to the Oklahoma Art Center.

This historically important collection from the former Washington gallery played an important role in the collection and cultivation of contemporary American art movements from the 1950s and 1960s, including late abstract expressionism, color field painting, minimalism, and pop art.

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Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961-1968
Breaking the Mold focuses on paintings from a pivotal time, one of transition from postwar abstract expressionism to new artistic developments. It includes works on paper, paintings, and sculpture by fifty artists including Josef Albers, Richard Diebenkorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis, and Marcel Duchamp.

The Washington Gallery of Modern Art (WGMA) was founded in Washington, DC, on October 28, 1961, to increase the national and international attention given to contemporary art in the nation's capital, with an expressed purpose to exhibit and collect contemporary works of art. In 1968, the museum's collection was sold to the Oklahoma Art Center.

This historically important collection from the former Washington gallery played an important role in the collection and cultivation of contemporary American art movements from the 1950s and 1960s, including late abstract expressionism, color field painting, minimalism, and pop art.

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Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961-1968

Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961-1968

Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961-1968

Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961-1968

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Breaking the Mold focuses on paintings from a pivotal time, one of transition from postwar abstract expressionism to new artistic developments. It includes works on paper, paintings, and sculpture by fifty artists including Josef Albers, Richard Diebenkorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis, and Marcel Duchamp.

The Washington Gallery of Modern Art (WGMA) was founded in Washington, DC, on October 28, 1961, to increase the national and international attention given to contemporary art in the nation's capital, with an expressed purpose to exhibit and collect contemporary works of art. In 1968, the museum's collection was sold to the Oklahoma Art Center.

This historically important collection from the former Washington gallery played an important role in the collection and cultivation of contemporary American art movements from the 1950s and 1960s, including late abstract expressionism, color field painting, minimalism, and pop art.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780911919059
Publisher: Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Publication date: 05/07/2008
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 9.00(w) x 11.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Barbara Rose is an American art historian and critic and author of more than twenty books. The other contributors are Gerald Nordland and Hardy S. George.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgments / Carolyn Hill

When Washington, D.C. Was an Art Capital / Barbara Rose

The Washington Gallery of Modern Art and its Collection (1961-1968) / Gerald Nordland

The Washington Color Painters / Hardy S. George

Alice Denney on the Washington Gallery of Modern Art / Interview by Hardy George on June 27, 2006

Conversations with Walter Hopps, Selections from a Series of Interviews / Conducted by Judith Richardson Markley, March 1988

Chronology

Exhibition Checklist

Bibliography

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