Painting Collection Thomas Downing Universal Joint American, 1928-1985 Washington, DC is well known as a center of color field abstraction, and we are proud to have several works by important DC color field artists in our collection. Washington Color School artists Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, and Paul Reed were among the first to experiment with this new form of abstraction in the 1960s. Beyond the Washington Color School, Sam Gilliam and Simmie Knox expanded color field painting to creative new mediums. Thomas Downing, a former student of Kenneth Noland, is a member of the Washington Color School. He departed from his soft-focus style of the late 1950's with the "helix" pictures of 1964, at which time he abandoned his use of thin, often dripped, paint and began using primary colors and shaped, non-rectangular can-vases, as here in Universal Joint. - From the catalogue, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Editor Margy P. Sharpe, 1976. |
  
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