About
Abstract, Color Field, and Minimalist painter whose best-known works included "Beginning" from 1958 and "Bridge" from 1964 and was one of the founders of the Washington Color School movement.
Before Fame
He attended Black Mountain College on the G.I. Bill, where he met and was influenced by artist Paul Klee. He was introduced to neoplasticism by one of his professors, Ilya Bolotowsky.
Trivia
He used shaped canvases and was known to stain them, not paint them with a brush.
Family Life
He had four children and was married four times. His first wife was Cornelia Langer, his second psychologist Stephanie Gordon, his third art historian Peggy L. Schiffer, and his fourth Architectural Digest editor-in-chief Paige Rense. He also carried on an affair during the 1960s with artist and socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer.
Associated With
He was a student of Josef Albers.
