President Barack Obama awards painter Jack Whitten the 2015 National Medal of Arts during a ceremony in the White House, Sept. 22, 2016, in Washington. It is “Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963-2016.”Jack Whitten, the African American painter and sculptor who died Saturday at 78, was once given a tour of St. Catherine’s Monastery, at Mount Sinai. Jack Whitten. (Copyright Jack Whitten/Hauser & Wirth)In an art world lately bent on rediscovering neglected artists — not all of them deserving — Whitten is the real thing, an artist whose intelligence and ambition seeped into everything he did. (John Berens/Copyright Jack Whitten; Hauser & Wirth)“It’s so wrenchingly unfair,” said curator Katy Siegel, who organized the show with Kelly Baum of the Met.

Source: Washington Post January 22, 2018 21:03 UTC