Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski
The exhibition Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski draws together more than thirty significant paintings from public and private collections and highlights important periods and themes from Olitski’s career. This is the first overview of the artist’s paintings since his death in 2007. On view May 20–August 28, 2011 at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the exhibition then travels in 2012 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; and the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. The exhibition was organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and curated by art historians E. A. Carmean Jr., Alison de Lima Greene, and Karen Wilkin. Admission to the Kemper Museum is free. Jules Olitski (1922–2007) first received international acclaim as a Color Field painter and continued to experiment with techniques and processes throughout his career. Together, the exhibition’s works span five decades of Olitski’s creative output. The exhibition’s curators have organized the exhibition in groupings of Stain paintings, Spray paintings, Baroque paintings, High Baroque paintings, and the artist’s Late paintings. Image: Jules Olitski, Prince Patutszky Pleasures, 1962; acrylic on canvas, 89.75 in. x 88 in.; Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Gift of the R. C. Kemper Charitable Trust, 2009.21
