This work is available for private viewing at Artnet's headquarters in New York. “I want to get it all. Dark and light, everything. To put as much into my painting as I possibly can. I’d like to ...

Larry Poons, “To Speak” (1987), acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 49 3/4 x 72 1/4 in (all images courtesy of Loretta Howard Gallery) In comparing Jean Dubuffet’s early paintings from the 1950s with ...

If only we could make paintings that look as good as the paint,” Larry Poons once said to me as he contemplated a bucket of unnameable hues loosely swirled together. He sounded wistful, but he ...

Artists have considered the lilies of the field, but few as memorably as Larry Poons. It's a striking accomplishment, especially because he considers them in their absence, creating purely painterly ...

This phenomenally scaled and effervescently vibrant work captures the transformation that Larry Poons experienced in the late 1960s as he drifted further from his semigeometric and proto-Minimalist ...