Ward Jackson (September 10, 1928 in
Petersburg, Virginia
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– February 3, 2004) was an American visual artist most closely associated with
post painterly abstraction and
minimalism, an archivist at the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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, and the co-founder and editor of the publication "Art Now Gallery Guide".
In 1952 he received his bachelor's and MFA from the
Richmond Professional Institute
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of the
College of William and Mary
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. He then studied with the painter
Hans Hofmann.
His opus is known for its diamond shaped works. His work is held in the permanent collections of the
Smithsonian American Art Museum , the
Whitney Museum of American Art
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, and
MoMA, among others.
References
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20th-century American painters
1928 births
2004 deaths
People from Petersburg, Virginia