Ward Jackson
Ward Jackson (September 10, 1928 in Petersburg, Virginia – 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, 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 of the College of William and Mary. He then studied with the painter Hans Hofmann.
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Ward Jackson
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- 1928
- Died
- 2004
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- United States
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- painter · printmaker
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Born in 1928, died in 2004.
Work by Ward Jackson is recorded in the collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Vanderbilt Museum of Art and Print Collection.
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- 1.Artist Info - Ward Jackson - David Richard Gallery | New York.
- 2.Ward Jackson collection of the.
- 3.Ward Jackson, 75, Painter and Guggenheim Archivist. The New York Times. 8 February 2004.
- 4.Ward Jackson | Smithsonian American Art Museum. americanart.si.edu.
- 5.Ward Jackson.
- 6.Ward Jackson | MoMA.
- 7.George L. K. Morris: The Years 1945-1975 by George L. K. Morris on Mullen Books.
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