Larry Poons

Introduction by Michael Fried Text by Barbara Rose, Karen Wilkin, David Ebony, and David Anfam

9 978-0-7892-1341ISBN 780789213419 9 Hardcover · $125 408 pages, including 6 gatefolds 11½ × 11½" 320 illustrations, most in full color ISBN 978-0-7892-1341-9 R WE Artist Monographs October The first book-length monograph on one of the greatest living American painters

Larry Poons (b. 1937) shot to fame while still in his twenties, on the strength of his “dot paintings,” in which dots or ellipses were meticulously arranged on brightly colored fields, creating a rhythmic, pulsating effect. But within a few years, Poons abandoned the hard-edged precision of the dot paintings for an organic mode of abstraction based on vertical drips of flung paint. This marked the beginning of an uncompromising fivedecade evolution that has finally led the artist back to a more intimate mode of painting with brushes—and his own hands. At every stage, Poons’s career has compelled the attention of critics and, in particular, other artists.

This handsome volume, the first full-length monograph on Poons, reproduces almost 300 of his most important paintings in full color, some as spectacular gatefolds. The insightful text—a collaboration between four leading critics and historians—traces the development of his work. Larry Poons is a necessary addition to the library of anyone with an interest in American art.

Michael Fried is the J. R. Herbert Boone Emeritus Professor of Humanities and the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. Barbara Rose (1936–2020) was a prominent art historian and curator whose writings included American Art since 1900 and “ABC Art.” Karen Wilkin, an independent curator and critic, has written extensively on twentieth-century art. David Ebony, a contributing editor of Art in America, is the author of numerous artist monographs. David Anfam is senior consulting curator at the Clyfford Still Museum and director of its Research Center.