REINHARDT, Ad

A college chum of both Robert Lax and Thomas Merton , Reinhardt was, from his professional beginnings, a scrupulous Abstractionist, perhaps the only major American Abstract artist of his generation never to have exhibited representational paintings. His most distinctive early paintings had geometric shapes on a multicolored field, while works of the late forties favored less definite abstract shapes. By 1953, he offered canvases painted entirely in different shades of the...