CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/11/2025

Skira presents Bonnie Clearwater, David Mirvish and Eric N. Mack launching 'Glory of the World: Color Field Painting'

Tuesday, February 11, at 6 PM, Skira presents the New York launch of Glory of the World: Color Field Painting, 1950s to 1983. Author, curator and Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale director Bonnie Clearwater will appear in conversation with collector David Mirvish and artist Eric N. Mack. Cocktails to follow.

"Color Field" became a convenient, albeit imperfect, term to describe paintings in which vast areas of color are the dominant force. It was not an art movement but rather a cohort of like-minded artists. While the American Abstract Expressionists cleared a path for abstract painting, their achievements also challenged others to create abstraction anew. Experimenting with nontraditional mediums and methods, as well as these artists’ probing of painting’s conventions, led to unprecedented works. The book’s title, Glory of the World, takes its name from the writings of Frank Stella on the influential artist and teacher Hans Hofmann, whose exalted abstract paintings, produced solely through the straightforward manipulation of pigment, were revered by the Color Field painters.

Artists include: Frank Bowling, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Frank Stella, Alma Thomas.

'Glory of the World' book launch
Bonnie Clearwater in conversation with David Mirvish, Eric N. Mack
February 11, 2025, at 6 PM
Chelsea Arts Tower
545 West 25th Street, 7th floor
New York City
RSVP: sam@sammorrispr.com