THOMAS DOWNING | UNTITLED

With his best known motif of stained repetitive circles often in geometric patterns on unprimed canvas, Downing epitomized the Washington Color Field Movement, spearheaded by Kenneth Noland in the 1950s and 1960s and including such artist as Sam Gilliam, Anne Truitt and Alma Thomas. Downing exhibited widely in New York—he mounted solo exhibitions at Allan Stone Gallery in 1962, '67 and '68—Washington D.C., and Massachusetts. His work is in numerous public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.