Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to present an exhibition in the Chelsea space of mid-century works by Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and Frank Stella. The exhibition will comprise a focused selection of large-scale paintings by these artists from the late-50s to the early-70s, covering the first wave of stained canvas techniques that would come to be referred to as “Color Field.” While these four artists developed distinctive styles, this exhibition captures a span of time when their diverse explorations in... Read more

Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to present an exhibition in the Chelsea space of mid-century works by Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and Frank Stella. The exhibition will comprise a focused selection of large-scale paintings by these artists from the late-50s to the early-70s, covering the first wave of stained canvas techniques that would come to be referred to as “Color Field.” While these four artists developed distinctive styles, this exhibition captures a span of time when their diverse explorations in painting converged around ideas of a flat picture-plane saturated with pure color which, as Michael Fried wrote in 1965, “addresses itself to eyesight alone.”