Barbara Rose, Gerald Nordland, and Hardy S. George

Breaking the Mold focuses on paintings from a pivotal time, one of transition from postwar abstract expressionism to new artistic developments. It includes works on paper, paintings, and sculpture by fifty artists including Josef Albers, Richard Diebenkorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis, and Marcel Duchamp.

The Washington Gallery of Modern Art (WGMA) was founded in Washington, DC, on October 28, 1961, to increase the national and international attention given to contemporary art in the nation's capital, with an expressed purpose to exhibit and collect contemporary works of art. In 1968, the museum's collection was sold to the Oklahoma Art Center.

This historically important collection from the former Washington gallery played an important role in the collection and cultivation of contemporary American art movements from the 1950s and 1960s, including late abstract expressionism, color field painting, minimalism, and pop art.

Barbara Rose is an American art historian and critic and author of more than twenty books. The other contributors are Gerald Nordland and Hardy S. George.

Introduction and Acknowledgments / Carolyn Hill

When Washington, D.C. Was an Art Capital / Barbara Rose

The Washington Gallery of Modern Art and its Collection (1961-1968) / Gerald Nordland

The Washington Color Painters / Hardy S. George

Alice Denney on the Washington Gallery of Modern Art / Interview by Hardy George on June 27, 2006

Conversations with Walter Hopps, Selections from a Series of Interviews / Conducted by Judith Richardson Markley, March 1988

Chronology

Exhibition Checklist

Bibliography

Pub Date: 2008 ISBN: PAPER:    0-911919-05-8    978-0-911919-05-9 Price: Paper: $25.00s Subject Listing: 20th Century Art Bibliographic information: 144 pp., 91 color illus., bibliog., 9 x 12 in. Distributed for: Oklahoma City Museum of Art