Ray Parker “The Nines”

Washburn Gallery

[Image: Ray Parker "Untitled (No. 279)" (1964) oil on canvas, 24 x 22 in.]

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That image is important in abstract painting is shown by the fact that most abstract painters, throughout the history of abstract painting, have tried to eliminate everything about the painting that refers to anything else. That was, one might say, Mondrian’s life work, to reduce the elements of painting. Finally arriving at horizontal, vertical, all straight lines, three primaries, black and white. - Ray Parker, 1982