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Stanley Whitney

STANLEY WHITNEY
with Phong Bui

Jack knew, no matter what: I’m gonna make great art, I’m going to have a great life. It wasn’t about the New York art world, it wasn’t about money. “I’m gonna have this life no matter what.” And that’s what inspired me—no matter what. Jack as a great painter is inseparable from Jack the courageous human being.

Jack Whitten, <em>USA Oracle (Assasination of M.L. King)</em>, 1968. © Jack Whitten. Courtesy Studio Museum, Harlem NY and Hauser & Wirth.
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JUL-AUG 2020

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