Curated by Robert Flynn Johnson
Richard Pousette-Dart was the youngest of the “irascibles,” but he made up for his late start by working into the early ’90s. His mythical brand of expressionism was sometimes abstract and sometimes figurative, betraying debts to Surrealism and Native American and Oceanic art. Organized by LACMA, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Cincinnati Art Museum, this exhibition is Pousette-Dart’s largest in a museum on the West Coast and will showcase the artist’s transcendental mysticism in fifty drawings from 1940 to 1992, representing his progression through as many styles—from the totemic, which marked his early years, to the abstract black-and-white of his later works—as there were decades of production.
