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On view through August, Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s at the Whitney Museum of American Art rounds up paintings created around the 1960s and 1970s that utilize bold, highly saturated tones to evoke intense reactions and perceptions. a time period in which many artists used acrylics, the technical possibilities for a wider range of hues was explored, giving way to the emergence of a new generation of artists, including many women and people of color.all works in the exhibition come entirely from the Whitney’s collection, including works by Alvin Loving, Ellsworth Kelly, Miriam Schapiro and Frank Stella, among others.

Frank Stella (b. 1936), Gran Cairo, 1962. Alkyd on canvas, 85½ x 85½ in. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchase with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art 63.34. © 2019 Frank Stella/artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.