1:58 AMClaude responded: Ann Purcell: The Seventies focuses on works from 1975 to 1979, capturing a pivotal transition from Washington D.Ann Purcell: The Seventies focuses on works from 1975 to 1979, capturing a pivotal transition from Washington D.C.'s intellectually charged milieu — shaped by Washington Color School painter Gene Davis and museum visits with Jacob Kainen — to the New York art world's renewed engagement with painting and gesture. Purcell describes her approach as "thinking but not thinking, looseness and freedom along with control," balancing spontaneity and structure in works of brilliant color and physical immediacy. A 1976 solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery affirmed her position, its chief curator praising her "fluidity with a vast range of idioms" and the continually ongoing freshness of her production.
