THE DAILY PIC (#1762): This is a very tight close-up on one of the wall-sculptures by the late John McCracken, the pioneering California minimalist. Works from his last decades are now being featured ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the ...

John McCracken was an American Minimalist best known for his Planks, plinth-like reflective sculptures painted in various hues. In order to create the monochrome finish of his works, McCracken used ...

John McCracken, an artist whose fusion of painting with geometric sculpture in the mid-1960s embodied an aesthetic distinctive to postwar Los Angeles, died April 8 in New York. He was 76. The cause of ...