Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon dog into the Medici treasury or

into the Medici treasury or the Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe) of Dresden

This book accompanies a group exhibition of artworks drawn from the African American quilt collection at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

But for a brief period in the 1960s

developed in collaboration with cultural advisors

As millions of African Americans sought greater economic opportunities and freedom outside of the American South

Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon dog into the Medici treasury orThe first in depth survey of Whitneys endless experimentation with color. The esteemed American painter Stanley Whitney has, for 50 years, created joyful, immersive abstractions characterized by a bold, experimental palette and unique rhythm. Over the last 20 years, he has structured his paintings as loose grids: a consistent framework that frees him to work through seemingly infinite painterly variations and allows viewers to focus not on each