Purple Mekle Lippis
Jules Olitski American, born Ukraine
Not on view
In 1959, Olitski began staining canvas in the manner of Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. Clement Greenberg included Olitski among the artists he grouped together under the rubric “post-painterly abstraction.” Mekle Lippis is Old Scots for “huge lips,” taken from ribald verses by William Dunbar (ca. 1450–ca. 1520).
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