Artist

Larry Poons

born Tokyo, Japan 1937
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Larry Poons, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0002067
Also known as
  • Lawrence Poons
Born
Tokyo, Japan
Active in
  • New York, New York, United States
Nationalities
  • American
Biography

Painter who established himself as an Op artist with his first one-man show in 1963. By the late 1960s, he began introducing Abstract Expressionist elements into his work.

Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)