Carolyn Miles and Willem de Looper's 1999 "Untitled" abstraction,
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
"A gift to treasure is an untitled 1999 abstraction by Dutch-born Willem de Looper (1932-2009), a painter associated with the Washington Color School. The 5-foot canvas, given by his wife, Frauke de Looper, and the Atrium Gallery, is dominated by a large, rust-colored polyhedron with de Looper’s trademark slightly curving sides. A faceted gray backdrop echoes the contours of the form, generating a push-pull between flatness and dimension that complicates the work’s relationship to the formalism of the Color School."