Thornton Willis

© Thornton Willis. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or …
Thornton Willis
© Thornton Willis. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Thornton Willis

American painter, born 1936
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BiographyThornton Willis, born May 25, 1936, is an American abstract painter. He has contributed to the New York School of painting since the late 1960s. Viewed as a member of the Third Generation of American Abstract Expressionists, his work is associated with Abstract Expressionism, Lyrical Abstraction, Process Art, Post minimalism, Bio-morphic Cubism (a term he coined), and Color Field painting.
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