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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Greenberg, Clement. Introduction to “Three New American Painters: Louis, Noland, Olitski,” exh. cat., Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada, 1963.

 

Greenberg, Clement. Post Painterly Abstraction, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 1964.

 

Rose, Barbara. “New York Letter,” Art International VII, April 1964, 57-58.

 

Fried, Michael. “New York Letter,” Art International VIII, May 1964, 40-42.

 

Fried, Michael. Three American Painters: Noland, Olitski, Stella, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1965.

 

​Fried, Michael. “Jules Olitski's New Paintings,” Artforum, vol. 4, Nov. 1965, 36-40.

 

Kozloff, Max. “Frankenthaler and Olitski,” The Nation, vol. 200, April 1965, 374-376.

 

Geldzahler, Henry. “Frankenthaler, Kelly, Lichtenstein, Olitski: A Preview of the American Selections at the 1966 Venice Biennale,” Artforum, vol. 5, June 1966, 32-38.

 

Greenberg, Clement. "Jules Olitski,” in XXXIII International Biennial Exhibition of Art, exh. cat., 1966.

 

Solomon, Alan. “The Green Mountain Boys,” Vogue, vol. 148, Aug. 1966, 104-109; 151-152.

 

Fried, Michael. “Olitski and Shape,” Artforum, vol. 5, Jan. 1967, 20-21​.

 

Olitski, Jules. “Painting in Color,” Artforum, vol. 5, Jan. 1967, 20​.

 

Fried, Michael. “Jules Olitski: Paintings 1963-1967,” exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1967.

 

Champa, Kermit. “Olitski: Nothing but Color," Art News, vol. 66, May, 1967, pp. 36-38; 74-76.

 

Fried, Michael. “Art and Objecthood,” Artforum, vol. 5, Summer, 1967, 12-23.

 

Hudson, Andrew. “On Jules Olitski's Paintings and Some Changes of View,” Art International XII, Jan. 1968, 31-36.

 

​Krauss, Rosalind E. “On Frontality,” Artforum, vol. 6, May 1968, 40-46.

 

Krauss, Rosalind E. Jules Olitski: Recent Paintings, exh. cat., Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1968.

 

​Moffett, Kenworth. “The Sculpture of Jules Olitski,” Artforum, vol. 7, April 1969, 55-59.

 

Olitski, Jules.  “On Sculpture,” Artforum, vol. 7, April 1969, 59.

 

Bannard, Walter Darby. “Quality, Style and Olitski,” Artforum, vol. 11, Oct. 1972, 64-67.

 

Elderfield, John. “Painterliness Redefined: Jules Olitski and Recent Abstract Art, Part I,” Art International XVI, Dec. 1972, 22-25.

 

Carpenter, Kenneth. “On Order in the Paintings of Jules Olitski,” Art International XVI, Dec. 1972, 26-30.

 

Elderfield, John. “Painterliness Redefined: Jules Olitski and Recent Abstract Art, Part II,” Art International XVII, Apr. 1974, 36-41.

 

Moffett, Kenworth. “Jules Olitski and the State of the Easel Picture," Arts Magazine, vol. 47, March 1973, 42-48.

 

Moffett, Kenworth. Jules Olitski, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1973.

 

Siegel, Jeanne. “Olitski's Retrospective: Infinite Variety,” Art News, Summer, 1973, 61-63.

 

Masheck, Joseph. “The Jules Olitski Retrospective,” Artforum, Sept. 1973, 58-60.

 

Millard, Charles W. “Jules Olitski,” Hudson Review XXVII, no. 3, Autumn 1974, 401-408.

 

Hudson, Andrew. “Jules Olitski: Life Drawings,” Art International vol. XIX, Sep. 1975, 39-49.

 

Carmean, E.A. “Olitski, Cubism and Transparency,” Arts Magazine, Nov. 1975, 53-57.

 

Moffett, Kenworth. Jules Olitski: New Sculpture, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1977.

 

Ashbery, John. “Cheering Up Our Knowing,” New York Magazine, April 10, 1978, 69-71.

 

Marshall, Neil. Jules Olitski: New Paintings, exh. cat., Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, 1978.


Fenton, Terry. Jules Olitski and the Tradition of Oil Painting, exh. cat., Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 1979.

 

Pleynet, Marcelin. “Jules Olitski: the Challenge of Abstraction," Connaissance des Arts, U.S.  Edition, Oct. 1980. 66-71.

 

Moffett, Kenworth. Jules Olitski (monograph), New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981.

 

Frankenthaler, Louis, Noland, Olitski: Depuis La Couleur, 1958-1964, exh. cat., Centre d'Arts

Plastiques Contemporains, Bordeaux, France. 1981

 

Olitski, Jules. “The Courage of Conviction,” in Phillip L. Berman, ed., The Courage of Conviction. New York: The Center for the Study of Contemporary Belief/Ballantine Books, 1985, 183-192.

 

Olitski, Jules. “My First New York Show,” Partisan Review LVI, no. 1, 1989, 34-44.

 

Tillim, Sidney. “Ideology and Difference Reflections on Olitski and Koons,” Arts Magazine, March 1989, 49-51.

 

Jules Olitski: Communing with the Power, exh. cat., Buschlen-Mowatt Fine Arts, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1990.

 

Rose, Barbara. “Paradise Regained: Jules Olitski's New Paintings,” in Jules Olitski: Recent Paintings, exh. cat., Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY, 1993.

 

Bannard, Walter Darby. Jules Olitski at the New Gallery, exh. cat., The New Gallery, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 1994.

 

Wilkin, Karen and Guenther, Bruce. Clement Greenberg: A Critic’s Collection, exh. cat., Portland Art Museum and Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 2001.

 

Olitski Jules, “How My Art Gets Made,” Partisan Review vol. 68, no. 4, Fall 2001, 617-623.

 

Olitski, Jules. “Barley Soup and Art—High and Low,” in “Symposium: What Happened to the Arts?” Partisan Review, vol. 69, no. 4, Fall 2002, 606-635.

 

Poster, Lauren, ed. Jules Olitski: The New Hampshire Exhibits, Autumn 2003. Marlboro, VT: Four Forty, 2003.

 

Belz, Carl. “Jules Olitski's Ongoing Present,” in Matter Embraced: Paintings 1950’s and Now, exh. cat., Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, 2005.

 

Jules Olitski: The Seventies, Painting and Sculpture, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, 2006.

 

Kleeblatt, Norman. “A Culmination of Contradictions: Jules Olitski’s Last Decade,” in Jules Olitski: The Late Paintings: A Celebration, exh. cat., Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, 2007.

 

Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski, exh. cat., Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, 2011.

 

Grimley, Alex. “Things Seen,” in Jules Olitski: Mitt Paintings, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, 2014.

 

Jules Olitski: Color to the Core, exh. cat., Yares Art, New York, NY, 2020.

 

Stephenson, Erin. “The Elusive and Evolving Facture of Jules Olitski,” Facture vol. 5, 2021, 64-87.

 

Grimley, Alex. “An Expression of Order: Jules Olitski’s Traditional Painting,” in Jules Olitski: 100 Years, 100 Paintings: A Centennial Exhibition, exh. cat., Yares Art, New York, NY, 2023.

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