Background
Ward Jackson was born on September 10, 1928 in Petersburg, Virginia, United States. He was a son of Julian Bradley Jackson and Evie Allen (Jones) Jackson.
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Guggenheim Museum
Ward Jackson was born on September 10, 1928 in Petersburg, Virginia, United States. He was a son of Julian Bradley Jackson and Evie Allen (Jones) Jackson.
Ward Jackson studied painting at Richmond Polytechnic Institute of the College of William and Mary (present-day Virginia Commonwealth University), graduating with Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1951. The following year, in 1952, he earned Master of Fine Arts degree at the same university. Following graduation from the university, Jackson spent summer, studying painting under Hans Hoffman.
In 1956, Ward Jackson had his first solo exhibition in New York at the Fleischman Gallery and exhibited regularly after that. During the early 1960's, Ward Jackson worked on the creation of a forceful series of black and white compositions, that very boldly relied on the symmetric disposition of forms, while going back and forth between rectilinearity and eccentricity. At the end of the decade, the artist returned to colour and started to create a series of vibrant, deeply hued paintings, that play with flat forms and unusual arrangements.
Since 1955, Jackson worked as an archivist and director of the viewing program at the Guggenheim Museum, a post he held till 1994. In 1967, he presented his series "Black and White Diamonds" at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Also, his works were widely exhibited in New York and throughout the United States, as well as in exhibitions in Germany, Spain and Japan. In 1969, Jackson co-founded and edited a periodical, called Art Now New York, which later became the Art Now Gallery Guide. In 1990, he was appointed a Secretary of the organisation American Abstract Artists, a post he held until his death in 2004.