Washington "Color School" alive and well?

I like this piece by Emily Lyons for the Washington Spaces blog about how DC's Color School continues to influence today's best young artists.

For a time in the 1960s, the art world was abuzz about DC. Gallerist George Hemphill of Hemphill Fine Arts says of the movement, “In some ways [it] represents the blooming tulip, open avenue, blue sky springtime of Washington.”

Painter Robin Rose says the movement is what drew him to the city as opposed to, say, New York or Los Angeles. He likens DC’s role in modern art to Nashville’s role in music: “It’s a precise strain … it became a regional phenomenon. Washington Color School was the art of Camelot,” he says.

Read more HERE.